Stevie B
Current Member
Looks great, Benny. Just curious if your library has also expanded to your bathroom. If so, it's a sign that your collection has grown out of control.
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Stevie B
Current Member
My collection is so organized that I haven't posted pictures yet as it would put my anal retentiveness on full display.^WOW, your bookcase is so neat!
I just put books in haphazardly, no system at all, LOL
Benny Profane
Well-known member
Yep. This wall had no utility here (it was a weight loss).^WOW, your bookcase is so neat!
I just put books in haphazardly, no system at all, LOL
My mom and I decide to put custom-made bookcases there.
Those bookcases are made by Naval MDF (that are indestructible).
Benny Profane
Well-known member
Looks great, Benny. Just curious if your library has also expanded to your bathroom. If so, it's a sign that your collection has grown out of control.
Not yet! This room on the left of that picture is my bedroom. But there some books on my bed. Hahahahaha
nagisa
Spiky member
Ooooh, this thread is wonderful! You all have such beautiful libraries
Mine, unfortunately, looks more or less like this since moving out from my ex's in Paris while I work in Florence ? View attachment 778
But I do have a couple of pics from years ago, before I had to dismantle my library. Apologies for the potato quality, bad visibility, and incompleteness (notably missing is my Beckett, Japanese, and comics/art shelves). First pic is mostly francophone publication, second is mostly anglophone.
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I miss having a "room of my own", with my own library.
Still just a fraction since so much is left in France, but I've been rescuing suitcases of books from the boxes and I think I have a pretty decent collection ??
Ben Jackson
Well-known member
Are you serious?? This is a fraction? How many books do you've then in total?
I realise I've never posted my stacks and should do before I go the same way as the Collyer brothers.
So here's some shelves and piles, and bags of hardbacks under my desk. Behind the computer there's a horror section, too.
I keep fiction in this room. There's a double book case of cookery books in another room, and a case full of non-fiction in another.
So here's some shelves and piles, and bags of hardbacks under my desk. Behind the computer there's a horror section, too.
I keep fiction in this room. There's a double book case of cookery books in another room, and a case full of non-fiction in another.
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Chandos MD
Member
Not going to be fun to move cities next year with all of this in tow but I've already gotten rid of all the books I could stand getting rid of
tiganeasca
Moderator
Glad to know I'm not the only person in the world who owns that particular Burton edition of the the Thousand and One Nights!
Chandos MD
Member
I found the set used + 50% off I couldn’t refuse
Bartleby
Moderator
what a beautiful collection! the best thing, tho, has got to be that Joanna Newsom LP ?
Liam
Administrator
As someone who also moved cities earlier this year, I do not envy you, my friend, ?
Just out of curiosity, what are the two cities in your case?
Leseratte
Well-known member
That looks like me when I still had my books.
Chandos MD
Member
Not sure yet—I’m graduating from med school next Spring, I’m definitely leaving San Antonio and probably also Texas (there’s only one program I like enough to keep me here). I find out where in March
What happened to them?
Leseratte
Well-known member
I had to get rid of all my physical books because of an severe insect infection.
Leseratte
Well-known member
By the way. How are the cats?She's VERY sweet! No so-called "tortie-tude" AT ALL!
Liam
Administrator
I think you mean "infestation", not "infection," but THAT is literally my worst fear! I feel like even losing my books in a fire would be easier to bear than having to throw them out myself because of a bedbug infestation or something, ?
Leseratte
Well-known member
Yes, "infestation", thanks for the correction, Liam. They are terrible mites. They get everywhere they can. My book collection was about 50 years old and there were new books I hadn´t read yet.