Home library VS Kindle book organization....

#1: I do still have physical books: two large bookcases in the bedroom; I've tried to keep the books gathered by author, esp. with my favorites. There are some that are just stacked there, not really organized. One bookcase is 3 pbks deep & the other is 2 pbks deep (all turned sideways, spine facing out). Then there are the plastic shelves on the opposite corner of the bedroom that are full of boxes & bags of pbks & they're not organized at all! Getting a bit dusty also. So it depends...

#2: I have 2 kindle fires (KF) & they're mostly used for books, altho the newer KF is used for online questions, weather, etc as well. The most organizing I've done with either of them: historicals go on the older one, along with specific favorite authors that aren't historicals; shifters & other specific authors go on the newer one. I tried organizing it by "file" in the newer one; horrible to work in so I quit. And I pretty much download as I acquire. However, since I've had to take the older one back to factory specs a couple times, prior to the most recent time only the specific authors are downloaded again. I must have access to them whenever I want them! I admit, with lots of books (think lots & lots & lots!), it's harder to browse titles to get an idea as to what to read in a Kindle instead of on the shelf.

#1. I have two bookcases that are organized by authors. I donated any paper book I also had on Kindle (except JD Robb/Nora Roberts).

#2. I have three Kindles, only use two now. All ebooks down load to Kindle #2 and then I move them to the cloud. I may have 15 - 20 ebooks on that Kindle not in the cloud. When I decide to read a Kindle book I read it on my newer Kindle and when I'm done with the book off to the cloud it goes.

To be honest I prefer to read a physical book as I like the feel of a physical book. However, Kindle books are mostly cheaper and take up no space around the house!

1. I have a ceiling height bookcase in one room that is generally grouped together by genre, but not each to its own shelf. It has most of my nonfiction books, a few series collections like Laura Ingalls Wilder, and all my literary classics like the complete works of Shakespeare, complete works of Edgar Allen Poe, etc. A slightly smaller case in my bedroom is mostly fiction along with some biographies. My art books live in a small, 2-shelf bookcase in the closet of my art room. I purged a lot of my physical books several years ago and managed to get down to needing just those three bookcases. It's probably still too many books, but I won't get rid of any more.

2. I read on a Samsung tablet with Kindle, Overdrive, Moonreader, Nook, and Glose apps. My Kindle books are loaded to the app as soon as I purchase them. I think Nook is, too, but I rarely use it. The rest are loaded when I'm ready to read the book. I also have the Kindle app on my phone, and on that device I load as I read because I rarely use it.

1. In our current residence I had a to the ceiling bookcase made and that is filled with books, like KC each shelf has 3 rows of books. In the second bedroom we had shelves made in the closet (holds about another 500 books). I do have to go through these as I know some of them I will not read again but.....In our previous two residences I did have a designated room for my books and it was great. We lived in the first for 36 years but then we downsized and while I had another designated room it was considerably smaller.
2. I have a kindle Oasis on which I download the next in series or new releases by favorites (153 screens) the rest are stored in the cloud. In the cloud I have created collections for authors by series (Garwood - FBI series, Feehan - Torpedo Road, Brigg - Mercy Thompson, Robb - Eve Dallas) and that is working for me.

I still read paper books, I recently re -read Lee Damon, Evelyn Crowe and Elsie Lee books. I have to be careful when doing it as I have a bit of arthritis and holding the books can be painful.

oh mrsc you are my role model 21K ebooks, that it is commitment. I thought I had a 'book habit' with 4K, I am still a toddler compared to you!
Do you 'curate' your library on Goodreads? I review every book I read on Goodreads as I read quite quickly, and have low retention. So re-reading is important to me. If you are I would love to send you a friend request to compare my puny amount of books with yours. 

Okay, my almost 14K titles in ebk format don't seen so bad now! I've not got a clue as to how many dtbs I own. Probably up in the 1,000 range at a "looking at them guess"...whoops, I just looked at the shelves in the workroom that are mostly sci-fi, & fantasy...and the needlework books...okay, 2,000 dtbs. My sister has said that since I've switched over to ebooks so much they're going to have trouble having a party from selling my books!