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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.
― MaresNest, Friday, 12 October 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/gJZFJQKv/image1-5.jpg
2 others that look m/l just like this but harder to get full pics of
― johnny crunch, Friday, 12 October 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
one shelf apiece from different bookcaseshttps://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1972/43455291800_798dcbbec8.jpg
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― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
love that tiny Poe
― Brad C., Friday, 12 October 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
Everyone has great books.
― jmm, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Poe is definitely the *smallest* book I own lol
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
I will try to post something once I've reorganized a bit. My three main bookcases are completely unsorted.
― jmm, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
jealous of Moodles' "Poster Art of Disney Parks" book, had no idea there was such a thing
xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
I also have that same paperback ed. of Infinite Jest everyone has but it's on the shelf I haven't photographed yet
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 12 October 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
so much Henry James!
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― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 October 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
new worlds
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― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 October 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
yr just posting that to make me jealous
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
You will have to visit the UK Shakey, the streets are littered with old copies of New Worlds.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 October 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
haha
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
heres more in good light
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― johnny crunch, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
Some Penguin Classics:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgmyCWmU8AA-_1M.jpg
The general sorry state of things:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZxyzlvU0AAqmYv.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 13 October 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
James thank you for posting that last one; I showed it to my partner as evidence that I am relatively normal
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 13 October 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
(Those Penguins though!)
Fuckin hell james
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 13 October 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
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!"
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 13 October 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
Wtf! James has a bookstore in his house
― calstars, Saturday, 13 October 2018 02:52 (five years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Saturday, 13 October 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Cyf8Rlm.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 October 2018 03:47 (five years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 13 October 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
Might come back here in several years and post mine.
cool, ill be waiting
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 13 October 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 13 October 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
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
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 13 October 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
nope i'm old, anyway it's here https://photos.app.goo.gl/heei5Rcd2UUfMTEf8
I think mine would stress people out
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 13 October 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Whole lotta Moorcock. Any recommendations?
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 October 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
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).
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 October 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
My last principal bookshelf, from the sadly defunct Ballard Bookcase Company.
http://spooky.camp/~evan/bookshelves/ballard.jpg
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, 14 October 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
(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
― Tim, Monday, 15 October 2018 10:01 (five years ago) link
I will do this in stages.
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They are double stacked, which obviously makes it impossible to find anything but keeps them off the floor.
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― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 15 October 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
Mostly art stuff:
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And the all-important Tintins:
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― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 15 October 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
Nice. Who's the 'man reading' painting by?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 15 October 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
It’s Egon Schiele’s portrait of Dr Hugo Koller.
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― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 15 October 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 15 October 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
do you have a checklist for those penguin classics sharivari
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 15 October 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
b/c wau
No, I have the catalogue somewhere but have never bothered checking them off. I should do, really.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 15 October 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 October 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Monday, 15 October 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
ShariVari has a _lot_ of good books
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
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― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
<3 Tiptree anthology
― sleeve, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
One of five bookcases. This is the tidiest and easiest to photograph.https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1903/31489243368_bd728abc08.jpgI try to shelve by height (to maximise space efficiency) and all my bookcases are double stacked.
― treefell, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:45 (five years 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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!
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― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:07 (ten months ago) link
Love it : )
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:16 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
Wow
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 23:30 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
Jesus, calzino :(
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 13 November 2023 02:42 (ten months ago) link
"book buying problem"
― calstars, Monday, 13 November 2023 03:44 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link