what do your bookshelves look like?

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.