Max Gooning › Shelves
Seven shelves,
seven sets of rules
Each kind of collection arrives differently, so each one is filed differently. These are the seven Max Gooning keeps — and what makes each of them awkward on its own.
Doujinshi & manga
A doujinshi library that survives 4,000 folders
Doujinshi collections break the ordinary rules of a media library: the same work arrives as a CBZ from one place and a folder of JPEGs from another, the arti…
OVA
An OVA shelf that understands episodes
OVA releases are show-shaped, not file-shaped. A series arrives an episode at a time, often years apart, from sources that each name things differently — and…
MMD
MMD, filed by what it actually is
MMD collections are the hardest kind to search, because the interesting attributes — which song, which model, whose motion data — almost never appear in the …
JAV
JAV, organised the way it is actually catalogued
JAV is the one category with a real cataloguing system already: every release has a studio code. The problem is that almost nothing on your disk uses it cons…
Western video
Tube downloads that stop being anonymous
A folder of tube downloads is the least useful shape a collection can take: every file is a slug of hyphens, the performer is unrecorded, and finding anythin…
Eroge & visual novels
Visual novels, launchable from one place
Visual novels are installed software pretending to be a media collection. Each one is a folder with a dozen executables in it, and only one of them is the game.
Figures
The shelf that is an actual shelf
The one shelf with nothing on your hard drive. Figures are the part of a collection that lives in the room, and they are usually tracked in a spreadsheet or …