Share your interesting bookshelf designs

[evil^milk]

Yes, hl2.net; I have indeed asked this question. You see, I'm in the process of Seeing how to design a bookshelf for myself when I decide to make the time to undertake such a task. In the mean time I decided some of you fine chaps might have a better vision or are better educated in all things shelvy. Do share your interesting bookshelf designs!

Edit: To elaborate a bit on the topic, what I mean by an interesting design for a bookshelf is this:

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or this:

Inevitably you will ask why I ask such a question and why anyone would ever want to take the time to design or even purchase one of these creations. The reason is simple: I think there is no other thing that is more stimulating to the mind than to see a well-assembled bookshelf. Not because the design is what attracts, but rather what embellishes a person's taste for books, etc.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I use a regular bookshelf

googling bookshelf shows some interesting results http://www.google.com/images?q=book...&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1680&bih=858

 

[Krynn72]

Heres my currently-in-use bookshelf. My not-currently-in-use bookshelf is cardboard boxes in my closet.

 

[Stylo]

A bookshelf made of books. Someone should get right on that. Crazy.

 

[sixteenth]

A bookshelf made of books. Someone should get right on that. Crazy.

How 'bout a coffee table made out of a coffee table book?

I just stack my books on my sub-woofer. It's really inconvenient.

 

[VirusType2]

I have a simple, tall, black-stained bookshelf I got from Ikea when I was only a teenager. In recent years, I've placed it in a dark corner of my room and made it difficult to navigate nearby, thereby excusing me from reading anything on it. I have loaded it with beautifully bound classics such as Pascal, Freud, Newton, Marx and Darwin, printed some 60 years ago. They smell a bit, but it sure is a nice looking book collection. One day, I may open them to discover the wonders within, and not toxic mold spores.

 

[evil^milk]

Heres my currently-in-use bookshelf. My not-currently-in-use bookshelf is cardboard boxes in my closet.

Winner right here, man. Total class.

I have a simple, tall, black-stained bookshelf I got from Ikea when I was only a teenager. In recent years, I've placed it in a dark corner of my room and made it difficult to navigate nearby, thereby excusing me from reading anything on it. I have loaded it with beautifully bound classics such as Pascal, Freud, Newton, Marx and Darwin, printed some 60 years ago. They smell a bit, but it sure is a nice looking book collection. One day, I may open them to discover the wonders within, and not toxic mold spores.

60 years? Damn. If you're bored some time, send yourself to your bookshelf, and you would do good in sending me as well, because it's really cool to have a collection which shows ideas that have survived those 60 years. It's part of the charm. My parents have tons of books that I endlessly and tirelessly find admiration in, precisely (though partly) because of their age, and the commentary in their respective prefaces. I think it wouldn't be an unhealthy conclusion to say that I would have sex on a pile of old books.

 

[No Limit]

People still read books?

 

[Dead Phil]

Get a kindle..it is totaly worth youre money

 

[VirusType2]

People still read books?

Not so much in the classic sense of the word "book": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...1&q=borders+bankruptcy&aq=f&aqi=g-z2&aql=&oq=

More and more, people are getting their books digitally.

 

[Sheepo]

I'm very good at making stacks of books (the books being vertical), and making rows of them on top of each other. I have a little bookshelf which I mostly use for books featuring pictures, or comics, as I like to call them. I also have a kindle.

I like books.

 

[Acepilotf14]

People still read books?

Yes they do. Digital print doesn't have the same feeling for me as good ol' printed word.

 

[Krynn72]

No Limit was making a joke you idiots.

I too like printed books over digital, but its really becoming more and more impractical. Well, not impractical, but less practical than digital. I'm planning on buying an e-reader once one comes out that is better than a Kindle. I imagine I'll end up buying the print versions of any books I really like, if only for the novelty and the cover art. Same as with Vinyl records, which I'd also buy if I had a record player.

 

[Bad^Hat]

I also store my books on a broken, hotlinked image.

 

[YROC]

and behind the door

 

[Bad^Hat]

That's uh. That's pretty awesome. :O

 

[Minister]

Not a fan of the door, surely the books will all fall off when you slam it? However those stairs are so cool. Wish I was rich so I could have my own library.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah what's up with that. I always like a good door-slamming after I read some books. ****ing letters think they're better than me.

 

[Minister]

The stairway of books seems like some sort of hide-away, man gets annoyed (any reason), goes to his hide-away, slams door behind him. Et voila! You got books all over the place.

 

[VirusType2]

No Limit was making a joke you idiots.

haha, I don't think anybody was fooled, we just like to argue. Feed the trolls, else everyone here will starve.

 

[Danimal]

That's uh. That's pretty awesome. :O

Holy **** dude no ****ing shit I would kill for something like that.

Though I don't have enough books for it.

 

[Dead Phil]

Make the bookshelf hang from the celing or the bookcase is invisisble so it looks like the books are floating, though I know that can't happen