How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library

requires methods of organisation like catalogues, methods of reproduction like photocopy machines, methods of rapid and accurate retrieval like computer algorithms,

Being organized, in both senses, involves arranging your environment so that you have ready access to the greatest resources at your disposal.

The result was a stack of folders, each dedicated to a single subject, filled with scraps of paper that collectively contained every relevant fact, quote, or observation.

The key is to be organized.