Alphabetizing - Personal Preference

[Little_Nemo]

@Inna_Minnit

Personal alphabetizing? :dubious:

I’m assuming this means it’s a list intended for your own use rather than use by other people. So you can use eccentric rules secure in the knowledge they won’t confuse others.

[Moonlitherial]

@Little_Nemo

I see a lot of confusion over Lois McMaster Bujold. Should her books be filed under M or B? I’ve seen stores do it both ways. I personally opt for B.

I was looking for a book by Marion Zimmer Bradley in a book store before Christmas. I searched for an hour before I realized that B was even an option.

In my defense SOME of her books were under Z just not this one. Stupid inconsistency!
I ignore The, A and An when sorting, Personal names are LN, FN, band names that include personal names ignore the fact that they are personal names and are filed as they are known.

[zweisamkeit]

I’d also add that for me, if I had albums by (making up names, obviously) “The Daisuke Kasparek Old Man Jug Band”, they’d be organized under D. But if Daisuke Kasparek released some solo albums, they’d be organized under K.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Mr_Downtown

More problematic for me are things like Alan Parsons Project or Bryan Setzer Orchestra.

@zweisamkeit

I’d say that they should be respectively filed under A and B (instead of P and S). The persons name is part of the band/group’s name, not all of it, so I would alphabetize the first word. So I guess the rule for group name supercedes the rule for a persons name for me.

This makes sense, but you have to live with the fact that the Alan Parsons Project albums get filed far from the Alan Parsons albums.

[Little_Nemo]

@zweisamkeit

I’d also add that for me, if I had albums by (making up names, obviously) “The Daisuke Kasparek Old Man Jug Band”, they’d be organized under D. But if Daisuke Kasparek released some solo albums, they’d be organized under K.

How would you handle the Alice Cooper catalog? File it under A up to 1974 and under C from 1975 on?