Musing Mondays: Where Do Your Visiting Books Stay?

Today’s Musing Mondays is hosted by Rebecca at just one more page… and is as follows: Where do you keep any books borrowed from friends or the library? Do they live with your own collection, or do you keep them separate? Do you monitor them in any way?

Books, right now, are kind of all over the house. Even my books don’t have a permanent place to live. They’re just stacked wherever right now, so the library books just kind of also live … wherever. We try to keep them in a logical place, but with a spirited four-year-old and a willful two-year-old, keeping books in one place is a sketchy proposal at best. The best I can hope for is to keep track of them, and I try to do that with a list of our books in Excel that I try to keep updated via the library’s online catalog and our accounts, but that, again, is a dream that has yet to come to full and complete fruition. My only consolation is that any and all late fees we pay because of the flaws in my system and the fact that we have young’uns in the house go to a good cause.