Stack, Pile, Box or Shelve Your Books?
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When I moved into my current apartment, I estimated I had 2,000 books, though I am sure the friends helping me move suspected it was more than that. A few years later and I am guessing it's now a minimum of 3,000. This may be small or huge to you, but to me it's a good size.
Recently, I asked some friends to help me clean up my apartment and get it much more organized. One of the ways they did this was to build me some bookshelves. The results are in the picture above. This represents about 2/3 of my collection, with many of those shelves double deep. There are several other bookcases and one that is devoted to books I don't consider "reading" books - craft books, art books, cookbooks, etc.
I do plan to purge soon. I expect to get rid of about 500 books or so (and hire movers when I leave this apartment). That's still a lot of books, which I am good with. I am happiest when surrounded by books.
My timing, of course, was impeccable. I was going to mention here how the project was going when I noticed that Barnes and Noble was asking people to send in pics of their collections. Check out their Facebook page for what was sent in (as well as for lots of other neat tidbits).
I haven't sent in mine, but I am curious to see yours. How do you have your books organized? Are they even organized at all or are they piles? If you're on Facebook, post them on RT's profile. If not, leave a comment and tell us about it.
Nicole
posted at 4:54 PM
5 Comments:
I store mine in rubbermaid crates. I have too many books for a bookcase.
I store mine on shelves, boxes, my current favorites on bedstand, solve issue of overcrowding by giving many books away to people that will actually read them!!:) Bill
I wish I had that kind of space!
I stash my paperbacks in every nook and corner I find.
:)
G.
Mine are on shelves,end tables, some in boxes and corner piles. My Christmas collection is stored with Christmas decorations.
and I download ebooks mostly by torrent search engine and have no problems at all, storing them easily at my pc:))) still, no doubt about it, in spite of all this progress, nothing gives more pleasure than reading a real paper book holding it in your hands.
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