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Aug 24, 2015 08:06PM
Tomrrow, I start construction of the 3ed shelf...tonight I have to solve the problem of my 2ed shelf not being level...it leans out a bit according to the level I put to it...not much, you can't see it by eyeball, bugs me tho...likely the way I have books stacked on it...should have made is 6 shelves instead of 7...after things are all together, I'll borrow a dig-a-cam and let you all see it :D
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I bought all my bookshelves at garage sales. I'm feeling a little unmanly in your wake, Spooky.
LOL Bobby...trust me, I ain't he-man, these are easy to build, and I had help with the power tools (saw and drill...6 cuts, 48 holes drilled)...we drilled the holes this afternoon, now I get down to the real work...hope the garbage man comes tomorrow, the dumpster is full and I'll have scrap wood to go out later....it's the home stretch folks
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:D
well, the horse broke his leg in the home stretch...don't worry, they ain't going to shoot me...I went over to the lumber yard to get some wood to finish the last shelf, and somehow managed to mess up my lower back...should sue the snot out of them, then I'd have the cash for oak shelves built by someone who knows what they are doing, but ain't my style...my own fault anyway...back's healing nicely, just taking advil, should be ready after this weekend to take another crack at it
Take care, back trouble can last. You probably know, lift with bent knees and straight back. And avoid stooping a lot.
I work in a job where bad backs are an occupational hazard so I'll second Clare's advice. Hope you're feeling better soon. Just don't overdue it and don't lift anything until your back is healed. You'll just make it worse.
Not really a dedicated "library space" and excuse the mess, I'm in the process of putting together a desk for the printer/router in the office.
Then I just got these to house the overflow:
Looks good to me! You've got room for a few more...
Yes! And, there is a bit of space for a few on the shelves (not much). But, I buy most on the Nook these days...in the interest of space. :) Since I'm not the only one who lives here, I have to keep it reasonable. *snorts*
What this family considers a reasonable collection of books would not be viewed that way in every home, so I'm on your side.
WOOT! WOOT! finaly got off my duff and picked up the wood for the last book shelf...put it together this weekend, I'll post pics as soon as i figure out how....
:D
:D
I've got a set if bookshelves in my spare room / library / home office and I'm about to add another section of shelves to the existing ones. After that I may get a nice, furniture quality bookshelf for my bedroom, to use for my "special" books (leather-bound books I inherited from my father, special editions, or books that are otherwise special to me).
EPIC FAIL!!!!
my new book shelf is complete....I now have like 120 feet of shelf, more or less....AND I'M ALREADY OUT OF SHELF SPACE!!!! WITH BOOKS STILL TO BE SHELVED!!!!
Other than that, it worked out fine...nice little man-cave...I have a couple more cosmetic things to do, put up that Wonder Woman poster, put up a couple of metal signs, and place the statues and my Darth Vader head, and I'm mostly done....2ed and Charles has some book-covers (library-quality) I need to put on my hard-backs, stuff like that...my brother is visting this month, I'll get him to take pics so I can post them :-D
my new book shelf is complete....I now have like 120 feet of shelf, more or less....AND I'M ALREADY OUT OF SHELF SPACE!!!! WITH BOOKS STILL TO BE SHELVED!!!!
Other than that, it worked out fine...nice little man-cave...I have a couple more cosmetic things to do, put up that Wonder Woman poster, put up a couple of metal signs, and place the statues and my Darth Vader head, and I'm mostly done....2ed and Charles has some book-covers (library-quality) I need to put on my hard-backs, stuff like that...my brother is visting this month, I'll get him to take pics so I can post them :-D
forgot to add...2ed and Charles has a COOL Wonder Woman statue, if it's still there tomorrow it goes up too
*pats Spooky*
It's okay, remember, before you got that shelf done; they were ALL in a box! Now, look how many more books are happy and looking at you?
It's okay, remember, before you got that shelf done; they were ALL in a box! Now, look how many more books are happy and looking at you?
You could build yourself one of these to give you some more wiggle room:
You could also get some really inexpensive floating shelves to go around the top of the wall above the one's you built. You could circle the whole room:
Ikea would have 'em...
Ikea would have 'em...
Or, you could create ceiling shelving:
please send me the link to that chair!!!!
Here's a version of it with instructions on how to build it:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Books...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Books...
Wow, looks like that one I posted a picture of retails for almost $3000!!! Crikey!
If you build one you HAVE to post pics!
If you build one you HAVE to post pics!
Spooky, well done, not your fault you have so many books and items that they can't all fit. You have built shelves and some more books have a home. Great work!
I like the chair but it looks to me as though the sides are fake. No other way to explain the clash of spines, and the sides seem flatter. So you're not storing as many books as you'd hope.
Clare wrote: "I like the chair but it looks to me as though the sides are fake. No other way to explain the clash of spines,"
Perhaps it uses Tardis™ Technology so the shelves are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside?
Perhaps it uses Tardis™ Technology so the shelves are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside?
OK, I'm ticked...I've picked up the last of the nick-nacks for the library, except for the frame for my Wonder Woman poster...I'm ticked because I went to Wally-World to get the Darth Vader head, AND THEY ARE SOLD OUT!!! SAY WHAT??!!?? They had 3 of them the night before!! (would have got it then, but I was almost broke for the week) I mean, come on!! They sat their for a month, not a one sold, then they all sell out in less than 12 hours??? It really sucks, I had two Storm Trooper heads, I was going to put Vader with a Storm Trooper on either side, would have been SO COOL!!!! Oh well, can't have everything...
Anyway, I'm busy making sure the books are properly arranged on the shelves, trying to make sure there's room for the nessary expantion (for missing books in a series, ect.) and trying to figure out how many bookends are needed (bookends are EXPENSIVE!!! $10 for a pair!!
Anyway, I'm busy making sure the books are properly arranged on the shelves, trying to make sure there's room for the nessary expantion (for missing books in a series, ect.) and trying to figure out how many bookends are needed (bookends are EXPENSIVE!!! $10 for a pair!!
SCORE!!!!!!!!!
I FOUND A DARTH VADER HEAD!!!!!
dum dum de dum dum....
I FOUND A DARTH VADER HEAD!!!!!
dum dum de dum dum....
my brother makes it here Saturday, hope to have photos soon
can't figure out how to post the photos, so I just did a link
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Obviously don't type "enterlinkforphotohere", paste the link between the quotes. The rest type exactly as you see it. Then, the photo will show up. :)
P.S. Cool library, my friend! Well done you!!
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Obviously don't type "enterlinkforphotohere", paste the link between the quotes. The rest type exactly as you see it. Then, the photo will show up. :)
P.S. Cool library, my friend! Well done you!!
Crap, I think it thought I was posting a photo & didn't show the text.
Try again.
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Try again.
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Dang!
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Wow, Spooky, I am seriously impressed! Great display of bookshelves and books!Worth the effort yes?
Really nice set of showing, Spooky. Great job on the construction, and great collection of SF bric-a-brac to go with it. (Also, impressive collection of books.)
(And since you had a whole album of photos, not just one, probably best you just included all link to the Google photo album rather than trying to repost all the pictures.)
(And since you had a whole album of photos, not just one, probably best you just included all link to the Google photo album rather than trying to repost all the pictures.)
Roger wrote: "I hope you never have to move.... ..."
I had a company-paid pack&move back when I was still in my 20s, and one of the movers remarked, "you read way too much." But since the Company was paying the whole bill, it all went. :) Later moves were somewhat less complete.
Bill wrote: "Obsessive compulsive here. I still have every paperback science fiction/fantasy title I have ever owned..."
Once upon a time I would sometimes upgrade a rudely-used paperback to a hardcover; thus Lord of the Rings, Earthsea, Dune, WoT etc paperbacks were discarded in favor of more durable forms. These days, changing a paperback to an ebook means the paperback is falling apart and I think I'm going to read it again. 50+ year old paperbacks tend to degenerate, and I've never been really gentle with them.
My current policy is that my SF/F shelves are full; any new physical book purchase must be offset by an equal & opposite physical book removal. Newton's 3rd Law of Shelving.
I now greatly prefer ebooks, with two exceptions:
- there is no ebook of an older title, or
- the publisher has set the price of the ebook significantly higher than the dead-tree edition, in which case just out of pure spite I get a used copy of the book and deny the publisher any money whatsoever. Because I am that petty.
I had a company-paid pack&move back when I was still in my 20s, and one of the movers remarked, "you read way too much." But since the Company was paying the whole bill, it all went. :) Later moves were somewhat less complete.
Bill wrote: "Obsessive compulsive here. I still have every paperback science fiction/fantasy title I have ever owned..."
Once upon a time I would sometimes upgrade a rudely-used paperback to a hardcover; thus Lord of the Rings, Earthsea, Dune, WoT etc paperbacks were discarded in favor of more durable forms. These days, changing a paperback to an ebook means the paperback is falling apart and I think I'm going to read it again. 50+ year old paperbacks tend to degenerate, and I've never been really gentle with them.
My current policy is that my SF/F shelves are full; any new physical book purchase must be offset by an equal & opposite physical book removal. Newton's 3rd Law of Shelving.
I now greatly prefer ebooks, with two exceptions:
- there is no ebook of an older title, or
- the publisher has set the price of the ebook significantly higher than the dead-tree edition, in which case just out of pure spite I get a used copy of the book and deny the publisher any money whatsoever. Because I am that petty.
G33z3r wrote: "My current policy is that my SF/F shelves are full; any new physical book purchase must be offset by an equal & opposite physical book removal. Newton's 3rd Law of Shelving.."That's pretty much the state I'm in, I no longer have room for new books, in fact I've run out of shelving a while ago and I have piles of books on my floor. However I still have a paranoia of losing all my ebooks due to a computer crash, or the supplier going out of business, or having to do what we now do with movies now - having to rebuy it again when a new media comes out (what if epub disappears?). At least I won't lose my dead-tree books unless my house burns down, which happens significantly less often than any of the other scenarios listed above. Maybe my thoughts on this will change in the future, but for now the vast majority of my ebooks I acquired for free with the rare paid one that only came in ebook form.
But lack of space does mean I have to start giving up some books so I really have to look at it and say, "Will I really read this again one day"? What with so many books around now, and all the new ones coming out there's a point where even keeping an ebook backup doesn't make sense since I realistically won't have time to read it again anyway. In fact I probably own enough unread books to keep me busy for most of the rest of my life already (though that hardly stops me from acquiring more).
So hard to do...I'm a book hoarder, no doubt about that! Plus I love the look of rooms whose walls are filled with bookshelves.
Just started scrolling through the pictures in this thread...maybe I'm wrong about using up all my shelf space, I'm just not creative enough apparently. Book chairs! Ceiling shelves! Oh my!
IMO, ebooks should be forever. I always store them in several formats without any DRM & back them up on 2 drives. USB drives are cheap, so is good backup software. I was an early adopter of computer software in general & have just seen too many proprietary formats go the way of the dodo. At least Calibre still reads .lit books & converts them to .epub, .mobi, & .pdf just fine.As for physical space, we're always hitting our limit. I've built as many bookshelves into the house as I can, but we have limited space. I can't pack any more books under the bed in boxes, so I'm pretty much at the same stage of buy some, get rid of some. Yes, in that order & only when the stacks start becoming a nuisance.
I've found the kids are a good place to get rid of old ones that I'm fond of, but they're starting to complain about space, too. Well, the grandmonsters are coming along...
;-)
Andrea wrote: "However I still have a paranoia of losing all my ebooks due to a computer crash, or the supplier going out of business, or having to do what we now do with movies now - having to rebuy it again when a new media comes out (what if epub disappears?)..."
Like Jim, I back up my ebooks, audiobooks, and music files regularly, including a monthly offsite (it's not Iron Mountain, but it'll do. :) I remove the DRM from all those as quickly as I buy them, so if Amazon or Audible or Apple disappear, it'll hurt my stock portfolio far more than my book collection.
I'm far less worried about ebook formats than movie formats. eBooks are words. They can't make it higher resolution, they can't make it 3D, they can't add surround sound or increase the dynamic range. While you can't convert a VHS tape to a 4K Blu-Ray, you can change an epub to a mobi, or vv, or to whatever you like. Words is words. (You do have to keep upgrading the physical media used for storage. Those old floppy discs are hard to read these days.)
Like Jim, I back up my ebooks, audiobooks, and music files regularly, including a monthly offsite (it's not Iron Mountain, but it'll do. :) I remove the DRM from all those as quickly as I buy them, so if Amazon or Audible or Apple disappear, it'll hurt my stock portfolio far more than my book collection.
I'm far less worried about ebook formats than movie formats. eBooks are words. They can't make it higher resolution, they can't make it 3D, they can't add surround sound or increase the dynamic range. While you can't convert a VHS tape to a 4K Blu-Ray, you can change an epub to a mobi, or vv, or to whatever you like. Words is words. (You do have to keep upgrading the physical media used for storage. Those old floppy discs are hard to read these days.)
Time for an update..ive moved the library to the master bedroom, now insted of 3 bookcases i have 5, one of those being double-sided, so you could say 6 bookcases. Putting up Wonder Woman curtians and a new set of metal signs (the old ones are still on the wall in the old library). Big mess to clean up and books to shelve and and and...
Soon as its done ill post new pics!!!
Soon as its done ill post new pics!!!
Nothing like a real library. That was the best part of moving into my own place. Digital is for backup only. Reading off a screen is the worst.
Spooky1947 wrote: "I have my stuff in catagories:"My categories are:
SF(Star Trek)
SF(Star Wars)
SF(Warhammer 40000 and various other franchises)
SF(Authors with multiple books)
SF the rest
Fantasy
Horror
Horror(Stephen King)
Classics
Classics(Asian)
Mysteries and various other stuff without a genre
Nonfiction Science
Nonfiction Paranornal etc (I used to love crap like that)
Nonfiction the rest
G33z3r wrote:My current policy is that my SF/F shelves are full; any new physical book purchase must be offset by an equal & opposite physical book removal. Newton's 3rd Law of Shelving. "
The FIRST law of shelving is "Put up more damn shelves!! Find a way. If necessary remove such luxuries as tables and beds."
