So you think your bookcase is overcrowded
CharlasBookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill
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1Mweb
Came across this and wished I'd had this team last time I moved http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/05/15/so-you-think-your-bookcase-is-over...
2lilithcat
That's nothing.
When Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago moved, they had a parade. With bagpipes! (The people holding books are authors with copies of their own books from the store's Front Table
When Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago moved, they had a parade. With bagpipes! (The people holding books are authors with copies of their own books from the store's Front Table
3MarthaJeanne
>2 lilithcat: That link doesn't work unless you subscribe to the Chicago Tribune.
4lilithcat
>3 MarthaJeanne:
Well, that sucks. Suffice it to say that having your book on the store's Front Table (literally a table at the front of the store) has been described as "The Pinnacle of Academic Achievement" (by John G. Stackhouse Jr).
Well, that sucks. Suffice it to say that having your book on the store's Front Table (literally a table at the front of the store) has been described as "The Pinnacle of Academic Achievement" (by John G. Stackhouse Jr).
5bluepiano
A bit OT, but answering the thread's question: No! my bookcases are not overcrowded!
Not long ago I did a rather hard-hearted cull of books. For a week or so afterward I'd daily do a tour of my shelves, admire their new look, and re-acquaint myself with the patches of floor I'd not seen for several years. And now even though I've a very lax notion of tidiness I find myself straightening books on the shelves as I pass by: It's been so long a time since any of my shelves allowed books sufficient space to lean rather forcing them to stand upright that they don't at the moment look right.
Now I shall star this thread so that a few months hence I can return to it and be reminded that yes indeed, there was a time when my shelves weren't overcrowded.
I assumed that Mr Stackhouse was being sarky, but then I took a look at his site's home page and I fear that he wasn't.
Not long ago I did a rather hard-hearted cull of books. For a week or so afterward I'd daily do a tour of my shelves, admire their new look, and re-acquaint myself with the patches of floor I'd not seen for several years. And now even though I've a very lax notion of tidiness I find myself straightening books on the shelves as I pass by: It's been so long a time since any of my shelves allowed books sufficient space to lean rather forcing them to stand upright that they don't at the moment look right.
Now I shall star this thread so that a few months hence I can return to it and be reminded that yes indeed, there was a time when my shelves weren't overcrowded.
I assumed that Mr Stackhouse was being sarky, but then I took a look at his site's home page and I fear that he wasn't.
6TLCrawford
My local library is moving into a new building in the next few weeks. They are recruiting volunteers to help pack and move all the books. I am laid up with a bum ankle and I am not sure if it is the best or worst time for that.
7varielle
An article about running out of book space. http://www.bustle.com/articles/149576-10-things-that-happen-when-you-run-out-of-...
8al.vick
>7 varielle: haha! But I already have one room devoted to a library and about as many bookshelves as will fit in 3 other rooms. I still have books on the floor. What to do? Sigh.
10macsbrains
>7 varielle: There was so much truth in that photoset. Every time I buy another bookcase my problems are solved for maybe 5 minutes, max. At this point I am occasionally sleeping on a book, which I do not recommend.
11bluepiano
>10 macsbrains: If you're able to sleep on a book you're obviously not a princess regardless of how many mattresses you've piled atop the book.
Sounds as if you don't mean simply falling asleep with your cheek resting on a book--are you so overrun w. books that you keep some of them on your bed? Doff of hat to you, if so.
Sounds as if you don't mean simply falling asleep with your cheek resting on a book--are you so overrun w. books that you keep some of them on your bed? Doff of hat to you, if so.
12SylviaC
Before finally splurging on a new bed, I used to put some of my less favourite hardcovers under under my mattress to prop up the sagging spots.
13al.vick
>12 SylviaC: That made me snort!
14macsbrains
>11 bluepiano: The bedside piles occasionally lean over and topple onto the bed, especially because I toss and turn, so sometimes I get a hardcover in the ribs.
This would be the floor piles, mind. It's not a pile if it's not 3 or 4 feet tall.
This would be the floor piles, mind. It's not a pile if it's not 3 or 4 feet tall.
152wonderY
I find they stand better behind the bedroom door. Room for several hundred books and a wall to support them.
16bluepiano
>12 SylviaC: This morning when I was wondering to get rid of a couple of books I asked myself 'Would I be willing to use these to prop up my bed?'--no, I wouldn't. That question might well replace 'Am I ever going to read these again?' as my discard criterion.
17SylviaC
>16 bluepiano: Glad I could help!