Comments | wolfieboy: There is no "Too many books" only "not enough bookcases"

wolfieboy

There is no "Too many books" only "not enough bookcases"

Jan 11, 2006 23:56

So, I was just able to set the new bookcases that we got from Ikea. No more books on the floor hopefully. Well, at least for now.

books, house

Comments 10

urox January 12 2006, 08:07:39 UTC

What if you don't have enough space for all the bookcases?

space for bookcases wolfieboy January 12 2006, 16:36:41 UTC

That was part of the problem before now. But I figured out a way to put in more bookcases. I suspect that enough space will only last for so long…

ednoled January 12 2006, 09:30:47 UTC

But will there still be "books sitting two to three tomes deep" on each shelf?

Re: two tomes deep wolfieboy January 12 2006, 16:44:15 UTC

All the paperbacks will definitely still be two deep. There's no way we'd have the room otherwise.

Ah,,, a man after my own heart... sheherazahde January 12 2006, 15:43:09 UTC

Someday I will killed in a book slide. I don't have anywhere I can put another bookcase.

I'm still cataloging my collection but once I have it in the database I think I can organize it better.

5footwave January 12 2006, 17:58:02 UTC

A *fine* philosophy, that.

I need more bookshelves.

Books mba500 January 12 2006, 18:26:29 UTC

After reaching mass volume of books equal to everything else I owned I stop buying them and started using my local libraries. Of course back then I was in King County WA ranked third in the nation which had everything I dreamed up in terms of books.

These days I have access to a network of 80 libraries and although not as vast as King county it’ll do and it keeps me honest in terms of actually reading them in a timely fashion, turning them in and not taking up every single living space in my house.

Re: Books singingnettle January 12 2006, 20:16:50 UTC

Yeah, we try to do that too. Also if we buy something and it's not one we're going to read over and over, we give it away. We keep a chest around filled with books to be adopted...although now they're occupying a few shelves and get given to a used bookstore/library/hospital/whatever and rotated out if they don't get adopted off the shelf.