what do your bookshelves look like?

in the large, zoomed in, panoramic, whatever, let's show off

You're welcome.

So, knowing that I have a book buying problem, when I ordered a bed from Ikea a couple of years ago, I ordered a small backup bookshelf that I could keep stashed away for the future. And lo it came to pass that earlier this year, I think, I finally assembled it. Here's what's on it right now. (Well, last night, when I took pictures.)

http://spooky.camp/~evan/bookshelves/bdrm_top.jpg

http://spooky.camp/~evan/bookshelves/bdrm_mid.jpg

http://spooky.camp/~evan/bookshelves/bdrm_bot.jpg

may I lick that Wodehouse shelf and collection

I don't see why not; one of my dear friends came by the other night and unselfconsciously started smelling one of my books so I'm used to whatever.

My dad has accumulated a bunch of those Overlook Press Wodehouse books for himself, picking up used copies at attractive prices, and then he conveyed the Jeeves and Wooster subset to me for my birthday this year.

There are the shelves as seen by the casual observers, and then the second rows of books behind those currently visible, and then the stacks of books that don't fit on the overstuffed shelves, not to mention the books which remain in boxes so that the stacks don't get too out of hand, and then the boxes in storage so that I have room to maneuver through my home. I might have to hire a professional to photograph the lot.

It's really going to be quite the bonfire once this shit ignites, I tell you waht.

please, everyone, hire me to take photographs of your bookshelves. i use an iphone SE - totally clean lens, triple-wiped with my cotton shirt. $25 per pic. $20 if you want me to do it remotely (just skype me in to your living room and i'll take a picture of my laptop screen)

I used my iPhone SE also Karl but I find my natural oils really lend a warm glow to my photographs

i did notice those natural oils. very nice, v v nice

I want a hoos to post in this thread

For reference: It's 2008! What do your books look like?... has numerous photos of bookshelves belonging to ILBers, both past and present. My own bookshelves look much as they did ten years, when viewed in large. I have added one more standing bookshelf to those pictured. It is filled, of course. That's what bookshelves do!

https://i.imgur.com/qSrWLzw_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Haven’t moved my books or shelves down from Edinburgh yet so you’ll get my dresser top and half the books I’ve picked up from the local charity shops in the last four months. I had been ignoring the lack of order until I took this photo.

2 views in my office.

https://i.imgur.com/PEfG7df.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/G5x4M1u.jpg

Some films books

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/s0/92fbabe7-b63d-4b74-a0c3-3dc13059dbab-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

http://i.imgur.com/HapTK86.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/PjnsKKf.jpg

As a fan of the genre, I should really check out this RE: NOIR book that seems to be so popular.

Some books

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ekuaoo0y8anrw8c/20181011_180116.jpg?dl=0
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/xv5atv469bgzl27/20181011_175613.jpg?dl=0
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/f1dflz92l22ubgc/20181011_175558.jpg?dl=0

Hmmm, not sure why the first one is sideways...

do y'all dust your bookshelves

Sometimes, when bored

the, uh, least cluttered of them

https://i.imgur.com/RkXfxwe.jpg

guess the camera on my phone really sucks

Here's an overview photo of one of my two main bookcases, with an auxiliary case off to the side there

http://spooky.camp/~evan/bookshelves/expedit.jpg

(the two top middle cubes contain stuff that's my partner's or her sister's, everything else is mine…)

…a fair proportion of this shelf is stuff I haven't read, haven't got plans to read, and in a lot of cases it is unlikely that I'd ever really read a meaningful chunk of whatever it is (The Art of Computer Programming; the Bible)

Amazing thread, jealous of WmC's DC Archive books.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2ur2mpj.jpg

Books are spread all over the house so my friend made some eaves shelving for the overage of larger size art/music/comix books.

I'm moving house soon, so this is all going to come down in a day or two, good timing.

https://i.postimg.cc/gJZFJQKv/image1-5.jpg

2 others that look m/l just like this but harder to get full pics of

one shelf apiece from different bookcases
https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1972/43455291800_798dcbbec8.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1962/30331012917_d1dd8a7463_c.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1975/43455286800_a72fc23026_c.jpg

love that tiny Poe

Everyone has great books.

Poe is definitely the *smallest* book I own lol

I will try to post something once I've reorganized a bit. My three main bookcases are completely unsorted.

jealous of Moodles' "Poster Art of Disney Parks" book, had no idea there was such a thing

xp

I also have that same paperback ed. of Infinite Jest everyone has but it's on the shelf I haven't photographed yet

so much Henry James!

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/s0/8001d427-821b-495c-929b-e2fd52a38109-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

new worlds

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/s0/37c780e4-8e5c-45dc-999a-9c6f88bfebae-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

yr just posting that to make me jealous

You will have to visit the UK Shakey, the streets are littered with old copies of New Worlds.

haha

heres more in good light

https://i.postimg.cc/FzhbgFrN/image1-6.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Hxd8FSft/image2.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/vTDTdCX5/image3.jpg

Some Penguin Classics:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgmyCWmU8AA-_1M.jpg

The general sorry state of things:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZxyzlvU0AAqmYv.jpg

James thank you for posting that last one; I showed it to my partner as evidence that I am relatively normal

(Those Penguins though!)

Fuckin hell james

Sure you can say "please", but who on earth could resist entering the book-filled death trap; it's like saying to a bear, "don't raid this bee's nest for honey, you'll get stung!"

Wtf! James has a bookstore in his house

i just moved so i don't have my shelf set up yet but it's down to like 5% books 95% games now anyway, the transition is almost complete

https://i.imgur.com/Cyf8Rlm.jpg

I don't have shelves or a camera phone that I can transfer images with. And I'm ashamed that I've only read 10% of the books I have and I'm too scared people will steal the valuable ones.

Might come back here in several years and post mine.

cool, ill be waiting

jm's second pick reminds me of my uncles house, p much the entire place has person-high stacks everywhere; he took up used bookselling as a retirement hustle, lil sad though he doesnt really care abt anything outside of their value o_o

hope this works i got old and paranoid and don't know how to share photos anymore

anyway we're, uh, in the middle of doing some renovations

https://photos.app.goo.gl/heei5Rcd2UUfMTEf8

nope i'm old, anyway it's here https://photos.app.goo.gl/heei5Rcd2UUfMTEf8

I think mine would stress people out

Whole lotta Moorcock. Any recommendations?

https://preview.ibb.co/jXtBW9/914-BBE17-F22-C-4-A5-D-A43-E-357-E78-A936-DD.jpg

I love buying and reading trashy paperbacks but they are ugly as sin to shelve unless you keep 'em in good nick (which I don't).

My last principal bookshelf, from the sadly defunct Ballard Bookcase Company.

http://spooky.camp/~evan/bookshelves/ballard.jpg

(my mandatory copy of Infinite Jest appears here, along with a desultory shelf of manga that might give you the incorrect impression that I read a lot of manga. Video games and movies at the bottom.)

This happened months ago and I haven't got round to replacing the shelves yet.

Glass shelf failure! They’d been good for 15 years... pic.twitter.com/VQlwFcHL1f

— The Half Pint Press (@halfpintpress) March 16, 2018

I will do this in stages.

https://i.postimg.cc/W15FrhzB/65-AC7-D90-854-E-42-B2-8-B37-4-A214-D1374-B6.png

https://i.postimg.cc/J42Ck8mT/1504-B5-FD-0053-42-F3-9-D95-21-B393-BCAEA9.png

They are double stacked, which obviously makes it impossible to find anything but keeps them off the floor.

https://i.postimg.cc/bwhWbwW9/311-E4-DB0-93-E7-4072-8-BDC-97-DB86-CF6-E72.png

Mostly art stuff:

https://i.postimg.cc/8P03Kb7w/A746256-F-64-FE-4-DC5-A06-C-32-B527-C36-A00.png

https://i.postimg.cc/9FK8tFkn/BE47-E188-55-F5-403-E-BD11-77-DD8-E62805-D.png

And the all-important Tintins:

https://i.postimg.cc/s2c48Vny/A3-A5-B15-E-3870-462-B-A518-35-B653035810.png

Nice. Who's the 'man reading' painting by?

It’s Egon Schiele’s portrait of Dr Hugo Koller.

https://i.postimg.cc/nc427YvC/2-E1-EF3-D7-6-FF9-403-F-BD0-E-9-E65-A775-CE00.png

https://i.postimg.cc/jdbQswGK/29-BC8-BE5-C690-4595-943-D-591075313-C88.png

Thanks!

do you have a checklist for those penguin classics sharivari

b/c wau

No, I have the catalogue somewhere but have never bothered checking them off. I should do, really.

Whole lotta Moorcock. Any recommendations?

Moorcock is all over the place stylistically and is also prolific enough that it's safe to say there is no ideal starting point. In general my recommendations are summed up here: Michael Moorcock: "a man who excels at saga-making in a timeless magic world" or like the movie Yellow Submarine w/o any of the good bits

I have that Phaidon ukiyo-e book too. It's great.

I've begun amassing a shelf of Taschens but the only overlap I see with yours is the Piranesi.

ShariVari has a _lot_ of good books

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<3 Tiptree anthology

Shakey. I like your books. I was intrigued by the Kirby/DC stuff you posted before. I'd like to get into more of that stuff, but don't know where to start or what's even affordable.

One of five bookcases. This is the tidiest and easiest to photograph.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1903/31489243368_bd728abc08.jpg
I try to shelve by height (to maximise space efficiency) and all my bookcases are double stacked.

A couple more views, so you get a feel for the vibe of the room where I spend most of my time every day.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ypujrgsz8bm94we/20181016_104721.jpg?dl=0

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/een3dgai897w9xi/20181016_105009.jpg?dl=0

I'd like to get into more of that stuff, but don't know where to start or what's even affordable.

I'd actually defer to sic on this point, at least in terms of what's available (not necessarily in terms of what looks good - he hates Marvel glossy reprints for ex, I think they look fine). My memory is that those Fourth World books didn't stay in print, and some volumes were more popular/command higher prices than others. The Thor books are from the Marvel Masterworks series, which I think has been discontinued/are also out of print. No idea what those would fetch. Generally my opinion is that anything Kirby did between like '68 and '74 or so is just absolute gold, and well worth the investment. I know recently Marvel's started pumping out relatively nice full-color collections that are compiled by subject/storyline - so there's like one for the "Saga of the Silver Surfer" (which spans various FF issues plus some other random stuff), and one for the Inhumans, etc. - which are nice, but they aren't complete issues in chronological order or anything like that. The one thing I don't have that I would like is the giant Fantastic Four omnibus, but it is so big it's actually kind of hard to read also it is $$$$.

Yeah, I'm less concerned about the authenticity of the printing process and more wondering what's affordable and fun with some great psychedelic artwork.

as far as Thor goes, this volume is incredible: https://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Masterworks-Mighty-Thor-5/dp/0785188509 For some reason they put a way shittier, non-Kirby illo on the cover of the paperback? whatever. Contains Thor's visit to EGO, THE LIVING PLANET

this is probably the best Fourth World volume: https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Kirbys-Fourth-World-Omnibus/dp/1401235352/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539707310&sr=1-1&keywords=kirby+fourth+world+volume+3 I dunno how the paperback printing is. Contains what Kirby and most afficionados would agree is his single greatest issue/story - "The Pact"

I got this aforementioned Silver Surfer one which features one of my favorite crazy-looking FF arcs where they venture into the "Microworld": https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Surfer-Epic-Collection-Galactus/dp/0785190023/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539707484&sr=1-14&keywords=Silver+Surfer+in+books I dunno why this is $45 I picked it up for like $25 iirc.

treefell that's a good vintage of Discworld paperbacks you got there

Very nice, I'll check them out

xp

Cheers silby. I started reading Discworld when Mort came out in paperback. I have everything up to Interesting Times in paperback and from there I have the rest in hardback. Which I'd put up a picture of but they're at the back of a double stack in bookcase stuck behind a couch...

Re: Kirby/DC

Last year DC brought out a complete Fourth World hardcover omnibus, containing every Kirby issue of New Gods, Forever People, Mister Miracle and the related Jimmy Olsen issues that Jack wrote and drew:

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-World-Jack-Kirby-Omnibus/dp/1401274757/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539762846&sr=1-1&keywords=KIRBY+FOURTH+WORLD

DC have also just issued a new New Gods paperback, I'm guessing with the other titles to follow and presumably using the same re-colouring as the omnibus (the colour is fine as far as these things go, imho). If you want all of the Kirby Fourth World, the omnibus probably works out as the cheapest way to currently acquire it, though it's a fairly unwieldy big brick of a book.

Outside of the Fourth World, Amazon are also offering a complete Kamandi omnibus, and collections of The Demon, Omac, The Losers, Spirit World and In The Days of the Mob (Jack's short-lived black and white magazine titles), none of which seem to be going for outrageous prices.

1481 pages

it seems implausible that the inner margins are going to be legible in this thing

The stitching on the spine of my copy is suitably robust, and I don't recall any margin issues - but will give it another browse when I get home.

There was however a problem with a duplicated page - don't know if that's been corrected now. So, 1480 pages of material!

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/12/21/fourth-world-omnibus-major-printing-error/

main bookshelf, fiction through to the start of non-fiction https://i.imgur.com/FWgLokJ.jpg

big cupboard under the stairs filled with comic book ephemera

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/s0/ccc15ae5-8b2f-4d77-ac74-3f32452a42e4-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/s0/07b2ca91-ee7b-42ac-9958-0dd2ea86861b-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/s0/bf8fb475-1b14-435e-b30d-1e5164338ed1-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

yowza!

Just discovered something creepy: try dropping one of the clearer higher-res photos from this thread into https://cloud.google.com/vision/ and it does a not-bad job of pulling the book titles out.

https://image.ibb.co/b6Mo1L/Untitled.png
https://image.ibb.co/fA7jaf/Untitled2.png

one section (some of these are my wife's):

https://i.imgur.com/YJpQzJe.jpg

My nonfiction. On the left side mostly history, on the right side film books, some theology and other stuff.
On the wall to the left is Saint Jerome, always looking over my shoulder to make me start reading a book instead of wasting my time on ILX:

https://i.imgur.com/ENKrLj6.jpg

A better view of my buddy J:

http://www.artcyclopedia.org/art/vincenzo-di-catena-jerome.jpg

I've always viewed my books/bookshelves as more of a living thing - a reflection of where my head is at and what my interests are pointing at. I used to have about three times as many but I've given books away, sold and traded stuff off. I'm also a heavy e-reader now - for me it's the words that matter, not the form of the ritual.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/et_bookshelf-1.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/et_bookshelf-2.jpg

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/et_bookshelf-3.jpg

(not pictured: the 33 1/3 books - they're with the records)

Nice! What's that blue John Cale book in the 1st photo?

good shit ET

idk know how to post pictures from my phone to ilx so heres a tweet that has my bookshelves:

gradients are back pic.twitter.com/HzXlVSytpP

— Crayson, inventor of Snullcore (@wutsreal) August 22, 2018

Nice! What's that blue John Cale book in the 1st photo?

It's the special edition of Cale's What's Welsh For Zen autobio that's illustrated by Dave McKean

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41C9QVZ5HKL._SX335_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

should have moved the lamp (same John Cale volume peaking from behind couch, lower left)

https://i.imgur.com/wh7fcoE.jpg

beginning to sag

https://i.imgur.com/8yUBc1S.jpg

wife is concerned about the floors giving in our little bungalow. have a friend who had her floor reinforced for her record collection.

should have moved the lamp (same John Cale volume peaking from behind couch, lower left)

I see the Bomp! book peeking out a couple books away. Super pleased to have a tiny part in the making of that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/books/celebrity-bookshelves-tv-coronavirus.html

Scott says: hey you guys feel free to bump an old what does your bookshelf look like thread. i love that kinda hot action.

So ... I moved flats and got some bookshelves built and some from IKEA

https://i.imgur.com/bUO2RXc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HHKQOVB.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EyfOVkn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/46FjBl0.jpg

awesome stacks

oh baby hubba hubba!

i want to see what james m's death trap looks like in 2023 too!

Moved office into my daughter's old room a couple of years ago, made a proper man-cave of it with home theater and (suboptimal) recliner.

https://i.imgur.com/FeaTslh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/PLKIZZV.jpg
Severely culled my CDs since my 2018 pics upthread. All Criterions on the left shelves, plus I have my booze research library now.

Not pictured behind my desk, a small but steadily growing library about spirits.

ugh, sorry for not downsizing the pics before hosting them

btw the oatmeal containers are for a model of a column still I'm planning on assembling

"So ... I moved flats and got some bookshelves built and some from IKEA"

😍😍😍

The amaro library gave me a faint.

haha, i love the booze cave, WmC! that's awesome.

Scott, this is now slightly out of date, but:
https://vimeo.com/591893523

Some of the books (we've downsized our collection):

https://i.imgur.com/P5kpqY0.jpg

Most of the booze:

https://i.imgur.com/gF52chF.jpg

Oh, James! James! James! James! You need an exit strategy.

haha, he could always open a store like i did! i don't even want to know what would have happened if i hadn't. that includes my first store in the 90s. i sold hundreds of my own books back then. i don't sell OR buy as many any more. just don't look in our attic at home. i SWEAR there are no books up there!

those rooms look great, josh, love that wall o' shelf.

Lots of different bookshelves around the house: films, music, politics, etc. These are baseball books, with, yes, a shelf devoted to James.

https://i.postimg.cc/bJkckbrf/shelf-1.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/y8dMn2xP/shelf-2.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Wz8yw7PC/james.jpg

Scott, this is now slightly out of date, but:
https://vimeo.com/591893523

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison)

holy shit!

AMAZING!!! so jealous of his lair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6cIujCC3Do

you gotta see his books.

I posted this is another thread but it fits here too, heartbreaking amount of stuff probably went to the dumpster because even collector friends couldn't save the whole collection between them.

https://www.blackgate.com/2023/05/21/in-memory-of-a-legendary-collector-denny-lien-september-26-1945-april-15-2023/

I frequently wonder what I'm going to get rid of but I hear people saying "wish I hadn't got rid of that" all the time, and there are a few things I got rid of and bought again, so I need to become far more sane before I get rid of much more.

I would like to be less sane about books but there’s nowhere to put new bookcases in this place and I rent so new books sort of get wedged in places as it is. If I ever live someplace with builtins it’s gonna get interesting

Or if I inherit my dad’s stuff god help me

I hear people saying "wish I hadn't got rid of that" all the time

the possibility of later regret is always present when you get rid of a book. I've learned that such regrets are mostly grounded in a kind of nostalgic sentimentality rather than because you NEED the book for some purpose. it's almost always about the pleasant feelings you associate with it. One simply likes to know it is there on your shelf. In that case, it's like keeping your favorite stuffed animals and toys from childhood. Most of the value is in the memories and feelings, for which the object is a trigger. Once I understood this it became easier to dispense with the object and just revisit the memory, which takes less storage space.

My trouble is if I get rid of the object I am liable to lose track of the memory forever

I only have one bookshelf but it’s a doozy. Will post later

I'm not very sentimental about these things, the things I regretted getting rid of and bought again were really good books that I gave away in excessive enthusiasm for reducing my collection. But I think it was good to know that I can regret things like that and I'm a bit more careful now.

https://i.imgur.com/4H7RZg6.jpg

I was fascinated with the way those Vintage Contemporaries books looked when I was a kid.

Wish I still had that copy of A Fan’s Notes.

Lorraine Louie was the best

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-artist-whose-book-covers-distilled-the-nineteen-eighties

Never knew all that, thanks.

did this for books and records. it's not all the books, there are other shelves in the library not pictured.

https://i.imgur.com/Ry5ZrEp.png

I think James' video is an adequate answer to 'how many books is too many books?' because at the very least, if I lived to a 100 I'd still not make it through a collection like that. Still envious, though.

Here are mine (shot with my shitty, misted phone camera).

Lounge (these are double stacked, fwiw)
https://i.imgur.com/g4rTfPL.jpg

Hallway
https://i.imgur.com/OnIzjkt.jpg

Landing (cases do not include more boxes
https://i.imgur.com/LyOBfZF.jpg

Spare room (these were recently added when the to-read pile became dangerous, predatory)
https://i.imgur.com/EABFoHO.jpg

Pile by the bed
https://i.imgur.com/N1uXxER.jpg

There's another substantial shelf at the end of the bed but I can't get a decent photo of it. Probably about another 100 books on there.

Hallway caption should read 'cases do not include more books'.

I love Omar's metal shelving. Everything in one place(ish) is the dream.

I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am -- and just reached a box labeled eagles / rockism (ftr "eagles" there less don henley, more dan dare)

interim photo below of shelves my friend luisa has designed and is building for me:
https://i.imgur.com/aTOpcja.jpg

will post more when they have books on them

it might not be good to place books right above that storage heater, perhaps make that a trinket zone!

delighted to see you’ve got the space your books deserve. it’ll be a handsome wall when you’re done. inclined to agree with calz on the heater. as well as curled and desiccated pages, any dust will be delightfully lifted and convected (i suppose that should be conveyed) around your domicile.

my solution tbh is just not to turn that heater on -- it's the library-corridor, you can wear a duffelcoat and mittens ffs

tfw you get them out of difft boxes in quick succession and realise that spike milligan and gary indiana *do* belong thematically next to one another on the shelves

ppl i have way too many fkn books abt music , every time i get find the "last box" with this label there's another one underneath

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-xLQG7WUAA6oOZ?format=jpg&name=small

my bookshelf is pathetic and did used to be rammed to the point of collapsing, but about 18 months ago I had a minor nervous breakdown and burnt about 70% of them. You can't beat a good old book-burning and drinking sesh as an alternative to going into therapy!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTESL4XXoAAtxGZ?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSvq8ykWQAIS5E1?format=jpg&name=small
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSvomN_XwAAg8yW?format=jpg&name=large

Love it : )

Here are the collecteds and the chapbooks
https://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3472.jpeg

Poetry A-Saijo on the shelves, to-be-read on top
https://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3473.jpeg

Poetry Scalapino-Zultanski
https://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3474.jpeg

Hodge-podge shelf of magazines, paper ephemera, found photographs, oversized poetry, and history books
https://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3475.jpeg

Literary journals and magazines, complete Shakespeare, Oxford Study Bible, Benveniste, etc.
https://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3476.jpeg

VHS and DVDs, music books, oversized art books, memoirs, ecology writing and trail guides, art, theory, anthologies-- all the stuff that doesn't have spines facing out is to-be-read or looked-at, as most are art books.
https://archive.org/details/img-3478_202311/IMG_3477.jpeg

Fiction, plus some oversized art books, object, and publications...and the complete run from a press I used to edit for, on top.
https://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3478.jpeg

Art books and records, the only shelf not in my little office
https://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3479.jpeg

Wow

Even when i was living out of a car, i kept a storage space. I'm glad I did.

Jesus, calzino :(

"book buying problem"

music books from north to south

https://i.imgur.com/h1JFkgs.jpg

south to north is more higgledy-piggledy tbh: some fiction, some art & design, some theory, music starts roughly at the arch*

https://i.imgur.com/JpO74cz.jpg

*the arch is the side of this little building, the corridor is literally a bridge between two buildings, this is the best flat ever -- two bits joined by a bridge, it's like venice here in plymouth

Jean Baudrillard, what did your bookshelves look like?

https://i.imgur.com/qFWNHot.jpg

If mark ever turns his house into a bookstore I’m going to ask him “are all of these your books?”

I really wish I had taken a picture of the double-sided bookcase wall dividing the upper floor of my cabin before that cabin burned down.

The shelves stretched between the cabin's support posts that ran down the middle of the room. When the shelves were empty you could see through them from one side of the room to the other, but when they were full they formed a wall so I had a guest room.

I moved out before it burned down, so I only lost a few of my books that I hadn't bothered to move yet.

(bumping thread so my bookmarks to now-deleted posts stop reporting thread is updated when it isn't)

just here to report that my shelves aren't actually metal but built-ins painted dark green to match the walls!

I feel better now about the state of my 13 year old son's room.

jimbeaux, in all fairness, i have been like this since i was younger than 13. also i refuse to throw away good cardboard, i just used about half of the empty boxes in my photos to ship things off today.