It's that time again! - Post Your Bookcase!

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Ingram

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It's time to pull out your digital camera and take a nice high resolution shot of your bookcase/s and post them there here for everyone to have a look-see.

I'd do it myself, only I don't have a digital camera :P
 
Is there another way to see it? The link brought up a MSN registration page, and I have an MSN phobia. :)
 
I get an error message when I try to view it.


I'd post mine, but I'm not living at home right now (where most of my books are, of course), I don't have a camera, and even if it weren't for those things a large portion of my books are being stored under-bed pending new shelf-space.
 
Woo-hoo! Threads like this are so much fun for Book Nerds like me...

Auntie Pam your bookcase isn't "pitiful," but I know you read a lot of books so you must get most of them from the public library, yes?

Here's my first bookcase, the one in my computer room that's mostly reference: (And if you look at it you have to promise not to see the clutter)
Reference Shelf
Also you'll have to excuse my photography "skills." lol.

Here's my second shelf, mostly magazines (mountain biking ones) and photo albums but there are some books on there too (the black ones are Chronicles of Narnia):
Second Shelf

And lastly, my main shelf, which is pretty cluttered and unorganized, and also very unfortunately blocked by my sister's computer desk at the moment:
Main shelf, fantasy and literature

I'm always buying more books (no matter how much I can't afford them) so I'll probably have to get another shelf soon. Although god only knows where I'll put it. :)
 
Iskaral, LOVE the kung-fu hamster. Does he sing "Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting?" :D

I just tested my pics and they don't look very good, Photobucket resized them and you can't really read any of the book titles. Oh well, good enough I suppose... :rolleyes:
 
Miriamele said:
Auntie Pam your bookcase isn't "pitiful," but I know you read a lot of books so you must get most of them from the public library, yes?
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I don't use the library much. It's too hard to read on a schedule.

There's another bookcase for westerns and historicals, three for horror, a small one for SF, one for general fiction, and one where I've started putting the TBR books.

Here's the horror stuff -- most of it's pretty old, 70's and 80's.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v66/AuntiePam/?action=view&current=horror_books.jpg
 
Ah, there are the rest of them! Those are pretty shelves, and I love the padded rocking chair in front, makes me want to sit right down and read for a bit! :)

Yes, I love those LoTR editions too--cover art that Tolkien did himself (not that he was much of an artist, but it's the principle!). The set was expensive but it came in a nice slipcase and I don't regret the money at all! (How could I ever regret money spent on ANY books, actually?)
 
The rocker is the most uncomfortable chair in the house. I'm not sure what the seat is padded with -- feels like cardboard. :)

My Tolkien set is secondhand. I had to buy them one at a time, and there's no slipcase, darn it. I think I paid about $20 apiece. I like the artwork, and didn't know that Tolkien did it.

I'm new to LotR. Hadn't read the books until after I saw the first movie. Until then, I thought the ring was a good thing.
 
My book collection is mostly packed in boxes at the moment; having just moved back into my parent's house for the summer, space is a serious issue. I only have room for one bookshelf in my bedroom and this is it. Tis double packed so you only get the front rows:

Shelf One

and

Shelves Two and Three

These are mostly either old favourites or very recently-boughts and reads...everything else is consigned to cardboard-prison until October (when I'm moving into my very first non-student flat. Woo!).
 
I've read The Quincunx and Sabriel -- the other titles are familiar but unread. Nice collection!

Won't it be great, when you have room for all of them? :D
 
I love this thread. :) I've always loved looking at other people's bookshelves. I only have two shots of my books, but, here is one of em. I'll take a photo of my other cases in a day or so.. It's raining here in Calgary, I got the time. ;)

Hardcover's
 
Aha, a few more books in common -- Martin, Hobb, Simmons. I'm jealous of your hardcover Ilium.

Love the dragon. What's the green thing, 2nd shelf, on the right? Looks cute.
 
Wow Keyoke! Your hardback collection is very impressive. I'm particularly jealous of your hardback Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. :) Did you just buy these as they were released, or do collect them later?
 
Nice hc collection, Keyoke. I notice you have all three Lian Hearn books (Tales of the Otori). I have those in hc too, love them. I also noticed you have a book called Taiko. I've heard of that one--is it any good? I'm always looking for good Japanese-themed fiction...
 
Thanks all! I'm quite proud of my Hardcover collection. I have this weakness for them, but, oddly enough, I prefer to read Paperbacks, but own the HC.

Anyways, yah, I bought the HC of Memory Sorror and Thorn when they first came out. I believe it was one of the first HC series I had bought.. Love that series, one day, I plan on re-reading it, and I know I will love it even more.

As to Hearn books, I havent read them yet. Supposely they are quite good. You can see a other book on my shelf called "Taiko", it's a Japanese history book, not fantasy, also supposely very good (Expensive and THICK)
 
LOL.... I love the green bookworm thing, Keyoke.

Just want to add my appreciation on this thread too - it's like wandering into your best bookshop with all these goodies on display....
space is a serious issue.
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Yup. Remember the moral - you can never have enough books. When the house is full, move to another house!

(Guess what I'm doing!)

Here's one: click on it if you need to see bigger. Erm, most of these shelves are double stacked. (There's a nice boxed set of the Harry Potter Special Editions at the back in the top right corner, for example!) I've just realised that most of the HB's on these ones are signed, also. The book in the cardboard box (below the Holdstock's) is the big Star Wars photo book that came out a few years ago. The dust cover for the Grimwood is there without the book because I was reading it at the time the photo was taken...



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