Re: This One I Cannot Help With.dolorous_ettNovember 20 2005, 18:31:25 UTC
I imagine you have a wonderful book collection - everything from Confucius to the right way to cure a ham. That would be a sight worth seeing, I'm sure. All that encyclopedic knowledge had to come from somewhere, after all.
Books are wonderful and beautiful and amazing things, and so shiny, too, except when they're not, and then they have character and roughness and are still lovely.
I can't help you in this matter. I have, in fact, run out of walls on which to place new bookshelves in my tiny little home.
Oh goodness. I'm really not going to be helpful in the slightest. I've already overflowed my current bookshelf in the space of three months, and this doesn't count the (literal) walls of books I've left in both my parents' houses. I'm an addict. I admit to it. In my nine months in Cambridge, I acquired about 90 books in my tiny single room, not counting the ones I brought with me in the first place...
Shelves are good. I don't know if anyone in the UK carries collapsible bookshelves, but I've got five of them and they are absolutely wonderful. Of course, if you've got minimal wall space, you could also try tables with shelves underneath, or possibly hanging shelves so they aren't actually showing up on the floor and the wall; just up high.
Joining the local lending library helped me a little on that score - at least it cuts down on the "I wonder if I'll like that" type bookbuying. Obviously works best for mainstream, classic or new books. They also have the advantage of selling on books for a negligible price when they've finished with them. Or take up reading obscure philosophical texts from the university library?
Never mind, as vices go, it's a pretty cheap and convenient one :-)
The library is really a very good idea. I must do taht.
They also have the advantage of selling on books for a negligible price when they've finished with them.
This isn't a point in their favour right now! Though I've benefited happily from library sales in the past, I've also tended to pick up books I liked very much when I read them in the library, to be sure of instant access at all times...
Never mind, as vices go, it's a pretty cheap and convenient one
There is that. And no-one has yet to suggest that books are carcinogenic...
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A good point - and there is a bit of scope for that.
Unfortunately, I live in a small flat, and there is also a distinct shortage of WALLS.
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Thanks anyway, though.
And your little hedgehog icon is gorgeous!
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I can't help you in this matter. I have, in fact, run out of walls on which to place new bookshelves in my tiny little home.
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I bet your bookshelves are a sight for sore eyes - all those brilliant novels AND exciting things about cataclysmic geological upheavals. Kaboom!
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Shelves are good. I don't know if anyone in the UK carries collapsible bookshelves, but I've got five of them and they are absolutely wonderful. Of course, if you've got minimal wall space, you could also try tables with shelves underneath, or possibly hanging shelves so they aren't actually showing up on the floor and the wall; just up high.
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And underneath things isn't a bad plan. Hmmm...
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Never mind, as vices go, it's a pretty cheap and convenient one :-)
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They also have the advantage of selling on books for a negligible price when they've finished with them.
This isn't a point in their favour right now! Though I've benefited happily from library sales in the past, I've also tended to pick up books I liked very much when I read them in the library, to be sure of instant access at all times...
Never mind, as vices go, it's a pretty cheap and convenient one
There is that. And no-one has yet to suggest that books are carcinogenic...
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