Post a photo of your bookshelf...

[Baeyer-Drewson]

There is occasionally an unintentional glimpse of the odd bookshelf in the various WAYWT threaks (honorable mentions; farmer, erk), and I always enjoy this when it happens.

Whenever I visit someones home I usually check out their bookshelf, typically without even thinking about doing so. I guess a bookshelf is a sort of character compass in many ways.

Please post a photo

displaying your love of books;

a thread for your shelf.

[Quiver]

i like this idea - interested to see ppls collections

[NESK]

will post once i move.

[Cool Story Hansel]

cant really see much at this image size but whatever. going to college in a different country (and having access to an incredible campus library) means i didnt take many books with me, so it's mostly stuff i had to read for class, and magazines.

[RandR]

cant really see much at this image size but whatever. going to college in a different country (and having access to an incredible campus library) means i didnt take many books with me, so it's mostly stuff i had to read for class, and magazines.

nice shelf, man!

I'll post up one of mine when I go back to my house tomorrow.

This thread is fantastic!

[bishop grimes]

Cool Story Hansel. Even though I have 0 rep power I tried giving you some for flat eric

[fallen angels]

where is landho at

[landho]

where is landho at

Things were different before the flood.

[Wolves]

Oh my god. I'm so jealous landho.

[Quiver]

wow looks like a miniature library

the elliott erwitt book looks delicious

[esoteric]

Very, very nice collection landho. I would be quite satisfied of a nice collection such as that.

[landho]

Bumping this thread because it never got the respect I felt it deserved.

[sybaritical]

I for one approve of this course of action.

[cyberPUNK]

with the advent of e-books i wonder what libraries 50 years from now will look like...definitely don't think physical books will be as common as they are today.

[gramps]

Obviously, a beginner's guide to photography is not present on these shelves.

[gramps]

More than the books I think I covet the femur bone you can see on the top shelf there.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

with the advent of e-books i wonder what libraries 50 years from now will look like...definitely don't think physical books will be as common as they are today.

I think books will always exist in much the same way that photographs do today. The rise of digital photography means that printed photographs are not strictly necessary, yet people will always continue to print and display photos for various reasons.

As soon as an ergonomic, multi-format e-reader is available I will almost certainly buy it and it will replace a large portion of my current bookshelf. But at the same time I do like holding a physical book in my hands as I read it. I own various first editions, library bindings, and signed copies of certain books and they are some of my most treasured possessions.

I think you're right cyberPUNK, books will always exist in the future, but they will be much less common and therefore more valuable. I think digital books will almost entirely replace the whole mass market publication industry.

[FabGeek]

will post later, wanted to save this thread, beginning my book collection. I wanted to get all classics but i got sucked into others, as well as putting my art shit in shelves where they dont belong and take up to much room.

[landho]

gramps, some closeups please!

[skistar]

pretty weak but I've been moving a lot and can only bring a small selection.

not on the shelf: every book John Grisham has written, loved those back in the day, probably time to quickly re read the old favorites.

[Quiver]

On ebooks yh, obviously doesnt feel the same as a real book. (Got the iriver story recently as a gift and i'd much prefer ink on paper.) They're also supposedly a good ice breaker with the opposite sex, and so that'll be no longer viable if we all start using tablets.

Anyway, i like bookshelves around the place. Makes for good decoration. i'll have to remember to post pics once i move and hook up internet.

i echo landho on this thread deserving more life.

[sawyer]

im a bit of a transient so i dont have a bookshelf, the books i have loved are scattered here and there, so here is a list of books that would be on my shelf if i had one:

the prophet - kahlil griban

a sand county almanac - aldo leopold

the condition of postmodernity - david harvey

moby dick - herman melville

poems 1923-1954 - e e cummings

remnants of the first earth - ray a young bear

black eagle child - ray a young bear

lone ranger and tonto fist fight in heaven - sherman alexie

imagined communities - benedict anderson

be here now - ram dass

dialectical materialism - henri lefebvre

hagakure - yamamoto tsunetomo

love in the time of cholera - garbiel garcia marquez

the andromeda strain - michael crichton

the waste land - t s eliot

a small place - jamaica kincaid

and a bunch of mens fashion magazines, of course

hm not a lot of books here like you guys have but theyre books i could read any time. theres a lot of books out there i like like american psycho or invisible man but i dunno if id buy them

[sawyer]

and some issues of wooden boat magazine, and a few from adbusters, they had a few good ones

[Deadramones]

this is a cool thread. Wall of books = megafap

[Baeyer-Drewson]

HOLY SHIT!! A friend just alerted me to this;

http://bookshelfporn.com/archive

I could spend hours on this site... please feel free to post your faves in the thread.

[duck sauce]

rest of my books are all in storage; my room is too small

[cord13]

rest of my books are all in storage; my room is too small

+rep for dawkins.

[Quiver]

faves from the porn link bayer posted above

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Some of my faves from the link:

Christopher Cob installation piece where 20 000 books in a bookstore were arranged by colour gradient

Hella mobile library

Bookshelf staircase in a London apt

Old theater converted to bookstore

[thelion1856]

here is my collection, racked in my closet....

left to right..