Bathtub Measurement on LT: What a Bathtub full of books might look like in real life

I saw this today on Bookshelf Porn:
http://bookshelfporn.com/post/6920648578

I couldn't resist posting it here because of the LT Measurement for how many bathtubs your collection would fill.

We are currently at 11.4 bathtubs. I suspect they would be filled higher than this sample tub, however.

:)

Certainly not the most effective way to fill a bathtub with books. I would put more in one of mine!

Oh, this is just great. I finally join this group, rather than just watch it, so I can post a question about bookshelves and I see this post. Since I'm new to LT, I immediately have to find out how many bathtubs I have (pathetically few!). So now I have to go back, add data, to fill more bathtubs. I'll never get my bookshelves built!

I do agree -- that bathtub could have help more!!!

The image makes me shiver, What if some fool comes along and turns on the water?

Hmmm...my bathtub count's only 1.8, but surely you can't fit 1200+ books into one bathtub.

The stock measurements can contain a great deal of bogus data. The most famous examples are the Amazon dimensions of 20x20x20 inch books. I've seen a lot of books over the years but never a single one to match that. We found that by sorting by height (and later the other dimensions) that we could spot these outliers and pull the book and insert corrected values. Unfortunately, since the dimensions are limited to our copy, others don't benefit from those we have measured. Without editions and expressions, it would be hard to make this apply to anything resembling common knowledge, of course. I think also about Nancy Drew books where copies with the same page count started at nearly 2 inches thick in the 1930s became about 1 inch thick by 1960 or so. The height and width remained the same for most of these.

James

Photos of Happily-Filled Bathtubs

Bathtubs: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill

>6 Keeline:
I have a catalogue of the first 60 years of Folio Society publications, which includes dimensions and pagination (but not weight) and am using it to update my LT catalogue. Slow, but faster than measuring by hand each of the approx 200 pre-2007 FS books I have. The 2007 and later editions, of course, I'm stuck with manual measurement, but a couple of books each evening before bedtime and it will be done in a few weeks.

Wish I had similar references for Everyman's library, Heritage Press, Easton Press, etc.

Os.

Measuring a couple of books before going to bed each night is a good idea! I'll be moving next month, so packing up everything, but when I'm in my new room I can start doing that :) Before the move I won't have a lot of time for that (still need to enter a few new books though, of which I am entering the measurements immediately).