"On Pinterest, Gen Z’s journey to discover their identity and passions is ever-present, as they open-mindedly save ideas to boards and find more along the way," said Enid Hwang, Community Marketing Manager, Pinterest. They have a strong desire for individuality we haven't seen before, perhaps because they were pretty much born with smartphone in-hand and unparalleled access to information. They see identity as fluid and care about social impact, with 56% considering themselves socially conscious 1. Generation Z is often referred to as one of the most unique, values-driven generations. Organise your books by book spine poetryįor those who, like the Washington Post writer, are ready to throw in the towel, nothing stops you from playing with book titles to create your own story segments.Through aesthetic boards like witch, grunge and love, Gen Z is finding their identity
Arranging your books by colourĪ post shared by Books By The Foot about ditching alphabetical order and turning to colour-based classification? If you’re at all a fan of Marie Kondo - the guru of tidying - you may already be feeling a “spark of joy.” Yes, arranging your books by colour is a truly pure visual and intellectual pleasure.īut beware, in this perilous exercise, there are several elements to size up at once, because you have to create your own literary rainbow while matching the height of the edges. So what can we do? Read on for some easy ways to organise our favourite books for that practical yet Pinterest-worthy aesthetic. How many of us, like this writer, have found the perfect trick to organise our books before finding, distressed and dismayed, that no amount of logic will keep the precious books in place for more than two weeks.
“I tidily separated the fiction from the nonfiction, dutifully arranging the fiction alphabetically by author….
In a recent article in the Washington Post, Mark Athitakis gave a heartfelt shout-out, “Why bother organising your books? A messy personal library is proof of life.” The journalist writes, “It’s hard for me to remember now the exact moment when my ambition for order died.” He explains how he set out, when his family moved into a new house, to meticulously tidy up his library in the new shelving. Such makes a therapeutically stimulating yet peaceful vacation for the mind. Alphabetically, by collection, by genre or theme, even by colour - it’s time to take advantage of a calm and quiet summer break to organise your books.
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