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This is what the perfect home library looks like.

>> No.14776529

>perfect
>yellow floor tile
pick one (1) and only one (1). Props on the succulents tho

>> No.14776567
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>>14776529
This could be entirely fixed by just laying down brick tiles as in pic related. There's enough light and rustic/modern elements for them to fit. Project could be done in a few hours, wouldnt even need cement or grout or whatever if done properly.

>> No.14776569

>>14776468
It would be a little more perfect if it weren’t for the distasteful metal bookshelves and the floor tiles of what looks like a former public bathroom.

>> No.14776576

>>14776468
>floor is not wood

>> No.14776577

>>14776468
What is this? An old prison kitchen? That floor looks disgusting

>> No.14776583

>>14776577
Looks like a gas chamber.

>> No.14776585

>Books in a well-lit room

It's like you want the pages to disintegrate.

>> No.14776586
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>>14776468

No this is

>> No.14776604

>>14776586
Is it truly possible to have such bad taste?

>> No.14776646

>>14776586
wtf is that porn on top next to the family portrait?

>> No.14776650

>>14776604
I tried to find something decent like Tolkien, which tends to be obligatory reading for any sort of "fantasy fan", but no.

>> No.14776655

>Ikeacore
I buy that shit cause its cheap, not because its aesthetic or ideal. Horrible taste OP.

>> No.14776670

>>14776650

I see Little Women, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, and Vanity Fair, which were definitely all bought because the owner needed a few classics to make her feel grown up.

>> No.14776680

>>14776670
>her

>> No.14776694

>>14776586
I feel genuinely bad for you

>> No.14776698

>>14776694
Its from reddit.

>> No.14776703

>>14776586
Yes, if you
1. Move the shelf to a decent room
2. Replace the shelf with a good one and
3. Throw out the books and get good ones.

>> No.14776707

>>14776586
This has to be from Reddit

>> No.14776718

>>14776468
This is about as cozy as a rectal exam.

>> No.14776728

>>14776529
>>14776569
>>14776576
>>14776577
>>14776583
>>14776585
>>14776655
>>14776718
have sex

>> No.14776738

>>14776728
based

>> No.14776745

>>14776728
On that floor?

>> No.14776754

>>14776468
This looks like too sterlie..no life or warmth.

>> No.14776765

>>14776754
have sex

>> No.14776881

>>14776728
No.

>> No.14776889

>>14776707
Correct, I reverse image searched it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bookshelf/comments/aaz0xj/time_for_a_new_bookshelf_luckily_a_red_bookshelf/

>> No.14776900

>>14776889

Every time

>> No.14777238

>>14776468
is that a prison?

>> No.14777311

Feels like I'm going to knock something over

>> No.14777399

>>14776468
i've never seen flooring in a house like that in my life. wtf is this? you're lying, that's like, the basement in some place that used to be a warehouse and is now a hipster hangout.

those shelves are /aesthetic/ though.

>> No.14777452

>>14776529
I actually really like the yellow.

…and I've already killed myself. So reply with something else.

>> No.14777734

>>14776586
Wheres the Poe's law strategically placed Mein Kampf and 12 Rules for Life?

>> No.14777758

>>14777452
>ghostposting in 2020

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>>14776889
This is the kind of person that owns a bookshelf like that...

>> No.14777816

>Home library
Pigs, books should not be involved in commodity fetishism. Public libraries have everything.

>> No.14777836

>>14777816
>Public libraries have everything.

No they don't.

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>>14777816
>Public libraries have everything.

Public libraries routinely throw rare books into the garbage because no one has borrowed them recently. Public libraries are the enemy.

>> No.14777842

>>14776468
If you can afford that much empty space you have too much money not spent on lit things.

>> No.14777848

>>14777452
Kill yourself again.

>> No.14777877

>>14777836
>>14777839
Don't know where you guys are from. Libraries here only throw out double copies, and the big ones have more or less everything you could need (add access to a uni library and you're fixed).

>> No.14778064

>>14776529
How could one (1) post be so wrong?

>> No.14778069

>>14776468
That floor is cheese.

>> No.14778234

>>14776586
>Go away
>I'm retarded

>> No.14778329
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>>14776586
I know this was posted ironically, but I seriously doubt the person who originally took this pic ever got ten pages into the Poe collection.

>> No.14778403

>>14776586
>family portrait
so you're not white eh, leave this board now

>> No.14778415

>>14778403
t. colorblind

>> No.14778450

>>14778415
>brown hair
>white
pick one

>> No.14778605

>>14778450
t. colorblind confirmed

>> No.14778724

>>14778450
not even varg would agree with you, retard

>> No.14778737

>>14778450
Name a single non-white ethnicity with naturally occurring brown hair.

>> No.14778741

>>14778737
South Koreans

>> No.14778839

>>14778737
Brits

>> No.14778862

>>14778737
micks, wops, kikes, pollacks, gypsies, wogs/dagos generally

>> No.14778865

>>14776586
based

>> No.14778932

>>14776529
Fpbp

>> No.14779133

>>14776468
All these incels mocking this interestig Floor, the woodpanels on the Wall are the problem, the Floor Just needs cleaning

>> No.14779157

>>14776586
If the best books on your shelf are Little Women and Vainity Fair it’s time to make a change

>> No.14779215

>>14777877
How do you get access to a uni lib if you're not a student?

>> No.14779250

>>14776586
The first half of Death Note is pretty good so I guess it's not all trash.

>> No.14780232

>>14779215
Some uni libraries have visitor cards. Might cost money though, my local uni's was $20/year.

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>>14779250
>muh L
Also the anime is better.

>> No.14780988

>>14777839

>His library doesn't sell unborrowed books for pennies on the dollar

Must suck to live in some hayseed hellhole, Anon

>> No.14781000

>>14776468
what a horribly uncomfortable room

>> No.14781001

>>14779215

Some public library systems have inter-library loan agreements with universities for books that public libraries don't carry, like obscure philosophical textbooks. It's how I found Deleuze's book about Spinoza.

>> No.14781071
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I’m having trouble reorganizing my shelves because I have a lot of academic studies on my favorite writers but I’m unsure of mixing them in with the primary texts or leaving them in a separate section.

>> No.14781118

>>14776468
you make me want to mug you

>> No.14781306
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These pictures used to get spammed here incessantly and I always thought I'd like a library like this.

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>>14776586

>> No.14781332

>>14776586
>this what women read

>> No.14781449

>>14781071
Why do you have five copies of The Recognitions?

>> No.14781585

How did you guys become so rich you can afford a furniture? When I buy books I have barely enough left to pay my rent and some meals. Do you steal your books?

>> No.14781593
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>>14781585

I live with my parents.

>> No.14781622

>>14776468
Too much empty space and those faux industrial shelves suck ass

>> No.14781651

>>14781071
>should primary and secondary lit be on the same shelf?
>should fiction and non-fiction be on the same shelf?
they shouldn't be in the same room, you pleb

>> No.14781656

>>14781306
that looks like a thrift shop where you pay a dollar per pound

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>>14781593
>that Casanova edition
based beyond salvation

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>>14781449
I like it a lot. But really, I kept finding them in used book bins and didn’t want them to be thrown away. So now I just keep em. I think I had a problem.
>>14781593
This
>>14781651
Thanks for the input, I felt uncomfortable with the Beckett section.

>> No.14781742

>>14776646
I think its a woman wearing a very pale pink dress

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>>14776468
Hideous. Even my little home library is more welcoming and comfy than that sickly sterile space. A true library should welcome you, and make you want to settle into a comfortable chair or warm couch and read for hours.

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>>14781593

I want to caress those spines.