What do your books say about you? Picture thread...

[maes]

Post a photo of your book shelves/pile.

Mine are here.

 

[fogbat]

Most of my books are still in big blue plastic sacks, following our house getting done up by the landlord last year. Those that I've pulled out to read are scattered about my room and in my bed.

What this says about me is that I'm horribly disorganised, lazy, and have lots of books. Also, that I don't own a digital camera

I really need some bookshelves

 

[maes]

Yeah I did find some bookshelves on the street, lugged them home but still haven't put the books on them! I prefer my fireplace stack .

 

[fogbat]

Yeah I did find some bookshelves on the street, lugged them home but still haven't put the books on them! I prefer my fireplace stack .

I had these weird shelves put into this weird alcove in my tiny boxroom - they're about three times the width of normal shelves, so I'll have to find some non-standard way of stacking them, so they're all still reachable.

Plus the fucking builders nicked my proper bookshelf during their six-month "refurb" of our house

 

[bluestreak]

hmmm.... might have to be a few pics innit! will post on this later.

dread to think what it will say about me though...

 

[tastebud]

i had them in piles against walls, all round my room, as well as on a broken book case, but i have fairly recently acquired two huge shelving units from my old flatmate, so now they're all neat, on my shelves.
i don't know what this says about me.

 

[bluestreak]

i don't think it's about HOW they're stored, but what books you've got...

 

[Hocus Eye.]

You can see some of the covers of my books that I have so far catalogued:-

Here on Librarything

 

[fogbat]

Mine are here.

I hope those library books are going to be returned on time *stern look*

 

[ChrisC]

Post a photo of your book shelves/pile.

Mine are here.

Are yes that little gem, Complicity by Iain Banks.

 

[foo]

...that i like reading?

 

[BlackSpecs]

i LOVE analyzing peoples book-choice ! that and supermarket-baskets

 

[alsoknownas]

I have the book 'From Hell' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell
Wherever I put it on my shelf it makes a joke with the book next to it, like - 'Psychological Games... From Hell!", or 'Golf For Women... From Hell!", etc. etc.
... My how we laughed.

 

[Greebo]

Sorry, I don't have a lens with a wide enough angle. So you'll just have to visualise instead

Go through the Ikea catalogue until you come to the extra heavy duty wooden shelving. Done that? In the living room there are 4 of those units, fixed in series, each with 4 shelves. Each shelf (apart from the top row, where there's just one row) is completely full of books stacked on their sides, approx 12 separate stacks of books per shelf.
That is the leisure reading of my husband and I. The more factual stuff occupies the space above eye level in the hall, and partly lines the walls of the bedroom.

There are also a few dozen recipe books in the kitchen.

Before you ask, yes we have read most of them, some several times.

And I nearly forgot to mention his library books!

 

[Crispy]

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[ChrisC]

Nice Mac Crispy. Don't see many home users of Mac's.

 

[Crispy]

Nice Mac Crispy. Don't see many home users of Mac's.

my windows box died and I was fed up with being a tinkerer with it

 

[fogbat]

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I want your bookshelf, Crispy

 

[Dubversion]

You can see some of the covers of my books that I have so far catalogued:-

Here on Librarything

erm.. why?

 

[Dubversion]

Post a photo of your book shelves/pile.

Mine are here.

where are mine?

 

[Crispy]

I like the fact that 'Long Walk to Freedom' has a big picture of mandela on the spine so people can easily see that I have a copy. Never read the thing, though. Seen the size of it?!!

 

[ChrisC]

Long Walk to Freedom is a top book. You should try to read it. Shame Nelson's legacy and vision is not what SA is about today.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Good to see Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes and Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom making their customary appearance on every self-respecting booklover's shelves.

You can see some of the covers of my books that I have so far catalogued:-

Here on Librarything

What a great idea

 

[maes]

where are mine?

on another shelf! i WILL give them back to you soon, give me a time and a place.

 

[BlackSpecs]

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Catch 22 and The Illuminati-Trilogy ..... not bad !!!!But i am missing The Zombie Survival Handbook and sompe titels by Mr. Icke

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I did this a while ago on Flickr - there's a Group you can join too.

 

[Signal 11]

1, 2, 3, and a bit.

 

[Zorra]

1, 2, 3, and a bit.

You've got a copy of Rasta & Resistance too We have suspiciously similar taste in books...

 

[Dubversion]

on another shelf! i WILL give them back to you soon, give me a time and a place.

Paris in the springtime.

Anyway, about my books..

 

[Dubversion]

too many fucking Potter books on those shelves.