Bookshelf thread

>>8898791
I seriously hope this picture is bait

feels like 12 years old

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Most of my books are in the guest room bookshelf at my parent's house but this is what I managed to take with me when I moved. More of my art books, edgy political books, WWII books and all my comics are back home.

>>8898791
For once I'd love it if someone would grow a pair and create a Best Of for JUST Science Fiction. It's its own genre and should not be combined with fantasy.

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Reposting from last thread since no one commented and i need the validation.

>>8899138
You have pretty epic taste, my good sir.

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Not all books, several- including Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar, Dune, Nausicaä, Catullus, Nietzsche and Stirner- are at college.

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>>8899205

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>>8899205
How are these ordered?

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>>8899209

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>>8899214

>>8899210
Loosely; by theme/provenance/genre.

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>>8899222
(the unmarked book in there is an Italian grammar from my grandfather's college days)

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>>8899227

>>8899210
>>8899222
Philosophy books by rough chronology, European novels by a mix of alphabetic and east-west, everything else by chronology, alphabet, and/or size.

>>8899222
Ok. I was just wondering because I am used to sorting by alphabetical order of authors. Really cool taste by the way.

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>>8899241
Thanks. I know where everything is so I can prioritize æsthetics (as much as one can with a bunch of oddly-sized, weirdly colored paperbacks)

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>>8899248
(using the histories for a term paper I should have started)

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>>8899227
Publication page of the Æschylus.

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>>8899261
No, that was the interior. This is the publication.
Finivi.

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>>8899265
At this point I need to stop buying books and instead read them.

>>8899146
Thank you my friend.

embarassed to post mine because its full of CRAP

>>8899595
Then remove it from the shelf.

>>8899595
Just post it you pussy. It's anonymous.

>>8898936
Have you read anatomy of melancholy? If so what can you tell us about it? Did you like it? Would you recommend it?

>>8899795
That just makes the comments all the more biting because you guys don't get any points for insulting me, you're doing it just because you know how terrible I am.

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>>8899227
Fuck, that's cool.

>>8899214
Cool

>>8899595
Don't be afraid, anon.

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>Snowy and cold day
>Hear footsteps outside
>Hear the rumbling of the mailbox
>Go outside in the snow in my pyjamas
>It's my copy of Meditations On The Peaks
>Stand there for a few sec

Is there a better feel than picking up new books from your mailbox?

>>8899261
>Xerxes: Heu, heu, heu

>>8898791
noice tolkien and pkd m8

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This is my shelf at school right now, not pictured are Vertigo and Rings of Saturn by Sebald, Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Satantango by Krasznahorkai, and Augustus and Butchers Crossing by Williams

>>8900584
A nice mix you've got there.

>>8900584
forgot to mention, the shelf is alphatized, and everything from Conrad on I've read already

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It has been a while, friends.

This picture was taken exactly one year ago. Obviously, there've been changes but I'm in the process of moving so wanted to send this as what may be a last hurrah for the old bookshelf.

1/2

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>>8901417
2/2

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>tfw promised myself not to buy any more books until after I move
>new books come out next week that I really want
I HATE NOT HAVING A BOOKSHELF!

>>8901417
That's a damn nice collection there friend

>>8900462
Comfy as fuck

>>8900532
kek

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question for stemlords and logisticians:

can you fit more books on a bookshelf vertically or stacked horizontally or is it the same amount of space taken up regardless

>>8899189
That new Storm of Steel cover looks so gay

>>8901859
Depends on the proportions of the books and how high your stacks are (and so how high your actual shelves are).

For example, have you seen or held a Loeb book? I have enough of them that I try to economize shelf usage. Their height/width are uniform, and their thickness is usually very similar between volumes, so I know that usually a vertical stack of 7+ volumes uses less shelf space than if they were ordered horizontally. Books that are taller will obviously use more shelf space when placed on their sides.

Also vertical stacks are annoying to retrieve books from. I only vertically stack multi-volume sets.

>>8899138
Please rearrange by heigth and repost friendo.

>>8902661
No thank you. I will stick to alpha once i get a new shelf.

>>8901224
Are you going to organize the same way when you're done moving?

>>8900584
Have you cracked that David Crystal book? I really enjoy his approachable English language history dissemination and I've been looking to get into some of his other work.

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It's the same old question: why do people here feel like they have to show off their collections, if they hardly have any books at home? Makes you look like fools and you don't even realize.

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dumping

>>8905146
Do you have autism? People don't always keep all the books they've read. I know that unless I really enjoyed a book and see myself rereading/referencing it later on, I will donate it to a used bookstore.

People just want to show off their interests and perhaps their reading tastes.

>>8899274

SKU is awesome

>>8905146
I think I can tell a lot about somebody by the books they own. That's why I enjoy these threads.

>>8905045
I bought it 2 years ago for $3 in the bookstore near my house because it looked really cool, but I've been too busy reading fiction to crack it so far. I'm probably gonna start it next month when I get back to school