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Swimming
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Jun 15, 2014 11:42AM
My best friend is borrowing my copy of the fault in our stars and she's being reading it for like a month and I'm really scared that it comes back crippled because my bookshelves have to look nice it's terrifying :((((((((((
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Swimming wrote: "My best friend is borrowing my copy of the fault in our stars and she's being reading it for like a month and I'm really scared that it comes back crippled because my bookshelves have to look nice..."OCD? Bending corner of the page over as book Mark. Hate it. Should go on your other thread
A custom-made bookcase in my den measures 7.5 ft. long (floor-to-ceiling) and 3.25 ft. wide. It has seven shelves; six of which are adjustable.Books are segregated. Top shelf: non-fiction; 2nd., 3rd., and 4th. shelves: fiction; 5th. shelf: audio books on compact disc or tape; 6th. and bottom shelves: Movies on DVD.
The books are placed in aplhabetical order by author and the DVD's in alphabetical order by title.
Current Inventory:
Hard Cover and Paperback Books - 32 non-fiction & 69 fiction.
Audio Books - 1 non-fiction & 8 fiction.
Movies on DVD - 102.
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Ian wrote: "As I'm moving flat soon have decided to send the majority of my remaining paperbacks and hardbacks to a charity shop today and then will be getting rid of a bookcase as I've been kindle only for a ..."Good luck with that. What other stuff are you dumping?
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Your lucky, I'm looking at selling my house and have lived here for 24 years. Did do a major clear out when my partner died but that was 11 years ago.
My four adult children own e-Book readers; what kind, I could not tell you. I do not.Although they now purchase e-Books much more often than traditional print books, my children still buy the occasional print book or, more often than not, stop by my home to peruse my personal library* and borrow a print book, audio book or movie on DVD*.
*You may refer to message 55 for a description of the bookshelves in my den and the sorting method utilized to determine the specific arrangement of the items that rest upon them.
I tend to pop mine up wherever there is space! Here's a photo. It's jam packed. https://www.facebook.com/sarasheridan...
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Sara wrote: "I tend to pop mine up wherever there is space! Here's a photo. It's jam packed. https://www.facebook.com/sarasheridan......"
OH MY that is spectacular! That's the kind of collection I dream of :)
This is why the Kindle is working so well for me, there is no physical evidence of my book-purchasing compulsion!
Sara wrote: "I tend to pop mine up wherever there is space! Here's a photo. It's jam packed. https://www.facebook.com/sarasheridan......"
Fantastic. I had lots of shelves too but last year I cut down - now I have a few shelves of hardbacks, a couple of shelves of carefully selected paperbacks and a kindle. I made the decision that most of the books I would never read again so out they went to friends, family or charities. I still have some paperbacks to read and I still have to stop myself buying new ones in book stores
Philip wrote: "Sara wrote: "I tend to pop mine up wherever there is space! Here's a photo. It's jam packed. https://www.facebook.com/sarasheridan......"
I have to admit, a lot of these belong to my husband. I did downsize my collection when I last moved house, but as you can see, it has grown again... I'm a big fan of libraries so nowadays I borrow instead of buying a lot of the time.
