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[johnny9fingers]

ankh156 took this shot of my study when he was over buying keyboard stuff last year.

 

It's one of four bookcases in my study. Most shelves are double or triple stacked. But the lovely thing is I know my library. If I need to check on something I know where I can put my hands on the information, I know in which section the book will be (unless I've loaned it out). There are just under two thousand books in my study, (and another thousand or so dotted about the flat) which means they get dusted but once a year. At the moment there are something like a hundred and fifty books in piles on the floor. waiting to be catalogued and put back in shelves about my flat. There is never enough space for books. Perhaps I should simplify and try to live a bookless life.

I haven't contemplated booklessness before.

Thanks to ankh156for the photo. I don't take photos. I've tried recently but really....

Comments

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i like the way there are nice plain boxes on the top. most feng shui.
i have gone bookless, but only because my career is over and the books were nagging me with spite. it is nice and tidy, but i am buying two of these
one to go in the sitting room with what remains of books, object based music, photos, etc, one for the bedroom, where i intend to be able to see my clothes LIKE IN A SHOP!!!!

I used to have a shelf like that

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

I found it in the old Rex Cinema in Cambridge before it was demolished. (I squatted in St Luke's street nearby.) Kept it for years. Had it full of books.

Re: I used to have a self like that

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i will have a self like that, or even a shelf!

Re: I used to have a shelf like that

[e4q.livejournal.com]

shelf indeed.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The boxes are full of ten years worth of TLS's and Private Eyes. I can see an e-bay sale ahead.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

aaargh! i wish you hadn't told me that!

although, it could be worse, they could be out, marauding dustily somewhere...