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Building a Bookshelf, Digital vs Physical
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My husband is in the process of building us a bookcase that covers one wall in a basement room. It's three verticals worth of shelves, boxing in a window, specifically designed to hold paperbacks. It won't look particularly unique, but! it's definitely teaching us a lot about carpentry and potential pitfalls. Right now he's learning that sanding is a very, very long process. :D All I keep thinking is, if it takes him a year to build a bookcase, how long with the gamer table he want take and does that mean we'll never get that bedroom/library/gaming room back (because it's the designated construction space)?
Well, I have a funky bookshelf in that it's one of those shelves that hangs off the wall except mine is leaning precariously downward. It got to the point where I was afraid to put even a single other book on it for fear of it collapsing completely and crushing my TV under it. Which led to me rearranging my bookshelves just yesterday, an undertaking that took me about two hours. Now that particular shelf is stocked only with paperbacks and it's looking rather colourful, and all my hardbacks are in a different bookcase. I have two hanging shelves above my TV (the other one isn't near collapsing, though, because it only houses a few books and some figurines), three bookcases of varying heights and a mountain of books in my nightstand shelves. Current count is 101 fiction books, 7 cookbooks and 9 dictionaries of various sorts.
B'ney wrote: "The goal is to have something like this."
One of those would come in really handy at this juncture.
The funkiest thing about my bookshelf is how I managed to place double the number of items it should handle. Behind the first row of books there is another row of books (mostly books with Covers of Shame & Fanservice). But I aim on getting my hands on some old school boring dark-wooded bookshelf once I have my own place.I like digital editions. Sure, I wouldn't give up on my big and bulky A Dance With Dragons for anything but a kindle takes care of a LOT of physical space. That's always a plus to me.
Given the volume of books my husband and I have, we really couldn't go funky. Last time we moved we had over 70 boxes of books. (This is what happens when liberal arts majors marry.....) After several years of having freestanding bookcases, last year we installed a modular system that hangs from a track that's installed high on the wall. I love them. It's given a nice clean look to our 100+ feet of bookshelves. Also I can vacuum underneath them and I won't have to move my books when we replace our carpet later this year.
I have a 6ft well err 3ft now (Someone tried to move it with books loaded, as I was saying we should unloaded it..it was already packed full at 6ft and now it just looks crazy.) and a another 3ft-er, plus the tv stand, and a closet built-in that holds like 20 college texts that I kept... I live in a small studio so there isn't much space... No fancy awesome bookcase for me.I also like digital bookshelves... more so with books that I'm not sure about but want to read.. and books I can't find at my library, or if I'm tired of waiting for the ebook usually there is a long wait.
When/if I own a home I plan to have a library room. Forget a guess room, lol... Ok so maybe room enough for a roll bed or keep it an office.. but ever since I was little I've dreamed of having my own library.
I have found using media shelving for my books to be a huge space saver, plus they are modular, so they are easy to configure in any way you would like. Right now I have five that are around six feet tall (hardcovers kept to the bottom sections) and another one that's around four. They make for an easy storage without eating into the floor space too much.
Becky wrote: "Given the volume of books my husband and I have, we really couldn't go funky. Last time we moved we had over 70 boxes of books. (This is what happens when liberal arts majors marry.....) After s..."Oh my goodness! 70 boxes!!! I thought my 10 was a lot... I can see how a modular system would be beneficial, definitely.
The goal is to have something like this
Does anyone here have any funky or unique bookshelves? I'm not really sure the ratio of digital to physical book lovers... Personally I wouldn't give up my hard copies for anything!