Show us your Shelfies

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

For those who haven't converted to ebooks (or go for a mix) any time spent here in the group results in a massive influx of books. How do you store them , any books your particularly proud of having , and most of all post a picturef your shelves

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Our main shelves with around 500 or so books

The next set with over 150 books


And of course the mandatory hoarders corner


We've quite a few signed and ltd editions and other collectables mixed in there. A lot of signed books including Pratchett, Gaiman, Sanderson, GRRM,a few great recent ones like the Martian and Emperors Blades as signed ltd editions and a reasonable number of antiques including two Dickens first editions.

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Ok after some technical difficulties - thank you to Paul... here are my shelves!!

My Wheel of Time shelf is my favourite <3

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

That's impressive Paul!!

Now tell me how you added images in... :D

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Hi Kirsty , I posted it in our new tech support thread yesterday here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Because you have it hosted you just need to stick the web address in the code also change the barackets at the start and end to< > symbols(I Have to change them for the code to show (img src="http://www.goodreads.com/image..." width="40" height="100" alt="description")

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I love the shelves Kirsty. Those bottles with the HP books look brilliant.

[Rinn, Captain of the SSV Normandy]

So a couple of years ago I posted this on my blog. However it's a bit out of date!

Since I've moved, I've had a lot less room for my books, so most of them are still with my parents. Here's what I have with me though! One bookcase in my room, the other in the living room which I have entirely taken over, sorry housemate :P

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

That's scarily neat :-)

[Rinn, Captain of the SSV Normandy]

I am a neat freak :D

[Rinn, Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Quite jealous of all your shelves though. I want all my books here :(

[Andrew]

I only have a "hoarders corner" LOL Behind and under my couches. I used to have a shelf and way more books before I moved. It was way too expensive and annoying to bring them all. I rarely buy physical books anymore because of this. Library and e-books when possible, physical purchase when not.

Nice shelves guys :)

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

It was very funny when we moved, we had 11 boxes of books and about 5 boxes of everything else.
Are you going to move your books down at any point Rinn

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I'm looking through your shelves now going "Have it " "Want it"

[Rinn, Captain of the SSV Normandy]

I'd like to, but there's no more shelves/room for them. Although I know that I'm going to eventually just start stacking them on the floor underneath...

My parents don't mind me keeping my books at home. So they'll stay there until I have space for them all :D

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Sounds like a good plan

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

I just noticed that there is a "Continuous Delivery" book (one of my husbands techy books) sullying my Wheel of Time Shelf.... I shall be having words.
Or I'll just move it somewhere else... Ha!

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Also, I found an app the other day called Shelfie. Where you take pics of your shelves and it auto recognises the books from the spines. I think they're still getting all working and stuff, but the guys there emailed me as I added lots of shelves for feedback and listened and responded when I replied which was good. You can then connect with, share, chat etc with people who have similar books etc. Downloaded on iOS.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I posted that for Lel somewhere else the other day , as they give free and cheaper ebooks if you own them

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Ah yeah that's right! :D

[Rinn, Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Kirsty wrote: "I just noticed that there is a "Continuous Delivery" book (one of my husbands techy books) sullying my Wheel of Time Shelf.... I shall be having words.
Or I'll just move it somewhere else... Ha!"

How very DARE he!

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

The audacity!

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Cheeky sod . When I found a Jane Austen on the Scifi shelf there was big trouble.

[Kimberley]

Darn, you guys have huge collections that make mine look like so tiny! :( There's some really awesome books in there.

I only finished working on my new shelves a few days ago, the small ones on the right side of my desk. My books were at first simply stacked on my desk, and I felt they deserved a better place. I made the shelves & desk myself, something of which I'm quite proud ;P And now I'll just keep on collecting :)







These ones I proudly keep on my desk, such a hassle to get them shipped to the Netherlands.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

They look great Kimberley. Fair play making the desk and all. Love the leather bound set.

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Lovely Kimberley! Particularly pleased to see the Illiad and Odyssey leatherbound there! :D

[Rinn, Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Kimberley, have you been to Donner Boekhandel in Rotterdam? They have an amazing English language collection :o

[Kimberley]

Thank you! I'm in love with my leatherbound books aswell, the Illiad & Odyssey (aswell as Grimm's) could really not be missing; I have a big thing for mythology and fairytales ;P

And yeah, Rinn, I go there a lot! My uni is only two minutes or so away from that store, so I go there after school sometimes ;) (and then try to stop myself from buying myself broke..) So its safe to say my collection is quickly growing.. Maybe I need to start making more shelves, just in case..

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I'm a big fan of Mythology and Fairy tales as well. I did a lot of study on them for my cultural anthropology degree ( plus the other half is a Greek and Roman Teacher)
I think at this point I have four editions of Grimms but not that beautiful leather one ( I have a signed Philip Pullman version and a lovely antique one though)
Definitely get ahead of yourself on the shelving

[Kimberley]

Hah! Nice! I would probably have gone in that direction if I didn't choose Media technology, where I pretty much learn coding for websites and apps and usability. Two whole different worlds!

Post a pic of your Grimms if you can be bothered? :)

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Antique one , 1890's ish Leather edition -

and the Philip Pullman special edition -


The other two are stored somewhere but are fairly standard

[Kimberley]

Oh wow! These are amazing ;3 Love the antique one especially. Cool stuff!

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I can't even remember where I got it now to be honest.