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Originally Posted by Trevor

Now almost everything is strictly alphabetical.

I keep TV shows on one set of bookcases, all alphabetical.

Movies in a separate wall of shelving, all alphabetical except minor things like sequels being together even if the technical titles are different letters.

Same here. Genres are too confusing. Alphabetical gives me enough annoying little problems. I mean, should the Rambo series be under F for First Blood because that's the first movie, or should it be under R for Rambo because that's the common way of referring to the series?

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Originally Posted by sracer

Strange that discs would physically be sorted by genre/category. It is more difficult to find a particular title that way.

I'm assuming you're joking, right? You can't understand why people would sort by genre/category? I can't even fathom having my 1400+ DVDs sorted by anything but genre. I can understand why someone with a smaller collection might put it alphabetically (I used to.) As another person pointed out, most of the time I am looking for a certain genre anyways when I go to watch something.

It would, for sure, take me longer to find a title if I had them all alphabetically rather than by genre. I pretty much know where every movie is based on the genre locations on my shelves. If they were alphabetical, it would take me a lot longer. Of course I could care less, because it takes me much longer to decide on a title to watch anyways! :)