Your Bookcase

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Gage, Feb 1, 2010.

  1. Suribachi

    Suribachi Junior Member

    A fellow member thought this would be a good idea and asked me to start things off. :) Ok H?
    Sorry the photos aren't great. Guess which books belong to the missus (she has the small section).
    This is my first bookcase out of two (second later depending if this thread survives). :mellow:

    P.S. I need a bigger house and more bookcases!

    You're obviously very proud of your collection, some good reading there.
     
  2. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    I have been reading books a lot longer than I have been having sex! and books still offer me surprises :lol:

    Ouch!!:lol:

    ....and you don't need a willing (or passive) partner in order to read a book!

    Or, as Rodney Dangerfield once said," The first time I had sex I was absolutely terrified!! Then again, I was all alone!!!":rolleyes:
     
  3. spotter

    spotter Senior Member

    My meagre offering is one small bookcase with nothing really specialised just a mish mash of military related books..
     

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  4. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Top shelf: Dunkirk related

    Middle shelf: ATB and a few Forgotten Voices.

    Bottom shelf: Citation books and Royal Signals books
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    The others are waiting for a bigger house in my ex wifes house :)

    I now have four shelves of Dunkirk related books - Not sure how that happened :lol:
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    Thought I'd bump this up as there must be so new collections to view :D
     
  5. idler

    idler GeneralList

    I think you'll get another bump when the ATB shelf gives way...
     
  6. gunbunnyB/3/75FA

    gunbunnyB/3/75FA Senior Member

    seeing all these books in shelving is making me veeerrryyyy envious, almost all of my books are still in boxes,lol.
     
  7. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    You're not fooling us, Drew, those are all the book spines only, it's all whisky bottles behind :)
     
  8. WhiskeyGolf

    WhiskeyGolf Senior Member

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  9. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    My "bookcase" is on LibrayThing.com. Username is the same.
     
  10. kingarthur

    kingarthur Well-Known Member

    The new wall,still room for a few on the bottom shelf:D
     

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  11. Paul Pariso

    Paul Pariso Very Senior Member

    Hello all,

    Well I've finally managed to bring some order to the mess that was my book collection. The spare room has at last been turned into my "Arnhem" room. No longer are the books scattered all over the house! They are now all neatly arranged on several bookcases and the smaller pamphlets etc are in a filing cabinet. I've also managed to hang several of the pictures etc on the walls! It's still a work in progress (have to convince the wife to let me put a desktop PC in there) but it's a start.

    All the best............. :)
     

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  12. Son of POW-Escaper

    Son of POW-Escaper Senior Member

  13. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    A lethal cocktail of Vodka, boredom, a new-found fascination with Image-stitching and a camera to hand leads me to participate again.

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  14. Mike L

    Mike L Very Senior Member

    Nice photo stitching Adam.
    I don't know what's most worrying - the books, the redundant cabling or the flea spray!
     
  15. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    A Vodka & Redbull just isn't right without a dash of fleaspray.
    At least I assume that's what it's for, as that stuff certainly didn't kill any fleas - that took far more investment.

    Redundant?!
    There is only one redundant cable there, and that's a serial printer adapter for a Psion organiser... but maybe one day I'll need it again...
    Roll on standardisation.
     
  16. AndyBaldEagle

    AndyBaldEagle Very Senior Member

    Hello all,

    Well I've finally managed to bring some order to the mess that was my book collection. The spare room has at last been turned into my "Arnhem" room. No longer are the books scattered all over the house! They are now all neatly arranged on several bookcases and the smaller pamphlets etc are in a filing cabinet. I've also managed to hang several of the pictures etc on the walls! It's still a work in progress (have to convince the wife to let me put a desktop PC in there) but it's a start.

    All the best............. :)

    Paul
    I hope they are they in alphabetical order?:p:p:lol:

    Andy
     
  17. Hebridean Chindit

    Hebridean Chindit Lost in review... Patron

    Thought I'd drop a first post in this one during the rather chaotic transition of my book stores... I won't post pictures at this point as they would be grounds for divorce to make them public... o_O

    The mention of Ikea and "Billy" book shelves much earlier in the thread reminded me of my own shelves, much smaller than those posted... but we have a few for display shelves, dvd's, books, etc...

    My immediate book domain sits adjacent to where I sit on the sofa normally doing my typing/scanning and has all my most recent purchases or those awaiting scanning and is a billy single width shelf cut in half and made to match the height of the adjacent window, with room for my coffee cup and the "floating" Tardis...
    Our bedroom houses another billy with the remainder of my Burma books, a shelf of Hebridean titles, one for SWMBO and another for my sci-fi titles... most of a rather significant sci-fi collection is boxed in the loft and will remain there until we move at some undetermined point in the future... a major bone of contention is the (multitude) of piles of books, dvd's, model kits, dotted around the place...
    An unhealthy collection of titles sit on this beastie I'm typing on, as well as several BUDdies (back-up-discs that have now become HDD's in their own right) lurking about... retired hard-disc-drives end up cannibalised and converted into coffee mats and wind-chimes... :D
     
  18. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Well, after months of concern over my perceived addiction for collecting books about Burma, you guys and you're photos have made me feel comfortably sane.:D
     
  19. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Idler's still winning in the 'I'm jealous' stakes for me.
    The bastard.
     
  20. wtid45

    wtid45 Very Senior Member

    Some splendid bookcases gents and being as Paul, keeps buying two of the same book he might as well give them to me:lol:
     

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