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.
I have been reading books a lot longer than I have been having sex! and books still offer me surprises Ouch!! ....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!!!"
My meagre offering is one small bookcase with nothing really specialised just a mish mash of military related books..
Top shelf: Dunkirk related Middle shelf: ATB and a few Forgotten Voices. Bottom shelf: Citation books and Royal Signals books 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 Thought I'd bump this up as there must be so new collections to view
seeing all these books in shelving is making me veeerrryyyy envious, almost all of my books are still in boxes,lol.
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.............
Okay, you asked for it... Centre Shelf - Large Case Office | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Large Case Office | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Large Case Den | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Small Case Den | Flickr - Photo Sharing! About 10-12 books on the top shelf in the first photo mention my Dad. Marc
A lethal cocktail of Vodka, boredom, a new-found fascination with Image-stitching and a camera to hand leads me to participate again.
Nice photo stitching Adam. I don't know what's most worrying - the books, the redundant cabling or the flea spray!
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.
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 Andy
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... 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...
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.
Some splendid bookcases gents and being as Paul, keeps buying two of the same book he might as well give them to me