Stewart
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Construction of your personal library?
- Thread starter sugarz
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No need to be rude.
I should have been clearer in my post.
This is how I understand your post:
You have close to 1,100 books that you will eventually read but you're not going to read them until you read some other books you haven't bought yet.
Is that what you are saying? If so, that just doesn't make much sense to me. If not, then what exactly did you mean?
I should have been clearer in my post.
This is how I understand your post:
You have close to 1,100 books that you will eventually read but you're not going to read them until you read some other books you haven't bought yet.
Is that what you are saying? If so, that just doesn't make much sense to me. If not, then what exactly did you mean?
abecedarian
Well-Known Member
My dh built oak shelves in our schoolroom and family room. They're in ajoining rooms in our basement. We have viewout windows-meaning in case of a fire, we could open them and crawl out. The bookcases are all under the windows. In the schoolroom, I have a u-shaped set, in the familyroom, there is one wall-length row. In a storage room in the basement, we have two large, infinished wooden bookcases my mom found at a garage sale when I was in middleschool. We had them in the garage for years, and then last year my dh cleared them out, cleaned then up, and took them downstairs. They're fully packed with books. Unfortunately, the whole room is packed with boxes and stuff, so hunting books in there is not for the faint of heart. Brown Recluse spiders like that room too. In the living room there is one lone oak bookshelf, and we have another in our room. All the closets have built in shelves for shoes and clothes..but guess what else they hold.
Right now all the books are overflowing in eight non-matching bookcases. I am looking at having a woodworker friend build me a set of 10 six-foot matching bookcases plus a corner unit. I'll likely do it if I don't faint at the price.
I don't think we ever have all the books we intend to read. Are you picking up every book you see for sale at thrift shops and such or do you only pick up certain ones?
Your screening process can't be that severe if you have over a thousand books after a year of hoarding.
One day I need to count how many books I have.
One day I need to count how many books I have.
Do you have a list of your books somewhere? It would certainly be unfortunate to be out and see a copy of "Just so stories" then come home with it only to realize you already have it.
None of those links work for me.
Care to post them up again?
Use the img tag instead of the html tag though.
I found the pics in another thread. I like the LOC classification books. Very nice.
Fantasy Moon
kickbox
I'm getting another cheap bookcase to put in my room. It just needs a new coat of paint to match the rest of the color scheme. Hopefully this helps the room look a little more organized. Since the shelves are not that big it would be ideal for all the mass market paperbacks that I am currently jamming into every available crevice.
Occlith
Well-Known Member
Constructed my personal library? Uh, sure...
My "library" consists of one metal bookshelf and one wooden bookshelf.
The metal one I bought from a hardware store and is the kind that would usually be stored in a garage. The wooden one is compressed particle board with a woodgrain pattern glued to it.
One is in a front room, one is in a back room of the house.
I maintain it by dusting it whenever I remember to do so.
My older magazines are stored in boxes (the kind that copier paper is packaged in); my recent magazines are stored in boxes as mentioned in the How do you store your mags? thread.
Here is what my dream library looks like.
Bump for the new people.
blurricus
New Member
http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Hidden-Door-Bookshelf
Interesting site that describes how to build your own bookshelf with a hidden door behind it. It was a dream as a little boy to have something like this.
I know there are also sites on how to build a bookshelf out of books. That would be pretty fun.
Interesting site that describes how to build your own bookshelf with a hidden door behind it. It was a dream as a little boy to have something like this.
I know there are also sites on how to build a bookshelf out of books. That would be pretty fun.
I want one of those.