Bibliophiles! A little help/advice.

[Coventina]

7. My personal library is done in Dewey Decimal

It took me forever, so you might not want to the route I did.

I looked up every book for the official DD number.

Most of the entries I could find through the Library of Congress website search (it's part of the book's record, even though LOC has their own numbering system).


https://catalog.loc.gov

For the remaining 30--35% of books that did not have the DD number in the LOC search, I used this really helpful website:

https://www.librarything.com/mds

Enter the book's title in the (small) search field in the upper right-hand corner and it will either give it to exactly, or give you examples of books on the same subject and what their DD# is.

Cumbersome, but I've been really happy I invested the time.


On edit:
PS: I wrote the DD# on the inside of each book, so I would never need to look it up again.