bighappygoth40 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Hi,I've just joined here. I've got three bookcases so far....all full to the brim but at the moment I'm in the process of thinning them out so they fit better...once thats done I'll post photos of them on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Univerze Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 My OCD is kicking in; those Lord of the Rings DVDs and books aren't in the correct order! Haha.. well honestly sometimes I care about that, sometimes I don't. This bookshelf is a temporary thing so to speak, since I currently still like with my mom, when I finish university, I'll get a place of my own (can't afford now ) and then I'll probably put everything in right order.. however now, I don't really care. I am not that OCD about my books etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 My OCD is kicking in; those Lord of the Rings DVDs and books aren't in the correct order! Oh god, I do that with books and DVD's .. not so much with CD's though .. I can deal with messing up their chronological order and my baked bean tins are randomly filed too so I'm only borderline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 My DVDs are kept in alphabetical order, but I don't have enought room for my books so they're all oddly stacked in boxes (well series have to go together) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Univerze Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 You put the same series books in the same boxes? Wow, when I have gotten to the point where I realize I have to box up books, I don't care where they are. And DVDs by alphabet? Would only do that if I had a very lot of DVDs... but I have maybe 1/4th as much DVDs as books. Am I saying that right? 4 times more books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I have hundreds of DVDs (bit obsessed with buying them really) so I have to keep them in order to know which ones are missing I have far less books (but still too many) I have two boxes with books to read, two with books already read, and a bookcase with a few of each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 I do like that staircase book shelf, but the alternating step size looks lethal to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 I want one of those book stairs!! It's AWESOME!! I'd want it in a darker wood though. And I would no doubt fall down it due to the crazy steps, but I want it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Agreed, I want some book stairs also. Hang the fact that I'm afraid of heights, they look the snazz! I've also always wanted a secret-passage bookshelf... maybe I could have one of those leading into my library which is constructed in a stair-casy way *schemes*? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 What I would do with my fake wall is, have it a wall on the OUTSIDE, but inside the book room make it a bookcase, incorporated into a line of similar bookcases, so when you close the door inside, it looks like you're in a room of books with no door Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 What I would do with my fake wall is, have it a wall on the OUTSIDE, but inside the book room make it a bookcase, incorporated into a line of similar bookcases, so when you close the door inside, it looks like you're in a room of books with no door My friend in the US has persuaded her hubby to build a library just like this in their new house *green with envy* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 My ideal library is in my head. It's a bit like the library in Sunnydale High (Buffy Season 1-3). I'd have a downstairs, with a little desk off to one side, the bookcase stairs leading up to a second floor about half the area of the ground floor, and have every single wall covered in bookcases, with stacks on the second floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I loved the library in Sunnydale High! I miss the library I had in my old house - shelves on 3 walls with a huge window on the 4th, a desk & office chair and a big old squishy armchair for reading *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I've never been in anything resembling a library room in person. I might actually bring some machinery and try to take it with me if I did. I would give ANYTHING to own a house with a library room, but I really don't see that ever happening I only have about 250 books anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I'd like to pretend i had a secret room but the shelf actually opens onto the outside. If you have someone over who is boring you just ask them if they want to see your secret room, problem solved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Well, I only had mine for 6 years - boo hiss to ex-boyfriends :motz:Will have a look and see if I still have any photos on my memory card! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Oh do please Fi, I'd LOVE to see it!! Man. To date a man who'd let me have a library. I don't even know any men in real life who read. *sobs* I'll die old and alone for want of a library Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 My ex-bf and I were terrible - both readers and about 8000 books between us! Better than my ex-husband who thought reading FHM counted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 8000 books?? How many of those are yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Ummm, about 5000 I have most of them in storage now until I get my own place again - I only have room for about 400 in the house I'm currently sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 5000 books.... Five....thousand........ I can't even imagine what that would look like on bookshelves. That's so cool. Out of those, how big is your TBR list? Sorry I know I'm asking all these questions lol, I'm just fascinated. I'd love to have that many books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I've probably read about 3000, maybe a few more. What you should probably know is that I've spent just over 10 years working as a bookseller so factor in freebies, proofs and staff discount - they soon mount up I've always been surrounded by books though, my parents have an office/library that was always stuffed to the gills with books too so to me, it's completely normal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 That's so awesome. And I'd love to be a bookseller too. I'd love my own bookshop! Just a small quiet one, as I think you already know, like in You've Got Mail. Awh. You're really lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Fi, you're a legend I cannot picture 5000 books in one place (in a home, not a library-library). And you having read 3000 books? Hats off to you, seriously! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi. Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Thanks Noll, I think I am pretty lucky - although I may not have a job much longer if this ****** surgery doesn't hurry up and happen I'd love to have my own bookshop, I even know exactly where it would be and how I'd have it set out! ETA - Thanks Frankie It might also be worth pointing out that I've kept just about every single book I've ever owned since the age of about 8! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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