Shelf lives
Bookshelf of famous person (whose name we forgot to take down) at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. If you know whose shelf this is give us a holler.
Bookshelf of James Franco that he posted on Twitter. Is that a large-type illustrated edition of The Great Gatsby? Is that a beer? Look, a Cartman doll. We have the same edition of Gravity’s Rainbow.
Our bookshelf, #6 of 8. Koosi is the guardian. We like rubber duckies and NYRB Classics. And we do have a lot of books about Stalin.
Send us a photo of your bookshelf. koosiobrien@gmail.com.
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Hmmm Stoppard, Papp, Kazan, Tynan. . .I smell a theatre critic! And I am right! Bookshelf of Gibbs, who writes about theatre and the arts. Corner brackets bookshelves: aesthetically pleasing and an excellent space-saving idea.
We don’t even have to read the spines to know the profession of the owner of this bookshelf. Dianne is a lawyer or law student. Wait, where’s the bookshelf? She hasn’t found the right one. In the meantime, this…theoretical shelf is also a weight training program.
This is the bookshelf of siblings Kim and Rex in Leyte. We cannot read the spines but we recognize that edition of the Marquis De Sade, rightmost, fourth shelf from the top.
This shelf belongs to Hans who just graduated from college. Lots of graphic novels in it. Oh look, Black Hole. We hear David Fincher is going to make the movie.
Red’s just moved out of the parents’ house so the books are in boxes that double as chairs for guests. The Slap! Now out in paperback. People used to call them “pocketbooks”. Which also means handbags. Confusion. I know someone who makes a hollow in the middle of an old book and stashes money in it.
My favorite money-in-book story is that of my friend who found a hundred-dollar bill inside a second-hand book.
Koosi is the librarian. If you are not authorized to take a book from the shelf, slasssh! She also bites when she’s feeling frisky. Shelf 7 of 8. My sister and I have shared custody of the Lord of the Rings memorabilia. She has all the villains including the fell beast that she uses as a mobile. The hero action figures are in their original boxes (geeks) but we take them out and play with them sometimes.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
March 7th, 2011 at 01:35
And to make an internet bookshelf, there’s Shelfari and LibraryThing (and others).
March 7th, 2011 at 03:13
ca. 1763, designed by Robert Adam for George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry
March 7th, 2011 at 09:58
My bookshelves are dusty and overstacked. I’m too cheap to buy one more and there is no more space in my little cave.
March 7th, 2011 at 11:37
This is timely. A well-loved secondhand bookstore recently closed shop in my town, and the owners sold (gave, more like it) me over 6,000 books for a song–definitely less than what I paid or my Kindle! So I’ve been scouring the net for shelf designs to house my windfall. Arranging all these would be more of a challenge. Should it be by genre, author, title? Size? These are nice problems to have…
March 7th, 2011 at 11:50
Check out Bookshelf Porn. http://bookshelfporn.com/
6,000++ books will require card catalogue and Dewey Decimal System.
Trivia: Buddy Zabala of the Eraserheads majored in library science. In case you want to consult a rock star about your shelves.
March 7th, 2011 at 12:18
Thank you branwen. I thought it was Samuel Johnson’s.
March 7th, 2011 at 12:41
Looking at Shelf #6, my eyes immediately zero-ed in on Darth Vader. Is that C3PO to this left? Or HAL?
Anyway, I really should invest on a good bookshelf. My books are currently stored in the extra compartments of my Audio-Visual furniture.
March 7th, 2011 at 12:48
No it’s Duck Vader.
March 7th, 2011 at 14:53
Check out The ‘Bias of Thoughts’ bookshelf. Are there 3 shelves or 4?
http://www.neatorama.com/spotlight/2011/03/02/the-bias-of-thoughts-bookshelf/
March 7th, 2011 at 20:07
Just talked to Kim on the phone. Yes, you’re right it’s Marquis de Sade and surprisingly it’s still on that shelf. Anyways, it’s your book Twisted 8 1/2 on the bed.
She’s a university librarian but she hasn’t catalogued one single book. Bwahahahahahaha!
March 7th, 2011 at 20:31
Brilliant! We are what we read. I shall dust my shelves a bit, take a picture, and then submit!
March 7th, 2011 at 21:32
I loveeeee the shelves :D My bookshelf is blech and I’m looking forward to have another one made :D
March 7th, 2011 at 21:58
Ugh! I’m so jealous. I’ve wanted to have this nice irregular shelf bolted against my room’s bare wall but my dad won’t have any of it. I live with my parents. Sucks for me.
March 8th, 2011 at 11:53
I had mine kept in big “padala” boxes after being used and abused. I’m planning to make it a base of me and my future husband’s nuptial bed. I think it would be more romantic since I have been lying in bed of books since time immemorial.
March 9th, 2011 at 00:10
Wow! Where can you buy those boxes/chairs?
March 10th, 2011 at 10:03
Designing a small library now, thanks to print-outs from bookshelfporn.
Reading up on the DDS next.
Thanks, Jessica!