Bookshelf Porn

[2curlydogs]

bookshelfporn.com/

Courtesy of a co-worker

[briedrew]

I drooled over several of these. I've already told DH that in the next house, I'm converting a small room to a library/study.

[duckduck]

Ooooohhh. Pretty!

I was ranting to my husband yesterday about bookcases. I get Country Living and Better Homes and Gardens and I swear each one has at least two ideas for how to "decorate" bookcases in every issue. "Put framed pictures on the shelves!" "Unused bookcases are a great place to display collections." One decorator suggested going to thrift stores to buy any old random books you found to fill up the space and make the room look cultured.

It enrages me illogically that there are empty bookcases out there when I am in such desperate need of more.

[2curlydogs]

Jun 25, 2012 14:06:25 GMT -5 duckduck said:

Ooooohhh. Pretty!

I was ranting to my husband yesterday about bookcases. I get Country Living and Better Homes and Gardens and I swear each one has at least two ideas for how to "decorate" bookcases in every issue. "Put framed pictures on the shelves!" "Unused bookcases are a great place to display collections." One decorator suggested going to thrift stores to buy any old random books you found to fill up the space and make the room look cultured.

It enrages me illogically that there are empty bookcases out there when I am in such desperate need of more.

Part of me always appreciates the aesthetics of a strategically decorated bookshelf a la Pottery Barn or something. But the bookworm in me find the actual execution laughable. I have stacks of books on top of my bookshelves because I have no where else to put them (well, and have them displayed. I have cabinet space downstairs but....).

[GilliC]

Along the same lines, I looked at all the pretty color-coordinated bookshelf pics on TN and kept thinking, "How do you find anything?!" In my new flat, I decided to give it a try when I went to put my books away. I figured that if I went insane, I could always go back to sorting by subject and author.

Sure enough, it takes me forever to find anything, and sometimes I have to look it up on Goodreads to see what color it is! But the other day I was talking with DBF on Skype, and he was looking at the background and said, "You know, you may not be able to find anything, but the bookshelves do look pretty!" Somehow that made it all worth it.

[Nonny]

I am in need of more bookshelves to the point of keeping some of my books in a dresser in my guestroom ala Rory Gilmore.

[PinkSquirrel]

Jun 25, 2012 16:17:53 GMT -5 GilliC said:

Along the same lines, I looked at all the pretty color-coordinated bookshelf pics on TN and kept thinking, "How do you find anything?!" In my new flat, I decided to give it a try when I went to put my books away. I figured that if I went insane, I could always go back to sorting by subject and author.

Sure enough, it takes me forever to find anything, and sometimes I have to look it up on Goodreads to see what color it is! But the other day I was talking with DBF on Skype, and he was looking at the background and said, "You know, you may not be able to find anything, but the bookshelves do look pretty!" Somehow that made it all worth it.

I've never been one to organize books beyond cookbook shelf, my bookshelves, H's booksheves (that my books somehow wonder onto). I color coordinated on of my bookshelves and have found it surprisingly easier to find books because I tend to know what the cover of the book I'm looking for looks like so it's easier to just go to that color and start looking. It's also easy to put them away when they're sorted by color. I'm way to lazy to put them away where they belong if they were sorted by author.

[BlackCanary]

Jun 25, 2012 13:59:33 GMT -5 briedrew said:

I drooled over several of these. I've already told DH that in the next house, I'm converting a small room to a library/study.

Same here.

[BravoBravo]

I only have a small book shelf now. I donated all but my favorites and just read ebooks.


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[whitepicketfence]

Love these!

[duckduck]

Jun 26, 2012 7:21:32 GMT -5 BravoBravo said:

I only have a small book shelf now. I donated all but my favorites and just read ebooks.

I'm trying! My downfall is that I had such a huge collection of books growing up. I can't get rid of them. There's too much sentimental attachment to everything that I got up through the end of college.

Now I try to borrow from the library, get the ebook, or donate any physical books immediately after reading unless I give them an A++. My Nook has saved us at least an entire bookshelf. DH is grateful.

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I didn't like any of these, to me everything just looked like a jumbled mess and not organized the way a bookshelf should be. I would go nutty looking at disorganization like that.

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A lot of those give me mini anxiety attacks. I have a slight OCD about bookshelves being "neat and organized" (I have to have all books by size.) I think that is partly why I like my nook so much---it CAN'T bother me like that.

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I love books and love reading, but I guess now that I have a kindle, I see all of those photos and think about what a waste of paper that is.