moodyblue
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Jun 26, 2014 21:07:23 GMT
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Post by moodyblue on Oct 1, 2023 2:46:09 GMT
I have hundreds of books. There are four bookcases in the master bedroom, three on the loft, an open shelf etagere in my computer room, a bookcase and other shelves in the family room, two open bookcases in the dinette area. There are books in other spaces - on either side of the bed, in the bottom of a plant stand.
I also have boxes of hardcover children’s books in the basement that I brought home from my classroom when I retired, many of them autographed. I haven’t decided what I’m doing with those.
My books that are in bookcases and on shelves are not arranged in any special way. They are put where they fit. I did get rid of enough paperbacks so that I could get the stacks that used to sit on the floor into the bookcases.
I can’t imagine a home of mine without physical books. I love the colors and the variety. I don’t buy many any more, but I could never get rid of all of the books I have. I may downsize more, and I no longer have books from college, for example, but I think books warm up a house and tell a lot about who lives there.
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Post by melanell on Oct 1, 2023 2:55:15 GMT
I honestly do not own that many books. And I am a big, big reader. But I've just never, ever had space to store the number of books I read. Not as a child, teen, or as an adult no matter where I've lived. So, I borrow books or I buy them second hand & then donate them/give them away after I read them. I did try very hard to let my kids have adequate space for books when they were kids, but even then we had a time when we struggled to store all of their books, too. So, I do have a small selection of books, and I have 1 small free-standing bookcase that houses some. And any I am currently reading, and will later give away are stacked either on "my" end table in the living room, or on my bedside table. And I have one Rubbermaid bin in the attic with some. And that's about it. (My kids still keep their own books in their rooms, and they hold on to far, far fewer books at a time now that they are old than they did when they were little.) Both my basement & garage are prone to dampness, so neither are places for books. But even without that issue, I live in a humid area, and books stored in those places often wind up in rough shape due to the humidity---I come across it all of the time when buying used books---or trying to buy them. While I love the smell of old books---the scent of old paper, fabric, glue, etc., I hate when books smell even the tiniest bit musty. So I can't even consider keeping boxes even high up in the basement or garage for fear mine might wind up smelling like that.
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Post by quinlove on Oct 1, 2023 5:24:15 GMT
I generally give my read books away. I do have a few small stacks that are on trays, waiting tbr.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Location: The UK's beautiful West Country
Aug 2, 2014 13:03:45 GMT
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Oct 1, 2023 7:30:48 GMT
Genre. Fiction is sorted alphabetically by author, then either by title, or the order of the books in the series. Non-fiction is sorted by subject. The language and dictionary section looks a complete mess, because the smallest book is 2" tall and the largest is our enormous Oxford English dictionary. And yes, we use them.
The fiction section is at capacity and we're trialling a one-in, one-out rule. That isn't working very well though, because it's so difficult to get rid of loved books, and we don't get as much time to read these days as we used to. The books get shared around the whole family.
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Post by pjaye on Oct 1, 2023 7:42:33 GMT
but I think books warm up a house and tell a lot about who lives there. That's not true, apart from telling you that the person has old fashioned ideas about books and reading, and probably has a dusty house. A person can have multiple shelves full of books and never read them, or have no books in their house and be a prolific reader. The presence of physical books in a house means very little. I have one shelf of fiction books...around 20 in total, and any assumptions anyone makes about my reading based on that are unlikely to be true. I read 100-120 books a year and I have 140 books on my phone right now and almost 800 om my hard drive. My books are organized alphabetically by title.
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Post by h2ohdog on Oct 1, 2023 7:56:57 GMT
I got rid of most of my books last year— I used to have a room with two walls of six-foot bookshelves. Now I only one bookcase for my non-fiction books, arranged by subject, a couple of shelves on a corner stand of shelves for the oversized NF, and the top of my mom’s 100+ year old secretary for the foreign language books I can’t seem to let go.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Oct 1, 2023 10:21:38 GMT
My kids each have a 3 foot, 3 shelf bookcase. As far as I know, they just have their books on them in no particular order.
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Post by peasapie on Oct 1, 2023 13:02:57 GMT
Most of my books are now digital, but my husband’s books are on random shelves in size order.
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Post by atomicdog on Oct 1, 2023 14:29:18 GMT
They're basically not. I have then in a small bookcase and in a pile in front of it. I've given away most, keeping those not read, or that I want to read again. I'e tried to get rid of a bunch, but they're like treasures, and I end up keeping them1
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seaexplore
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Post by seaexplore on Oct 1, 2023 22:44:30 GMT
By author (king, Koontz, Saul, etc) and then by publication date.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Oct 2, 2023 0:28:44 GMT
I used to have many bookcases and stacks of books everywhere. But over time it just began to feel like more clutter to me.
Now I have two narrow bookshelves in our family room flanking the wall-mounted TV. They hold as many treasures from travels as they do books. And the few books that *are* there are the true treasures for my husband and I. The table beside my chair in the family room holds the books currently waiting for me to read them on its bottom shelf.
I do keep my chosen cookbooks on a dry sink in my breakfast room adjacent to the kitchen. The 22 y/o who still lives at home has books in his room on one bookcase. And I keep a shelf of children's books in a guest room for the grandchildren when they visit.
I no longer keep books just to have them. I am really committed to corralling clutter in our home and books have fallen prey to that.
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aarickasmom
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Mar 11, 2023 7:36:07 GMT
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Post by aarickasmom on Oct 2, 2023 0:39:32 GMT
I prefer books on Kindle. But I used to store my books in ABC order.
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Post by angel97701 on Oct 2, 2023 1:37:22 GMT
Family books, 40 or so boxes, packed as to how they would fit in the box! When the floating bookshelves are installed in the living room they will be arranged by genre. DH has his own collection about airplanes and specialty cars. Those will go in his eventual office, also not built yet.
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Post by SnoopyFan on Oct 2, 2023 2:36:06 GMT
I have hundreds of physical books, plus a Kindle and a Nook. I rarely re-read a book, so once I read it I give it away, either to a friend or to the Little Free Library near my apartment.
Almost all of the books in my apartment are arranged by color. I love the way it looks!
The books that I keep at my boyfriend's house are just put on the shelf however. They are behind closed doors, so it doesn't matter.
I moved about a year ago from a second floor apartment in one complex to a third floor apartment in a different complex. No elevators. My boyfriend has informed me that I am not allowed to move again until I read all my books. Carrying all the boxes of books up and down stairs nearly killed him.
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