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I weeded out my books during my big moves. For a time a policy was in effect: I only kept books I would re-read, loan out, or use for reference. Too harsh! I must have given away three times the books I kept, and it means that almost all of what I still have are the big Classics, serious favorites, or reference books. The weeding-out seemed logical at the time, but now I regret it. Books are a timeline of life. There's also one more shelf this size in the house, a shelf full at work, and various piles throughout the place.

The cookbooks and cooking magazines live on a kitchen shelf. On the left, that's a couple years' worth of Cooking Light, which is easily one of the best cooking magazines out there.

Yeah... Books is hard. I've given away or sold maybe five or six times more than I have currently, and it sucks. Before we left the U.S., I had one entire bookcase just for recipe/food books and magazines. The three things I most regret leaving behind when we moved overseas: 3/4 of my books, a bookcase that was handmade by a friend, a huge, honking beautiful framed mirror handmade by mr. taz.

My bookcase is full to bursting.
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I have more books piled on the floor.
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When I repainted my bedroom in June, I gave away about a third of my book collection.

My partner on the other hand has two bookcases that take up an entire wall of his study/office... he's the literate one in the family.

My bookshelf collage: this is actually five different bookshelves from around the house, morphed into one hideous monster bookshelf of unnatural life! ≡ Click to see image ≡

Oh yeah, if you want to actually read the titles, here they are.

Let me take you on a tour of the books in my apartment. And damn, as I'm typing this I noticed a small bookcase I neglected. Alas...

The living room has one tall bookcase:
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And, a desktop that serves as some kind of a book stop for books out from the shelves:
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OK. It's just a two-room apartment. On to the bedroom. The bed is framed by two bookshelves. I wasn't able to get the bottom shelf of each in the following shots, they're the same size shelf as the one in the living room.

Right side:
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Left side:
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And a third bookshelf on the opposite wall:

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And, finally -- I know it's redundant, but one of the cats was getting artistic with framing this shot:

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Them's the books!

We've crammed books into a few places here at the Slack household. Most of the books are in the living room...

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We've got most of our art and graphics books on top of some CD shelves...

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And right next to the stereo are the main "go-to" music books that serve as a sort of rock reference library...

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I forgot the cookbooks in the kitchen and some more music books over some more CD shelves, but that's most of them.

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One of my bookshelves. This one is in my computer/music room so it's got a little of everything on it.

Here's mine, with a furry wolf on top!

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This is the bookcase in our living room. As you can see, I collect antique books!
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The bottom half of the bookcase in the living room.
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This shelf is above our picture window in the living room. I just went through and got rid
of books that held no interest anymore.
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And this shelf is in my bedroom. I have more books near the kids' room,
and in my shed. I'm a bookaholic!

OOps, I duplicated one picture! Sorry!

here are the shelves and piles in the living room :

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my desk is too messy for me to show you the many many books stacked and crammed around it in my bedroom.

i do love books.

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