Actually, I'm a little jealous, and I feel inadequate for some reason. I've lots of ebooks, but doesn't doesn't show who I am because no one can see it.
Please make it so! Perhaps a hashtag like #personallibraries or #bookstacks I don't know how to do it. I could look at them for hours and hours ~swoon~
It’s a thing. A wonderful and increasingly rare thing. Here is one side of my office. Didn’t want to do a panoramic so missing the wall behind me, other side of this wall and the boxed and stored 2ndary collection.
Eek. This is our home, too. We’ve run out of book shelves. Now using library trolleys as well. I find those useful for moving around categories of books as I’m working with them.
Why do so many people tell me that I must reduce my book collection? Do they feel threatened by walking into the home of a book lover? Or is there a genuine reason for their reco? The only pbm I see is that I can’t do the packing whenever I move out of here. But this pbm applies to all my belongings
There's a lower limit and an upper limit to this situation: having a massive collection of books you don't read is nothing; storing a massive collection of books you've already read is not terribly useful. I think we can probably set up an optimization problem. 🤔
"...for truth and knowledge are an idle gleam if knowledge brings not power to change the world."
- Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950) Indian revolutionary contemporary to Ghandi, poet, philosopher, cigar smoker, meat eater, and integral yogi
How are you applying this knowledge, or just a tree cemetery?
Take up Industrial Arts time at a locally available high school wood-shop and gives those books a tiered classic library shelf treatment replete with a rolling ladder that they so justly deserve.
Rarely do I loom at an image and immediately feel cozy. This is why even if I’m not the biggest reader I’ve always kinda wanted to open a bookstore. There’s something magical wandering rows of books and that feeling of getting lost and finding something ala. The Pagemaster.
I truly believe that books should be read and passed on. Never kept on a shelf gathering dust like an old forgotten treasure.
No one wants to read an old book smelling of naphthalene causing skin irritation; gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea and diarrhea. That is not what reading is about.
what is excessive? 😁
I see no "excessive" there
'Cept of course a personal filing system that looks messy to me. But, who am I to judge? We all have our own style. 😍
...more like they are trending everywhere...thankfully i don't trend, i blend my love of books into every room, including my purse...i never leave home without one. while others scroll, i turn pages...📚💟
Not a "personal" Library then, is it? You someone saying I've got lots of books look at my big brain... Interior design 1/10 Carpentry 2/10 Intellectual Snobbery 9/10
English murder mystery solved by Barnaby when the stack of books smashed the old woman to death. Who pushed the books or did they just say to hell with it and toppled over of their own accord?
I'm having flashbacks to that episode of Hoarders where the person had 20,000+ books & had to be hospitalized after a book pile collapsed on them & caused a concussion.
My mother had a significant library - kinda like that one. Because my folks lived in Germany for several years (where I was born) after WWII serving in the U.S. military she collected a lot. When she passed I had nowhere to keep them all ... so I donated most of them to the local public library.
Wooden shelves, a braver choice than metal. Looks like you made them yourself, they look fantastic. Are you planning on getting a rolling ladder? I feel like I am close to what you have pictured, but your layout is far superior.
Here's my guideline, if it does not have it's own mortgage, and triple the square footage of your personal domicile it is not excessive. Marveling at libraries though is always encouraged.
Hoarding books so that others don't use them serves no purpose other than to boost the ego of the person wasting space storing resources not being used.
I aspire to bookshelves like that... I've just shown my wife and all she said was a resounding NO!
I've managed to stall "sorting out the bookshelves" for quite a while now at our house and they're not as impressive as yours!
There's a book store in Minneapolis packed like this. Owner reads in the lobby when there's no one to ring up. Pretty sure it's actually his personal library he allows people to buy from.
This is why I gave about half my books away and use more digital than in the past. Still buy real books because I love them and love bookstores. But I’m way more judicious.
In my opinion, it's definitely a thing... warm, cozy, place where there is abundance of adventure, a place where you can reimagine someone else's imagination in your head.
While “excessive” and “hoarding” don’t apply to books, my little free library is a nice way to release some back into the wild.
It’s just a stock wall cabinet with a roof. Neighborly engagement has been lovely.
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Also, what is this "excessive" you speak of for libraries?
“Behind the second bookcase in the murder mystery section”
I could definitely get buried in a stack of those books for weeks, only to be found expired by a concerned lover.
{she says reclined in her reading room}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poWxsGK7TrA
Merely needs more shelves on right side which has available height, followed by solid ladder.
- Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950) Indian revolutionary contemporary to Ghandi, poet, philosopher, cigar smoker, meat eater, and integral yogi
How are you applying this knowledge, or just a tree cemetery?
Looks eerily similar
😃👍
No one wants to read an old book smelling of naphthalene causing skin irritation; gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea and diarrhea. That is not what reading is about.
I see no "excessive" there
'Cept of course a personal filing system that looks messy to me. But, who am I to judge? We all have our own style. 😍
It’s a thing ✊🏼
Hoarding books so that others don't use them serves no purpose other than to boost the ego of the person wasting space storing resources not being used.
Donate them to a library so they can be accessed.
I've managed to stall "sorting out the bookshelves" for quite a while now at our house and they're not as impressive as yours!
Damn that's a mad stack of books
Its thrilling
- Thomas Jefferson, 1815
It’s just a stock wall cabinet with a roof. Neighborly engagement has been lovely.