There is no method to my madness.I separate amarays from boxes and the few snappers i have,but no organization other than that.

Barely. I do have a fast and loose separation by broad genre (comedies here, SF/fantasy/action here, drama here, foreign language here, etc), but no further arrangement. Not alphabetical, actor, director, or anything like that. I do tend to have sequels next to orginals and snappers together in clumps. When asked why, I tell people it's so that when they look through my collection for a specific title, they will see many more alternatives along the way than if it was alphabetized.

I just wanted to point out that standard alphanumeric filing does things a bit differently than the above.

On the Water Front is filed before Once Upon a Time in the West, since as you said in 3, spaces precede 0 in alphanumeric ordering.

Also, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial would be before Ed Wood, Jr. Collection. Acronyms and abbreviations are filed before a word of the same letters. On a side note, numbers in titles are usually spelled out - The Thirty-nine Steps, etc., although for a DVD collection, I could see filing them before the 'A's for ones like 2001.

Articles are ignored, as you said in 5, although I don't see an example in 3. :hscratch: Of course, for a DVD collection, does that mean you would file Das Boot under "b"? Personally, I ignore articles for English language titles, but leave them in for foreign films.

I just re-organized over the weekend. I now have seven sections:

• Theatrical releases - Single titles
• Theatrical releases - Multiple titles (e.g. double features) and Box sets
• TV Series
• Animation
• Musical performances and concerts
• Comedy performances (e.g., George Carlin, Jackie Mason)
• Documentaries (TV and theatrical)

Each section is organized alphabetically.

You're right on all counts. I edited my post accordingly. I may modify my system to spell out numbers and refile abbreviations per your suggestion. I had considered doing that originally but for some reason that I don't now recall decided against it.

The only thing I'm not sure about is treating English and foreign articles differently. It just seems slightly ethnocentric to me. I think I would actually file Das Boot under B. Is that stupid?

I put Das Boot under "B" and El Mariachi under "M".

Everything is alphabetical.

Just because she only has one disc from a certain studio doesn't mean that it shouldn't get its own section. It's just a very small section. :)

by race

Black, White, Chinese, Martian, Kilingon ? :D


I do mine alphabeticaly in 2 sections. Animation and Live Action

by director in order of theatrical release, then i have an alphabetical miscellaneous section for director's i don't particularly care for.

I categorize by genre and then subdivide by sub-genre. For instance I have all of my comedies grouped together, but put particular comedy series (Monty Python, Austin Powers, American Pie, etc.) or writer/directors (Farrelly Brothers, Chris Guest, etc.) together also. In addition I group sub-genres like '80s Teen Comedies or Slasher films together. I find it to be a more intuitive system than going alphabetically or chronologically, since when I zero in on a particular type of film I'm in the mood for, I have all the similar ones right around it. The only problem is making decisions when particular subdivisions step on one another. For instance, should I keep a movie like Christine with my other John Carpenter films or with the Stephen King ones? Or should I keep all of my Westerns together or put my Eastwood Westerns together with other Eastwood DVD's? I suppose if you're the type of person (or your friends & family are) that tend to know exactly what they want to watch, then alphabetically by title is the way to go. On the other hand, if you're not as decisive and tend to want to browse around a bit and find something to watch then going by genre is much easier (especially for friends and family since they can then just peruse your horror section or musical section or whatever to see what you have and what strikes their fancy). You could also compromise and go the route of most big video rental stores and divide first by main genres (Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, etc.) and then arrange the individual titles alphabetically within each genre.

Currently I have 5 separate units I store movies on. Most have 4 rows but 2 of them are larger.

Shelf 1
Action
Action
Drama
My Wife's DVD

Shelf 2
Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Kids Movies

Shelf 3
Multi DVD Sets - 2 DVD sets and larger
Multi DVD Sets - 2 DVD sets and larger
Horror
Sci-Fi

Shelf 4
TV Shows
TV Shows
TV Shows
TV Shows
TV Shows

Shelf 5
Empty
Empty
Box Sets
Box Sets
Misc, Stand-up, Music Videos, Etc.

At the top left of every genre I'll put a series of films. At the top corner of my comedy shelf you'd film all the American Pie films, Ghostbusters films, etc. before you'd move on to the films that have no sequels. It's an odd system but it's faster finding them this way and it is easier to add new titles to my collection.

Alphebetical. Thats the way It will always be, I find it easy to maintain as well as keep it very tidy. I have a friend who just throws them in the shelf in no particular order at all, this confuses me especially since he is an avid collecter such as the rest of us. Oh well personel choice I guess.

Hello Everybody,
I first had all my DVD's organized exactly as they were catergorized on Dvdaficionado.com,
but the problem with that was some DVD's were bigger than other and they all wouldnt fit on the shelf so there would be big gaps on the shelfs. Now I haave then sorted be Keepcase, Snapcase, Collectors Edition, Box Sets, and then TV Shows, all alphabetically of course!!! ; P

In a box cuz I got no more room.

I just drop-kick each one and it stays where it lands. so much less time consuming.

I think there are like 1,000 threads on this already.

Alphabetical with the exception of Schindler's List and Scarface because those cases are just too cool.

Alphabetically

Box Sets & TV Seasons are separate.

why are there so many double and triple threads all of a sudden? are people too lazy? why do so many post in duplicate threads and why don't these close...it gets so freaking redundant seeing the same things over and over and over, it makes the site not fun anymore..for real.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...light=organize

I have two sections. Movies with boobies and movies without boobies. Each section is then alphabetized accordingly.

Damn you beat me to it. My T&A section is the go-to section for those lonely nights... oh so lonely...

Was just purely alphabetical, but that made no sense with the anime collection:
Anime, movies, TV on DVD, collections.

It makes it not fun? It's not like you can't tell what the topic is about without having to go into the thread.

my way