How do you organize your collection?

[Morsoth]

I have one side for my Blu-rays and one for my DVDs.

I organize my collection in Alphabetical order, but keeping the sequels with the first movie, by example: Da Vinci Code is followed by Angels & Demons.

Also, I organize the series in chronological order. By example (for the DVD versions): Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is the first, followed by Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The same with the Mummy franchise: The Scorpion King 2: The Rise of a Warrior, The Scorpion King, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

My James Bond movies are in the "B" for "Bond", and they are organized in Production Date.

I sort my DVD Profiler database the same way.

EDIT: In fact, it's a lot like iam1bearcat. The Digibooks are also mixed with the regular Blu-rays.

[BLeClair12]

Unfortunately, my collection ends up in a state of disarray every once in a while because I bring it with me to my apartment at school, and home during the summer months. I have totes that I store them all in for travel purposes.

Right now, I've got them all set up in the spare room at home on my shelf that I got a couple years ago. I'm pretty much out of room, but I've managed to fit everything in for the time being.

DVDs used to be on top, since I have far more of those, but i wanted to showcase my Blu-Rays, so when I set them up at home last week, they got the "top shelf" treatment.

Blu-Rays are arranged alphabetically, numbered titles going first. Special boxed sets or larger packaging that doesn't fit with Blu Ray's get special display on top of the shelf, to "showcase" them, so to speak. This includes, for example, the Complete Lost Collection, I Am Legend Limited Edition, Watchmen Night Owl, The Dark Knight Bat Pod, etc.

After that come DVDs, alphabetically, arranged in the same fashion as the Blu-Rays. I've recently separated TV from the rest, which goes after the DVDs, in alphabetical order.

I also have an extensive WWE DVD collection, though I've stopped purchasing those. I've got this in my closet in a storage tote. With the exception of the last several Wrestlemania's, which I buy on Blu-Ray and store at the end of the Blu-Ray collection.

I'm at just over 600 titles in all, with around 160 of those being Blu-Ray, and 80 or so being WWE Pay-Per-Views.

[DanFan]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

and yes, A Bug's Life goes in the "A" section. as does A Nightmare on Elm Street. i don't care what anyone says, that's where it belongs. if it wasn't supposed to, then they shouldn't have put an "A" there to begin with

The rules for alphabetizing ignore "A", "The" and "An".

[Johnny Vinyl]

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by DanFan

The rules for alphabetizing ignore "A", "The" and "An".

i understand it, but i hate it. couldn't imagine putting A Bug's Life in the B's or A Nightmare on Elm Street in the N's. but i know many do, but i only follow the rule for the "THE"

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by John72953

You will really hurt yourself if you keep doing that

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by John72953

who's this directed to?

EDIT: also my concert blus are kept in alphabetical order. so far, i only have two and the band name comes first, so it goes that way. don't know if some blu concerts go by event first, but if some do, i don't know what i'd do then

[Sky_Captain]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

i understand it, but i hate it. couldn't imagine putting A Bug's Life in the B's or A Nightmare on Elm Street in the N's. but i know many do, but i only follow the rule for the "THE"

People that put This Is Spinal Tap under 'S' for Spinal Tap, I want to kill them.

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

You will really hurt yourself if you keep doing that

Good thing he's not doing this

[AeroK]

I have a strange way I do my collection and it goes back to when I collected dvds.

First and foremost the majority of titles are organized by genre. Within the genre they are organized by alphabetical order.

Disney movies aren't mixed in with the other movies. I have a whole shelf reserved for those movies. The Disney movies are divided between the live action films, followed by Pixar, and then classic animation and within those categories they are in alphabetical order.

Movies based on comic books and graphic novels are also not included with the other movies. Those have their own shelf and are divided by DC, Marvel, and Other.

Digibooks and Criterions are in their own section. Criterions are arranged in alphabetical order and not by the number on the spine.

Some titles can fit in multiple categories such as How The West Was Won. It could go with my other westerns however it's a digibook. In cases like that I put the title with the digibooks because the cases are similar and it looks more uniform on the shelf.

UCEs and any abnormally large box set are put together.

Movies that have sequels are arranged in chronological order. For instance, Escape from New York comes before Escape from LA. Instances like that aren't in alphabetical order.

TV Seasons are put together.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Good thing he's not doing this

I am...just couldn't find the GIF!........LOL

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

People that put This Is Spinal Tap under 'S' for Spinal Tap, I want to kill them.

i would too. if i owned it, it would go in the "T" section where it belongs

[Kaisler]

I only have 22 blu rays right now, but I currently have 20 of them organized by Distributor and then put the distributor in Alphabetics order. If i plan on watching a film i put it on the coffee table or my gf puts one out she would like to watch on movie night. I know as my collection grows i'll have to find a better way.

[sskclickgeneral]

The basis for mine (like almost everyone else) is alphabetical order, with numbers coming first.

For number, I go in numerical order. (ex. a movie starting w/ the number 7 would come before "28 Days Later", which would come before a movie starting with the number 70)

For sequels, if it starts off with the same franchise name, such as the Harry Potters, I go in release order (ex. original Halloween comes before Halloween H20, which comes before Halloween remake, which comes before Halloween 2 remake). But if the sequels have a completely different name, such as House Of 1000 corpses and Devils rejects, they go alphabetically.

For 2-movie collections, or boxsets, ect (which I normally avoid if possible), I go with the first listed title

And I keep my remaining DVD's on a separate shelf (until I hopefully I can replace them all, but certain films such as Song Of The South, Carnosaurs, and Land Before Times I'm not holding my breathe for)

This works much better for me then previously, where I basically had them grouped into genres, and arranged them from favorite to least favorite

[poke smot]

i organize in several ways: first, slip case or no slip case. second, color of spine, and third, by studio. it looks pretty cool to see them all lined up. kind of like a rainbow or a row of starburst.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by tuck301

i organize in several ways: first, slip case or no slip case. second, color of spine, and third, by studio. it looks pretty cool to see them all lined up. kind of like a rainbow or a row of starburst.

what order of colors do you have them in? from light to dark, or dark to light?

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

what order of colors do you have them in? from light to dark, or dark to light?

I did it by color once to see what it would look like. This is post 67 from this thread.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/3945813-post67.html

[poke smot]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

what order of colors do you have them in? from light to dark, or dark to light?

white, red yellow, orange, brown, green, black
right now i dont have enough shelf space but like i said, to me its more visually appealing. once you get over separating sequels, it looks cool.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

I did it by color once to see what it would look like. This is post 67 from this thread.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/3945813-post67.html

ahh, i remember that that does look cool. too bad so many studios choose black as the background color on the spine

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by tuck301

white, red yellow, orange, brown, green, black
right now i dont have enough shelf space but like i said, to me its more visually appealing. once you get over separating sequels, it looks cool.

is it ever hard to find a certain title? it would take me a long time to remember what color spines are for them!