Hardcore Bookcase Porn

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The Moveable Bookcase

Love with You

Hurray for bookshelves:

Baarregaard & Briem - "Love With You" from Harald Haraldsson on Vimeo.

Shelf Conscious

The Paris Review takes a look at the history of bookshelves and what one can glean from someone by looking at their bookshelves.

From the piece...

In the Middle Ages, when monasteries were the closest equivalent to a public library, monks kept works in their carrels. To increase circulation, these works were eventually chained to inclined desks, or lecterns, thus giving ownership of a work to a particular lectern rather than a particular monk. But as collections grew, surface space diminished, and books came to be stacked on shelves above the lectern, at first one and then many. The problem, of course, was that two books chained next to each another couldn’t be comfortably studied at the same time: elbows knocked; shackles clinked and tangled.

Hence the innovation of vertical storage. One book could be removed without disturbing the rest. Yet the transition was gradual. Books in monasteries retained their chains for some time, and many leather covers, particularly in private libraries, protruded irregularly, tricked-out as they were with embossing and jewels. Those books that did stand were oriented with their spines to the back of the shelf.

Dream Homes Built for Books and the Nerds Who Love Them

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Painting an Ideal Bookshelf

Painting an Ideal Bookshelf from Jane Mount on Vimeo.

Crazy Bookcases

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11 Dreamy Bookshelves

A gallery, care of the Los Angeles Times.

9 Beautiful Bookshelves

The list, care of the Huffington Post. And, more groovy bookcases, care of Fine Books & Collections Magazine, here.

Bookcase Tetris

Rubber Bookshelves

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House of Shelves

A pretty sweet house for any bibliophile.

Totally Cool Bookcase

Care of This is Colossal.

18 Cool Bookshelves

The list, care of Neatorama.

How to Build a Bookshelf with Used Chopsticks

Caring for Books at Home

How does the owner of one of the nation's best bookstores take care of her books at home? The Wall Street Journal finds out.

The Cat-Library

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The Amazing House of Bookshelves

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What's the Next Chapter for Bookshelves?

That's the question recently posed by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

From the article...

The library/sunroom in Jim Noble's 19th-century Minneapolis house is all about the books. Leather-bound volumes, many of them antiques that have been in his family for generations, fill floor-to-ceiling shelves that line an entire wall.

"It's nice to have books around. They add so much ambience," said Noble, a principal with Noble Interior Design. "I hope we never live to see the day that books are eliminated from the home."

Michael Jones also loves books. But his loft condo in Minneapolis doesn't have space for a traditional library. He still buys books but downloads a lot of his lighter reading material on his Kindle. Recently he added a custom built-in bookshelf to his living room -- mainly to display his art collection. "I was running out of wall space," he said.

The two homes illustrate the role books have traditionally played in the American home -- and the role they may play in the future, as e-readers continue to revolutionize our relationship with the printed word.

Organizing the Bookcase