I just thought of this right this minute, but I noticed in the latest splurge section, Lori posted a photograph of her finds, and I was thinking it might be a neat idea if members took a picture of their bookcases, just because bragging rights are fun, as is the ability to admire other members' bookcases. I would post mine right now, but I'm at work sans camera and book case pictures.

I wish I could. :( Alas no camera to do such things with. Mines a shambles though, quite embarrassing.

Oooh. I'm gonna do this when I get home. I have three though... hehe.

Cool idea. I gotta get snappin'

Not to sound stupid... But how do we do that?

Morgan wrote: "Not to sound stupid... But how do we do that?"

take a picture, then post the picture here. (there is a html code you can get right above the comment box where it says "some html is okay")

Oh. Thanks!

I should do this too. Although I'd have to remove all the accumulated junk from mine first. My bookshelves end up being a catch-all for anything that will fit... Which is really kind of ironic because I am such a fanatical book organizer, my books have to be in exactly the right place or it makes me crazy, yet I go and pile loads of crap on top of them. *shrug*

Allison wrote: "Morgan wrote: "Not to sound stupid... But how do we do that?"

take a picture, then post the picture here. (there is a html code you can get right above the comment box where it says "some html i..."

yeah but you have to upload it to photobucket or somewhere first, you can't put it direct from your computer.

yeah sorry, miss exact. ;)

Thanks!

image: <img src="" width="40" height="100" alt="description"/>

Snippy, snippy. Girls, let's play nice:)

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use this code, and put your link between the quotation marks toward the beginning.

Kandice wrote: "Snippy, snippy. Girls, let's play nice:)"

you know I was kiddin' :D I'm no cowbag!

oh Morgan...if you use a photobucket link, then you don't need the html code, it is automatically html :) sorry! its all so confusing....

This ones mine, minus all the bags of to be reads that are usually all over the place


My hubbys work case (it sits in this tiny alcove upstairs below a window, thats my giant Jade plant on top!)


This is the one for the kids upstairs in the hallway, but it also has some of our oddball books on it too


I have one more 5 shelver in the computer room, but its too blocked up for me to take a photo of it. Its 2 shelves of my Stephen King and Chick lit novels (they didnt rate for the living room!) and the other 3 are the kids books ....

Pretty bookshelves Lori. I really wanna show mine, but then you might see exactly how untidy my bedroom is, lol.

yeah Lori, pretty!

Fiona! I want to see your bookcase monster :) I'm very intrigued after hearing you talk about it.

I had to straighten up around mine and the kids upstairs.... I didnt want everyone to think I was a slob :P

I am going to get Shaun to help take pics of mine.

Oh my god, this is an awesome idea! And here I thought I was some kind of freak for liking to see pictures of people's bookshelves! God, I love you guys! :D

I will definately take some pics of my collection tonight to share!

Lori, your bookcases are beautiful! I think I have the same black 5-shelf case.

Morgan, I love those types of actual shelves! If we were allowed to nail things at my apartment, I would totally put some up.

Oooh Lori, I love your bookshelves. And the chair is soooo cool. ^_^

I'd love to post a pic. of mine but it's at home, all I have here are notebooks and college books. Oh--and my 12th grade yearbook. :/

I'll have to wait until everything is tidied up a bit. My bedroom wasn't in use this winter so it became a bed/storage room.

Thanks April and SBG, That corner of the living room is my favorite spot in the whole house. The mushroom chair is comfy, the throw pillows are cuddly (and a great book rest!) and its the neatest, most organized spot in the whole house. As you can see, I take pride in my shelves, and no one else is allowed to put their books there :)

Now my hubbys case, and the one for the kids.... those are taking quite the beating. Stuff is just chucked in there and they arent as great quality wise!

Lori wrote: "I had to straighten up around mine and the kids upstairs.... I didnt want everyone to think I was a slob :P"

No hope for me... save yourselves!! I'm a slob and proud! My husband (who is borderline Detective Monk) doesn't quite agree, but opposites attract, as they say! Working on picture now...

C'mon people.... let us see!!! Now I feel like a dork for running around snapping shots to post them.... We need more bookcases!!

I'd post mine but I can't figure out how to post it. I'm assuming you have to have the picture already somewhere on the internet, right? I'm just stupid I guess. I don't want to sign up for Photobucket just to be able to post one picture.

Dorie: http://tinypic.com/


Lori: I'm posting mine today!

Ohhh we need more pictures here!!!!
I´m at work not, but when I get home I´ll try to take some photos!

And by the way, Lori your shelves are lovely *_* Just like the way a shelf needs to be! Full of books, colorful and with books in different positions lol
Now, poor husbund, give him a decent shelf! LOL it´s almost a corner, not a bookshelf haha

Edit: ah! And I want to see your chick-lit shelf hahaha

Alright, I took pics last night, but now I have to upload them to photobucket. Gah. I forgot to email them to myself, so I'll be posting them when I get home from class tonight. Or maybe I'll stop by home in between work and class and post them and eat some dinner... hmmm. Yeah that sounds good.

Love them April! I am having fun scoping out what all you have :P lol

Allison wrote: "Love them April! I am having fun scoping out what all you have :P lol"

Two of the books, Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing aren't mine, they are my sisters. Also the second picture, the second shelf from the bottom with the books on their sides contains my boyfriend's books. But everything else is mine! :-D And the second shelf is double stacked as well.

Kristen, I can't wait til you post!!

Lol, this is like... bookshelf porn or something here. I'll have to nick my dad's cam and see if I can clean up my room a bit before embarrassing myself.

course I honed right in on HP.

is HP #3 missing?

I see poisonwood!!

Haha, I've got 4 bookshelves (half of one dedicated to library books) and one of those is my fiance's... and then on the top of my dresser are my recent purchases that I need to read... I can't wait to show you guys how crazy my books are. Although.. when we moved in, my fiance put my books up.. so they're in all sorts of crazy order.. I'm too lazy to fix them.. maybe that will be my summer project.

Allison wrote: "is HP #3 missing?"


I think it is haha


April, your shelves are amazing haha You are like a library lol I´m really jealous of your hardcover HPs! Actually, of all the hardcover books >.<

The double-parked shelf is funny, it´s sad how sometimes is necessary to double-park them lol

Yeah my sister borrowed HP #3 and I never got it back... but it's okay I'll buy a new one somewhere down the road.

April, wow... Nice big FULL bookshelves! I like to snoop too! I saw Water for Elephants in there, Midnite in the Garden... hee hee!

Thanks for posting!

yeah I saw Midnight in the Garden too...I just picked it up at Goodwill a couple weeks ago but haven't read it yet.

I used to have seven huge bookcases stuffed full of books...I am a HUGE bibliophile and former librarian....BOOKS RULE! (Well, books and Frank Zappa). I was forced by means beyond my control to box up my books, put them in the basement and get rid of my bookcases due to lack of space. We have a very small house and my husband has been remodeling in here for the past 3 YEARS now, I have MS and he is trying to ADA things around here. Right now it looks like a war zone in here. My husband does not understand my passion for books. He thinks that once you've read it, why keep it? He just doesn't get it. We almost went to divorce court over my love of books. I said "Where was I when we met? COLLEGE!!! You knew about my book passion when you married me!!"
Peace, Laura

Grr..I cannot get my pics to post! :(

Did you try using tinypic?

Thanks April! I will try uploading my pics there. So, I don't need the html code if I use the tinypic link? I'm so confused!! :P

If you upload on tinypic, there is an html code which you copy paste. That's what I did.

I'm not that technologically savvy, and I have too many bookshelves!

I think we don't have bookshelves in the bathrooms. Yet. And that's it.