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26 August 2006

Bump up the Books... extending our Photo Friday. The theme is "your bookshelves", and images have been posted here and here .
Forgot my caption.

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.
posted by Miko 26 August | 09:34
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.
posted by taz 26 August | 10:06
My bookcase is full to bursting.
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I have more books piled on the floor.
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posted by essexjan 26 August | 11:31
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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.
posted by BoringPostcards 26 August | 11:49
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 ≡
posted by mygothlaundry 26 August | 12:10
Oh yeah, if you want to actually read the titles, here they are.
posted by mygothlaundry 26 August | 12:42
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!
posted by safetyfork 26 August | 12:46
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.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 26 August | 13:11
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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.
posted by tommasz 26 August | 14:32
Here's mine, with a furry wolf on top!
posted by WolfDaddy 26 August | 14:36
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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!
posted by redvixen 26 August | 19:55
OOps, I duplicated one picture! Sorry!
posted by redvixen 26 August | 20:04
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.
posted by Mrs.Pants 29 August | 14:58
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(Click to enlarge.)
posted by shane 31 August | 21:59
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