Of Books and bookshelves

For the want of better things to do when a 3 month old is asleep, I thought of arranging our book shelf. Since the time it had to be moved out of the room that has now become the nursery, it has been in a painful state. Science and fiction sat side by side like einstein and paris hilton! Anyway, i started arranging them, trying to fit them back into the order they were in initially and found out that
1. We have way too many unread books.
2. Even though we've promised ourselves not to buy till we have finished reading what we have, that is never going to happen. I dont think we will ever finish reading all these books in this lifetime(which is quite sad)
3. I divided the books into science, fiction-translations,fiction in english by indian authors(which also includes a couple of german and nigerian authors), english fiction-others, language and literature, travel and history, political science and related topics and finally a miscellaneous section which has weird topics from the rise of the indian rope trick to paulo coehlo stuck in front of an ugly silver tray which I have been trying to hide.
4. Our literature and language section has surprisingly quite a number of books esp on language. Owing to the hubbys passion on the origin of the languages a few yrs back.
5. My favourite is the science and fiction translations closely followed by pol science though I doubt if i am ever going to finish reading a kazantzakis or a chomsky. Maybe we could sell them for their vintage value a few years down the line.
6. Once again, we have way too many books!
But atleast its arranged... Till the next set of books come in!