Comments on: At home on the shelves http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Bill Peschel http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17841 Sun, 16 May 2010 23:03:42 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17841 Here's my library, which was featured this year at the Robot 6 comic book website. Critic Heidi MacDonald linked to the post and said that they inspired "envy and despair", which has become a catchphrase around the house.

]]> By: Lynn http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17838 Sat, 15 May 2010 16:41:43 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17838 Aww!! I should have taken a wide view of my library before we dismantled it! No, we didn't have rolling ladders that I, like everyone else here, dream of having, but I did have my stepping stool placed discreetly behind a door in case I needed to get something from the top two shelves.

I can show you a photo of the 36 medium size boxes filled with books that we plan on shipping with other stuff in a container back to France if you like! I had shipped a third of my books from France to our "private beach" and now we're shipping much more back to Paris.

The only photo that I can send gives somewhat of an idea as to how it looked, it's just one portion, however, but I guess it's better than nothing.

]]> By: Mary Witzl http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17836 Sat, 15 May 2010 05:37:12 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17836 We've got plenty of bookshelves in our flat back in the U.K., but where we're living, we've got only teetering piles stacked up on shelves. I'll send a photo, though. Maybe that will shame my family into tidiness.

]]> By: Tricia http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17835 Sat, 15 May 2010 01:24:54 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17835 I so want rolling ladders. Right now we've turned a spare bedroom into a library. Any shelf with paperbacks is shelved two deep and two high. The other three bedrooms have bookcases, as does my office, and the family room, the front room, the dining room. The only rooms in our house that don't have bookcases are the bathrooms and the laundry room. Hmmm.

]]> By: kanishk http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17832 Fri, 14 May 2010 21:55:21 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17832 I too dream of rolling ladders.
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]]> By: Kathryn Packer Roberts http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17831 Fri, 14 May 2010 20:42:41 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17831 I'll have to wait until I publish that 'world's greatest' book that will sell hundreds upon hundreds of copies before I can buy the house that will hold all the books I plan to some day buy. Right now…we have moved SOOO many times that many of my books (sadly enough) remain in boxes, until I can't stand it any longer and rush to get my dear sweet beloved books to read and cherrish all over again.

Of course I don't have a picture…yet =), but I just saw today a blogger who had a terrific storage plan for her books (http://acjblogger.blogspot.com/…hopefully she doesn't mind me using her blog on here, but I thought it was really cute!) She uses paper boxes or something to store them in at the moment. Amanda J. is her name and her blog is called 'Ramblings of a Drifting Mind'.

]]> By: Don http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17830 Fri, 14 May 2010 20:04:13 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17830 I have a bit over 120' of books in shelves (not counting my wife's books which add a comparatively paltry 20' to the total). There's not much room for growth and my wife has been after me to prune my library (if it were up to me, I'd just buy more shelves). I remember in a previous apartment (before I was married), standing on the back porch and looking through the window into my bedroom (not realizing I was seeing my own apartment) and thinking how cozy the room looked with the stack of books on the nightstand and the bookcases on the wall behind the bed.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17829 Fri, 14 May 2010 20:00:31 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17829 I used to have this exact dream. I wanted high ceilings and books EVERYWHERE, in every room.

Now? I want every book on an e-reader. I'd be happy if I could reduce my book ownership to 100% digital — with a safe backup somewhere — so I could scale down the clutter and make it easier to move, travel, and find what I need.

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17828 Fri, 14 May 2010 20:00:25 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17828 Ooh, jealous! I loved BSC back in the day! My sis-in-law sent me a news story last month about the books being re-released…prequel, updated hair-styles, etc, etc. I guess kids nowadays just can't appreciate big bangs and pegged jeans…oh well…link to Washington Post story below with the full scoop:

http://tinyurl.com/y9mzbqw

]]> By: Tania http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/comment-page-1/#comment-17827 Fri, 14 May 2010 19:52:54 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/05/at-home-on-the-shelves/#comment-17827 We have dubbed our formal living room "The Reading Room". The room features the comfiest seating in the house and about five or six hundred of our favorite books. They're all haphazardly stacked and stuffed into three large, library-style bookcases. But no "official" library, though.

One of these days….

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