Crazy bookshelves and libraries | Bookshelf Porn

Eliot Rosewater

I was sent this link to a website that has loads of pictures of crazy bookshelves and libraries: http://bookshelfporn.com/archive

I found this page through that site: 20 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries.


Do any members here have any cool bookshelves? Perhaps we should have a "picture of my shelf thread".

Denerick

Oooooh... If I could upload pictures I'd be all over this..

dr gonzo

Wow, great find. One of the 20 best libraries in the world is some guys private library, spectacular and locked away in the mental vault for when i win the euro millions.

The Mad Hatter

dr gonzo wrote: »

Wow, great find. One of the 20 best libraries in the world is some guys private library, spectacular and locked away in the mental vault for when i win the euro millions.

I laughed when I saw his name was Jay Walker. Think you'll have to do a bit better than the Euro Millions to reproduce that, though.

Eliot Rosewater

dr gonzo wrote: »

Wow, great find. One of the 20 best libraries in the world is some guys private library, spectacular and locked away in the mental vault for when i win the euro millions.

Yeah, if I had a bit of money when building a house I would definitely try and do something special with the library. (Obviously on a far smaller scale to Mr Walker's!). It couldn't be more boring than my current library:



All in alphabetical order.



(I have resisted the urge to stack my most pretentious books in one pile and photo them. )

Damian Duffy

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

Yeah, if I had a bit of money when building a house I would definitely try and do something special with the library. (Obviously on a far smaller scale to Mr Walker's!). It couldn't be more boring than my current library:



All in alphabetical order.



(I have resisted the urge to stack my most pretentious books in one pile and photo them. )

We have a very similar book collection, I'll upload a picture of mine when I get home at the weekend. Nice to see Kurkov there.

Eliot Rosewater

Damian Duffy wrote: »

Nice to see Kurkov there.

Boards.ie bookclub!

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dr gonzo

Thats a well read Odyssey which is great to see, i hope the iliad is in there somewhere.

DonnieScribbles

Thought I'd post my mess of a book storage system after seeing Mr. Rosewater's very neat bookshelf above!





I don't have the luxury of shelves, so I employ a stacking method

I get most of my books in charity shops, so it's a mixed bag. I prefer used books anyway. They're cheaper, obviously, but they're also pre-creased, pliant and ready for me to read :P

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raah!

Funny story about the trinity library. Me and my friend went in there to see the book of kells in first year cos it were free. So we were looking at it, and he starts larking about going "publius mublius blooblius", as one does. Then some americans came along; "oh my gaaawd, that's beuuutiful, what are you saaaying".

Hohohohoh.

Edit: A nice library does have it's detractors though. I always feel a bit guilty when I ruin the aesthetic of my shelf with a horrid rectangle of incongruent emptiness. Normally I try to fill in gaps with books form unfinished shelves while I'm re-reading something.

Eliot Rosewater

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On reflection, I don't that many books that well and truly pretentious; give me a year or two and I'll oblige.

Valmont

What is a pretentious book? Apart from Finnegan's Wake, that is.:D

Chinafoot

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

All in alphabetical order.

You mean you haven't separated your non-fiction and given them dewey numbers?? :P I do that with mine, but I work in a library so I'm naturally obsessive about my books.

Eliot Rosewater

dr gonzo wrote: »

Thats a well read Odyssey which is great to see, i hope the iliad is in there somewhere.

Actually, I've never read it. It came in the condition from BookMooch!

Chinafoot wrote: »

I do that with mine, but I work in a library so I'm naturally obsessive about my books.

That's hardcore! I do have my fiction and non-fiction separated, the former being the alphabetised ones.

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Travel is good

I love all those photos of your bookshelves! Keep them coming! The untidier the better.

Censorsh!t

Here's half my bookshelf anyway, excuse all the things in the way



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BopNiblets

Awesome one.

Paddy Samurai

BopNiblets wrote: »

Awesome one.

Must be a minimalist reader , not a lot on the shelves.

Denerick

I don't know why they are coming out so large. Anyway... Here ya go:

Fiction:


Non-Fiction:

DonnieScribbles

It's fun cross checking the pictures to see who has the same titles.

Some very fuzzy non-fiction there, Denerick :P

Denerick

Yeah, I don't know why it came out like that. The massive pictures are a good way of seeing each individual title though, which is good...

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fjon

I want to see more!




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Travel is good

I like that one! I love John Irving too!

Seriously, I love all the book shelves. It's so interesting seeing other people who have the same books as me.

Valmont

I think the guy spent so long building his pacman bookshelf he forgot to actually keep reading. There are only about twenty books on that thing.

Asphyxia

BopNiblets wrote: »

That is just amazing!

Crazyivan 1979

Great idea for a thread.

Will post one of my home shelf tomorrow. My one in the office is quite boring.

Hey Donnie, the camera at the bottom of your bookshelf, is it a Zenit-E?

Damian Duffy

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I want to see more!




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Alphabetical order, brilliant!

DonnieScribbles

Crazyivan 1979 wrote: »

Hey Donnie, the camera at the bottom of your bookshelf, is it a Zenit-E?

No, it's an Olympus OM-10, shamefully underused and missing a lens cap!

kylith

A small selection of my books


My new bookshelf set up, I'm still in the process of sorting out which books I want to bring down from the study (it's not a study, it's a box room with shelves that I call the study)

Whippersnapper

From a few years ago:

Crazyivan 1979

BopNiblets

I gots some:

LenaClaire

I had to sell most of my books when I moved so I am down from 3 double stuffed bookshelves and two underbed drawers of books to just one small bookshelf. Very sad I figure the longer I am here the more I will accumulate though!

Paddy Samurai

These are the ones i have read.
















These are the books i have yet to read...LOL...just need a few more hours in the day.

Old Perry

Haven got any pics of my own shelves at moment but will definitly post some when possible, however i was in that library in Melk a while ago and it is a pretty amazing place, if any of ye are ever in Austria try take a trip to this little town you wont be disappointed heres some pics of the library (sorry their such bad quality only had a point and shoot cam)

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Entrance to library.

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Some scrolls kept in a pretty modern/out of place looking figure of eight.

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The main room of the library

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One of the two ancient and pretty cool globes on either side of the room

Eliot Rosewater

If you (plural, everyone) are ever in London then a trip to the exhibition space in the British Library is mandatory. On display they've a whole treasure trove of goodies: the Beowulf manuscript, original notes and drafts from authors such as Joseph Conrad and Jane Austen, the first handwritten copy of Alice In Wonderland, one of the Gutenberg Bibles, some pages from Leonardo DaVinci's notebooks, one of the original copies of Magna Carta, a letter by Charles Darwin and the Antarctic diary of Robert Scott opened at the page where he recorded Lawrence Oates' final words "I am just going outside and me be some time" amongst many other things.

Arguably one of the best rooms in the whole world.

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Eliot Rosewater

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St. Pancras! The room is called the Sir John Ritblat Gallery, by the way. They've a full inventory on the website, but I think the surprise of seeing all these gems is part of the magic of a visit there. (I wasn't expecting anything like this when I visited.)

I never realised that about Marx. I didn't get a chance to visit the British Museum when I was in London, unfortunately.

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Eliot Rosewater

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I'm wondering who makes more sense - Morrison or Marx?

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Yes, I'll certainly do that! I shall have to go over to London for at least a week dedicated to tourism, next time. I saw a lot in my two weeks over there for the Science Forum, but it seemed as if I missed even more.

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