Christmas arrivals need their own space!

Christmas 2012 has brought an array of lovely books for both me and my hubby (as well as a couple of book tokens!). Now comes the thorny but still enjoyable issue of finding them space on the bookcases. This morning I have just managed to squeeze a half size billy bookcase into our living room - didn't think it was possible to fit any more in! We organise our books by subject matter and the latest books means that some areas will overflow their current areas and have to be moved to larger accommodation but what to move where? My brother (who I love dearly) just puts any books on any shelves!!!
Does anyone else have these post Christmas issues?

Right time to move some books about! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all book loving LibraryThingers xx

I have this issue but not related to the holidays. I sort by genre myself, and couldn't imagine having books just haphazard on shelves! Granted I also have always sorted my movies by genre as well, but come on, who doesn't want things simple to find?? :P

Not only do I have Christmas issues, but I then have my birthday less than a month afterwards, so a glut usually goes on my To Be Read shelf only to have to find a home as the year progresses. This year, however, I've only received 3 books for Christmas so far ...

Mission accomplished! It still took more re-arranging than I thought it would (but then it always does!), however, now not only have I managed to place the Christmas books and the three I purchased in the sales on Boxing Day but have organised an entire bookcase for my husband's books with growing space for his Open University study! I also have done some slight pruning and have a couple of carrier bags of books and stuff to take to a charity shop.

I only get one book for Christmas (we only do 1 Christmas present per person in the family, and with friends we never do Christmas present exchanges... it's probably a cultural thing, Christmas seems to "require" more presents in the USA than in the Netherlands?), though I am already putting books sideways on my other books - so I need to read the books I don't want to keep first, so I can put the books I do want to keep on the shelf instead of on other books :D

Pre-, on, and post-Christmas books have pushed me to the point of having to build another bookcase for the library. Have "needed" one for awhile, but the additions have just made it imperative. I may spend New Year's Eve doing a simple pine stack to get stuff off the floor and off eachother!

I had an entirely different problem with the books I received from my brother for Christmas. My luggage was full, so I put the three trade paperbacks in the bottom of my backpack, which had my laptop and other stuff in it, so I was carrying onto the plane. Security spent a long time looking at my backpack on the xray screen. They asked me if it was my bag, and I said yes, they asked if I had books in it, which I agreed that I did, and then they asked if they could look at the books. What am I going to say to that? So we go off to a side area, where the TSA person asks me which pocket the books are in, and I tell him. He pulls them out one at a time, flips through the pages, turns them upside down and shakes them, does the little wipey thing on them. When he's convinced they really are books, he asks me if there's any more in the bag, and I tell him that I didn't think so, but there were hard drives and stuff in my backpack if they could be causing problems. He tells me "no, the issue we saw was definitely organic" and goes off to xray my bag again, and the three books separate from the bag. After which he repacks them in the bag and lets me go catch my plane.

Apparently my Christmas books were almost too dangerous to get on a plane.

Weird. I can't remember a time post-9/11 that I've flown without books, and even when my suitcase or backpack was almost entirely full of them (which I've done many a time, since they usually don't weigh the carry-ons), they've never shown concern about my books in the security line.

@7...maybe he was looking for a good read recommendation?

Heh, from what I understand from talking to the TSA guy for a few seconds, and telling him that obviously my eReader was the way to go in the future, was that because I had the 3 trade paperbacks stacked on top of each other pretty much perfectly, at the bottom of the bag, on the xray they didn't look like 3 books, but like one strange thing that had to be researched a little more closely.

So if I'd tossed a dozen books in my backpack, and they were floating around haphazardly (which is what I would have done pre-Nook), there wouldn't have been any issues. It was just the way they were packed in my backpack had the TSA guys confused.