Lorraine Louie was the besthttps://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-artist-whose-book-covers-distilled-the-nineteen-eighties
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 29 October 2023 03:16 (six months ago) link
Never knew all that, thanks.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 October 2023 14:29 (six months ago) link
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
― omar little, Sunday, 29 October 2023 15:45 (six months ago) link
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
Hallwayhttps://i.imgur.com/OnIzjkt.jpg
Landing (cases do not include more boxeshttps://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 bedhttps://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.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 29 October 2023 18:29 (six months ago) link
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 would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 29 October 2023 18:31 (six months ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2023 11:38 (five months ago) link
it might not be good to place books right above that storage heater, perhaps make that a trinket zone!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 12 November 2023 11:48 (five months ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 12 November 2023 12:01 (five months ago) link
my solution tbh is just not to turn that heater on -- it's the library-corridor, you can wear a duffelcoat and mittens ffs
― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2023 12:25 (five months ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2023 14:29 (five months ago) link
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
― mark s, Sunday, 12 November 2023 14:54 (five months ago) link
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=largehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSvq8ykWQAIS5E1?format=jpg&name=smallhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSvomN_XwAAg8yW?format=jpg&name=large
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:07 (five months ago) link
Love it : )
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:16 (five months ago) link
Here are the collecteds and the chapbookshttps://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3472.jpeg
Poetry A-Saijo on the shelves, to-be-read on tophttps://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3473.jpeg
Poetry Scalapino-Zultanskihttps://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3474.jpeg
Hodge-podge shelf of magazines, paper ephemera, found photographs, oversized poetry, and history bookshttps://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 officehttps://archive.org/download/img-3478_202311/IMG_3479.jpeg
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:28 (five months ago) link
Wow
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:30 (five months ago) link
Even when i was living out of a car, i kept a storage space. I'm glad I did.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:31 (five months ago) link
Jesus, calzino :(
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 13 November 2023 02:42 (five months ago) link
"book buying problem"
― calstars, Monday, 13 November 2023 03:44 (five months ago) link
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
― mark s, Monday, 13 November 2023 10:54 (five months ago) link
Jean Baudrillard, what did your bookshelves look like?
https://i.imgur.com/qFWNHot.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 November 2023 12:38 (five months ago) link
If mark ever turns his house into a bookstore I’m going to ask him “are all of these your books?”
― calstars, Monday, 13 November 2023 17:17 (five months ago) link
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.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 13 November 2023 18:04 (five months ago) link
(bumping thread so my bookmarks to now-deleted posts stop reporting thread is updated when it isn't)
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:28 (five months ago) link
just here to report that my shelves aren't actually metal but built-ins painted dark green to match the walls!
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:42 (five months ago) link
I feel better now about the state of my 13 year old son's room.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 22:46 (five months ago) link
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.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 23:50 (five months ago) link