Shelf Thread

[Anonymous No.19807275]

Sex edition

[Anonymous No.19807277]

I hate sex

[Anonymous No.19807295]

>>19807275
How is that Tom Holland Herodotus from Penguin?

[Anonymous No.19807306]

>>19807275
Oxford chad reporting in.

[Anonymous No.19807356]

>>19807295
The binding isn't the best (picrel), and the pages feel a bit thin. Otherwise, the book as a whole has a vibrant and More-Esque translation. It feels just like Fagles' translations. I haven't read the introduction though.

[Anonymous No.19807362]

>>19807356
oh no... I thought Penguin Deluxe books have use good glues, etc. Are the notes sufficient at least? What about maps? Thank you for answering

I'm waiting for his "Lives of Caesars" it's gonna come out this March 3rd I believe. At least we'll get that one in hardback...but still glued.

[Anonymous No.19807384]

>>19807362
Here is the glossary, notes for each book, and maps. Very, very sufficient

[Anonymous No.19807389]

>>19807362
Here is one of the maps. Also very sufficient.

[Anonymous No.19807405]

>>19807384
Nice! that's very thick. I've been choosing between that and the Everyman's Library edition which is about a few dollars more expensive than the Penguin Deluxe paperback but I have no idea about their contents whether they have maps and other notes. >>19807389 Thanks for this.

I'm leaning towards the Penguin now but I have yet to see what's inside the Everyman's though for the translation, the Penguin one is one of the most recent AFAIK.

$24usd Penguin Deluxe paperback vs 28usd Everyman's Library smyth sewn... Tough choice actually but the contents matter more to me.

[Anonymous No.19807502]

>>19807405
I always rep Penguin when possible, they have good printings with both the Deluxe series and the classics series.

[Anonymous No.19807527]

[Anonymous No.19807564]

>>19807306
This is like having funko pops on your shelf

[Anonymous No.19807570]

>>19807384
marry me you fat pig

[Anonymous No.19807578]

>>19807564
Do you prefer Penguin and Wordsworth?

[Anonymous No.19807583]

>>19807564
Or MacMillan?

[Anonymous No.19807585]

>>19807570
Yes

[Anonymous No.19807591]

>>19807564
Or America-something?

[Anonymous No.19807597]

>>19807564
How so?

[Anonymous No.19807603]

>>19807591
Or Signet?

[Anonymous No.19807605]

>>19807583
these are as bad as Dover in their own way, I only have Vanity Fair and the font is so tiny
that other anon is on crack, OWC and unjacketed LoA are God-tier

[Anonymous No.19807619]

>>19807603
Or Vintage?

[Anonymous No.19807621]

>>19807405
Not him but I like the penguin deluxe herodotus. Plenty of maps and notes on the back and the translation is enjoyable to read

[Anonymous No.19807628]

>>19807603
>he didn't get le morte de arthur from signet classics
Why?

[Anonymous No.19807749]

>>19807603
ok faggot now show us the front cover of iliad LMAO
I like signet's plato and augustine

[Anonymous No.19807847]

I'd post my shelves but you'd all come and rob me

[Anonymous No.19808615]

1/10

[Anonymous No.19808623]

2/10

[Anonymous No.19808632]

3/10

[Anonymous No.19808637]

4/10

[Anonymous No.19808642]

5/10

[Anonymous No.19808645]

>>19807405
BOth are at my used book store for 1.50. The penguins, and Illiad and Odessy. The modern librarys are scooped up by resellers.

[Anonymous No.19808655]

6/1

[Anonymous No.19808664]

7/10

[Anonymous No.19808671]

8/10

[Anonymous No.19808674]

Here

[Anonymous No.19808676]

9/10

[Anonymous No.19808682]

10/10
Fiction that has run off my shelves because I need another bookshelf

[Anonymous No.19808686]

>>19807306
Move aside for the most brutal Penguin Classics mogging of your life

[Anonymous No.19808697]

>>19808674
Been collecting oxford, heritage, nonesuch fa, and limited publishers. Got more in the living room

[Anonymous No.19808706]

>>19808682
Need help building one? Do you own your house?

[Anonymous No.19808710]

>>19808686
Beat this

[Anonymous No.19808715]

>>19808706
Fuck off boomer we know you built your own shelf nobody cares

[Anonymous No.19808716]

>>19808637
Really nice collection. Jon Ronson also has something interesting, I think called "Extremists," on Alex Jones types a little before they were internet household names, and there's a really interesting brush in that book with the actually serious and darker side of the power elite. If I'm remembering correctly.

Why the Fidus out of curiosity?

How's the Ridley book on Freemasonry?

Have you read Charles Upton and Seraphim Rose on extending Vallee's thesis?

[Anonymous No.19808744]

>>19808716
I look into that Extremist book, thanks.

I love Fidus because of his influence on the late 19th century Jugend movement, which to me indirectly inspired the Wandervogel movement and later on the hippie movement, which was the full circle punishment for hedonism. But the idea of being a hippie 19th century pagan wizard who runs around naked was very appealing to me.

The Freemason book is good, I’d say the seminal text on them without reading lizard people David Icke bullshit.

I haven’t, but Seraphim Rose is on my to-read list and I can’t wait to scratch that itch.

[Anonymous No.19808759]

>>19808715
My wife and inlaws like it!

[Anonymous No.19808793]

>>19808710
Man with Homebuilt-in shelves here:
I appreciate your collection, and would very much like to see it in a Cherry or English Oak Bookself in a dimily lit room which celebrates the cloth coverings of those everymen and classic Modern library books.
That collection doesn't look cheap at all, especially with how much people are pa ing for things like Dante, Plato, Augstin, Aquina, etc.

[Anonymous No.19808797]

based shelfnigger evangelizing shelfism

[Anonymous No.19808801]

>>19808615
>>19808623
>>19808632
>>19808637
>>19808642

I didn't see it, but do you have Vico? He might fit in with your interests.

[Anonymous No.19808810]

>>19808642
That Cantos, in praise of Folly, and Oblomov are editions I greatly desire.

>>19808664
I've also been collecting the field guides but people want waaaayyy too much money for them.

I just cited David Hume in a paper I published to spite people.

[Anonymous No.19808811]

>>19808793
My entire collection is either stolen library books, used books from eBay running me $3-6 each, and seldom a new purchase of a new release. I don’t spend a lot of money on them.

Also you know nothing about book storage. Shitty ikea shelves are better for book storage because the acids in wood processing makes books decay rapidly. You should use either metal or fake paneled ikea chink wood. Book archivists and libraries use metal shelves for a reason.

[Anonymous No.19808818]

>>19808676
That top shelf is nice.

[Anonymous No.19808819]

>>19808801
I don’t. Sell me on him.

[Anonymous No.19808830]

>>19808810
The field guides are like less than $5 used on eBay or at used bookstores. Look harder

[Anonymous No.19808838]

>>19808797
What did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.19808851]

>>19808793
You're mistaken friendo. The book shelves are made with air-dried lumber, from my local sawmill, and sealed with shellac. Are you familiar with wood finishing?

Having friends who work in publishing, archives, and libraries, I've come to learn a great deal about book storage.

Not only have I had an European archivist as a house guest, but my friend who is the assistant director of a major library system has praised my shelves. He voiced similar concerns until he discovered my wood sealer.

You are also mistaken about those shitty Ikea bookshelves. It's only recently that they've moved away from their Formaldehyde compound based OSB/particle board formulations that not only poisoned your home, but also accelerated the decay of the books.

[Anonymous No.19808855]

>>19808830
I buy books for $1-2 each. My local used bookstore wants 6-25 each for the field guides.

[Anonymous No.19808859]

>>19808851
This fucking guy is in every fucking shelf thread. Somebody kill him

[Anonymous No.19808864]

>>19808819
Vico's new science comports well with the selection of books you have on philosophy, the history of human intellect, and the Western Tradition of critical thinking. From him, I learned to look at some ancient philosophers that I overlooked like Diodorus Siculus.

[Anonymous No.19808866]

>>19808864
Alright, sold. I’ll look into what his best book is

[Anonymous No.19808885]

>>19808864
Isn't Diodorus the historian? Do you mean Diogenes Laertius, the historian of philosophy? I also know Philostratus and Eunapius who I think are bundled together in one Loeb edition. Not trying to be a pedant, I used to confuse Diogenes/Diodorus all the time.

I agree with the Vico recommendation. Berlin has a good chapter on him in Three Critics of the Enlightenment.

>>19808866
Scienza Nuova, I think the burgundy or dark red covered edition is the usual critical one but not sure.

Also recommend adding Quigley to your collection.

[Anonymous No.19808907]

>>19808885
Thanks for the title. What’s Quigley’s whole deal? I’ve come across these names before, but there’s always so much to read I tried to focus on the big names when reading through philosophy.

[Anonymous No.19808924]

>>19808885
Diodorus Siculus is a later Greek historian, Diogenes is the dickhead. I named my wifi "DiogenesLantern" for fun.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/diodorus_siculus/home.html

[Anonymous No.19808929]

>>19808907
He's a mainstream historian of modern history from a macro-political and macro-economic perspective who also happens to think that financial cabals have pretty much conspired to run European and then global politics for at least several generations (at the time of his writing).

Anglo-American Establishment is the shorter easier one, Tragedy and Hope is long but not especially difficult or "theoretical." It's a modern global history focused on Europe that takes it as a matter of course that financiers are the primary power elite.

Have you run into C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite? Also I think Lasch's best book is The Revolt of the Elites, which fits in with your Gasset, but I can't remember if the Lasch you had was that.

I also recommend James Burnham and Samuel Francis' Leviathan and its Enemies. Beautiful Losers by Francis is also good. Paul Gottfried has excellent histories of the conservative movement if you're interested in the history of paleoconservatism, since I saw Buchanan and Kristol.

Another name that might interest you is Piccone, which I didn't see. He's hard to read because all his stuff is buried in old issues of Telos which are weirdly hard to access but there was a recent anthology of his works finally. Here's an overview:
https://c2cjournal.ca/2009/06/where-marx-and-conservatives-meet-the-writings-of-paul-piccone/

[Anonymous No.19809173]

>>19807277
based

[Anonymous No.19809754]

Part of living in room shelf

[Anonymous No.19809760]

>>19809754
Also just put a Mary Wilson life of Blake up

[Anonymous No.19811149]

>>19808645
My used bookstores only get crap like Colleen Hoover or whatever... I haven't gone to it in a long time since the pandemic. I think they ask for vaccine cards or whatever.

[Anonymous No.19811169]

>>19808682
nice desu

[Anonymous No.19811196]

>>19808645
>>19811149
My used bookstore is filled with people who "hustle" for their "side-gigs". I see them there as much as normal people. They get a cart, bring coffee in a thermos, and prowl the shelves scanning every book in the store looking for amazon value. They grab everything.

I see the same people at the goodwills, thrift shops, and the goodwill distribution centers. It's hard to find a good deal these days on books. Those people spend more time trying to avoid working a real job, and grabbing everything they can sell, only to work for less than minimum wage. They don't even know what's valuable. One passed up a first edition form the 1890s with no barcode. I got it for .59 cents at the goodwill, and it's worth anywhere from $500-1000

A couple bring their hipster girlfriends or kids. I feel sad for all of them.

[Anonymous No.19811229]

>>19808851
I am convinced this guy is just trolling now

[Anonymous No.19811246]

>>19811196
That's so good. The only good purchase I've made is buying an uncensored version of "Behold a Pale Horse" I don't even like this kind of shit but it being the uncensored version made me go whatever I'll get it.

I live in the province so maybe that's why there's not much good books here only crappy YA paperbacks.

>>19808924
>Diogenes is the dickhead.
Diogenes the Cynic is the dickhead while Laertus is somewhat comparable to the roman Suetonius

[Anonymous No.19811261]

>>19811229
It's a lack of social interaction in this new work for home world, combined with intellectual isolation from the absence of meaningful academic engagement.

Without a doubt it's fun to stick my finger in the eye of inexperience and ignorance and demonstrate my fine craftsmanship.

[Anonymous No.19811279]

Question: does lit keep the books they have finished separate from the books that are tbr? It’s a silly little thing but I like to have a little shelving ceremony when I finish books, where I pull out the bookmark and put the book in its little home.

[Anonymous No.19811284]

>>19811246
I'm only just now beginning to read the Greeks with seriousness, my apologies, I didn't know there were two Diogenes. I've spent much more time on Rome, but even that's severely lacking in scope and scale.

[Anonymous No.19811297]

>>19811284
No worries. Diogenes the memer is the best. His interactions with Alexander is hilarious. This and "don't block the sun".

[Anonymous No.19811302]

>>19811279
Not really, many books I'll never finish because they're collections of essays, or letters, or some other type of book one refers to but doesn't read cover to cover. Some chapters in monographs are weak and I just skip them after looking at the argument and footnotes.

[Anonymous No.19811310]

>>19811261
I think you are misunderstanding why people are annoyed. They are not *jealous* of your mastery of home bookshelf carpentry, they are annoyed that you have discussed it for longer than you needed to.

[Anonymous No.19811328]

>>19808686
I have a couple of nu-penguins >>19807578

[Anonymous No.19811330]

I need a bookcase /lit/ but I don't live near IKEA. Anything on Amazon? HELP!!!

[Anonymous No.19811338]

>>19811330
Craigslist or fb marketplace if you’re still zuccced. Best you’re going to get for your money.

[Anonymous No.19811341]

>>19808710
Have you read Kaputt yet? I have and been meaning to read The Skin

[Anonymous No.19811347]

>>19811297
>diogenes the memer

[Anonymous No.19811395]

>>19811310
You misunderstand that shellac does a fine job of sealing wood and offers excellent uv protection to and that wood is suitable for book storage my boy.

[Anonymous No.19811504]

>>19811395
Would you recommend shellac over gunstock oil or even tung oil?

[Anonymous No.19811523]

My books are on two wire metal shelves, the shelves in my desk, on top of my desk, the shelf I put ontop of my desk, on top of my dresser, on top of my tv stand, on top of my bed side table, inside my bed side table. in my car, in my closet.


Too many book. Too many place for book.

[Anonymous No.19811528]

>>19807583
Love MacMillan, especially for big books. Love their Moby Dick and Don Quixote. I'd previously read the Grossman translation, and I easily prefer the old 50s language of the MacMillan.
Likewise they have the superior Garnett translation of Crime & Punishment which I've been working on.
Unfortunately they don't have Garnett anything else.

[Anonymous No.19811564]

>>19811504
Tung oil can be difficult, but is a good sealer for wood made from natural resins, if you buy real Tung oil, which requires some research. Your stores probably won't carry it. Gunstock oil is any number of formulations made up of petroleum distallates, waxes, and resins. It's trade secrets but mostly petroleum be distallates, best to use polyurethane or shellac. For durability nitrocellulose lacquer, but that causes brain damage if you use it too often, not after it cures.

[Anonymous No.19811570]

>>19811528
Heritage press is where it's at, huge books and GC translations

[Anonymous No.19811596]

>>19811395
No, I actually used shellac myself when sealing the coffin I will use to entomb your body tonight.

[Anonymous No.19811606]

>>19811564
Yeah real tung oil not the gummy thing like minwax. It's used for guitars so there's a lot of resources of what to get and not ie not minwax. I like it when you apply birchwood casey lightly and wipe it off after a few seconds. It seals while somewhat retaining that natural wood feeling.

[Anonymous No.19811673]

>>19811596
>sealing the coffin
rofl that's not how sealing wood works it's so that you trap in moisture inside or prevent more moisture from getting inside /outside the wood through the grains. But that is funny.

[Anonymous No.19811858]

>>19811570
Damn looks like they have the Maud War and Peace

[Anonymous No.19811919]

>>19811673
You could seal the wood, but it wouldn't make much sense, if it were to be interred. Why would you want to prolong the wood's decay? It would be a better idea to use a fast rotting wood like Beech, Pine, or Birch. It would also be expensive to put so much shellac down. The effort to rub it out would be a tremendous waste better afforded to reading.

>>19811596
You can't really prevent moisture from entering or leaving wood, so you cope with moisture as best you can. Shellac is not ideal for moisture control, an oil-based poly or nitrocellulose lacquer would be better for water resistance. Shellac does best with stains, odors, natural resins in the woods, UV, and does poorly against moisture, heat, and alcohol.
Indeed you are attempting to stabilize the wood, but no matter what you do, the wood will experience seasonal shifts of up to a 1/4 inch movement.

[Anonymous No.19811930]

>>19811606
The only problem with tung oil, other than the cost, is the diluting and it's not as water resistant as other alternatives. It is good that it's natural and won't get you filled with VOC. It can also take a while to cure, so you would have to wait a bit before putting books on it.

[Anonymous No.19811953]

>>19811919
>You could seal the wood, but it wouldn't make much sense, if it were to be interred. Why would you want to prolong the wood's decay? It would be a better idea to use a fast rotting wood like Beech, Pine, or Birch. It would also be expensive to put so much shellac down. The effort to rub it out would be a tremendous waste better afforded to reading.
Sorry I meant in other applications but not for book shelves!

[Anonymous No.19812594]

>>19808674
top shelf is bending. shelf supports too far apart. I'd probably reinforce it with some cheap ply

[Anonymous No.19812609]

>>19808674
This looks extremely dangerous. Is it blocking the door? Did you build this yourself?

[Anonymous No.19812644]

>>19812594
It looks like it is an open back bookshelf, you can put "U profile metal" inserts at the back of the wood. So it becomes more stable but it's already sagging so you have to reset the wood in some way.

This pic is used on some ikea bookshelf which is either compressed ply or MDF I can't remember. I don't know if it will help with real wood like that pic >>19808674

[Anonymous No.19812763]

>>19812609
looks like he *tried to build it himself.

[Anonymous No.19812771]

Where my non english mother tongue speakers at?

[Anonymous No.19812986]

>>19807527
>Castle Faggot
>Anti-Oedipus
>The Screwball Asses
>Ecrits
>The Administration of Fear
>Simulacra and Simulation
>Mythologies

holy fucking based, you have some of my favorites. also, forgot to say mishima as well

[Anonymous No.19813083]

>>19812763
Yep, looks like the build of a millennial who grew up without a father to me. Thinks he knows everything and won't listen to any advice.

[Anonymous No.19813179]

>>19807275

Are ypu incapable of contributing anything of substance?

[Anonymous No.19813459]

>>19812594
No, it's not. The wood is 5/4 walnut and my Berger instrument says it's straight.

[Anonymous No.19813507]

>>19813459
>5/4 walnut
What grain is it? Walnut is generally used as a budget option for cheap flooring and not all of it is meant for heavy duty shelving. If you don't buy good quality from a proper vendor it won't hold the weight of all those books.

[Anonymous No.19813508]

A simple cube shelf I built for the kids' room

[Reddit moderator No.19813528]

>>19813508
can you post a pics of your kids

[Anonymous No.19813538]

I used a 10ft long piece of white oak, cut rabbits, and made walnut dowels for pins. So it has no metal fasteners.

[Anonymous No.19813544]

>>19813538
Great, solid build. A certain anon itt could take notes from a carpenter like you.

[Anonymous No.19813546]

>>19813528

[Anonymous No.19813565]

>>19813544
If you look at the carpet, you might notice similarities between my office and this room...

I've been also been be working on this specialized manga shelf for my best friends's wife. They gave me specs to make it like a curio display. Also walnut and cedar pins

[Anonymous No.19813587]

>>19812771
Here.

[Anonymous No.19813604]

>>19813546
>black rider in The Shire, circa 3018

[Anonymous No.19813620]

>>19813507
You are mistaken. Budget hardwood floors are made of red oak, because it's 1/4 the price per board foot of walnut. I'm restoring these old pieces of redoak for my friend's foyer.

We get weekly price lists from the trade association that controls hardwood prices.


Even at common grades walnut is much more expensive. For selects and firsts like this, you would pay 50 dollars a foot.
White oak and American walnut are both about 20$ a board foot.

You also don't understand sag.

[Anonymous No.19813649]

>>19813507
>>19813620
What grain is it? Do you mean grade? It's double firsts, meaning it's over 12" wide and the highest grade walnut.

It's also incredibly strong, see table for more.

Ash, elm, and red oak are buddy options. Walnut is not.

[Anonymous No.19813661]

>>19813649
No, I meant grain you amateur. What is the grain of your wood?

[Anonymous No.19813673]

>>19813661
Do you mean how is it sawn you idiot?

[Anonymous No.19813684]

>>19813673
Anon if you don't know what grain your wood is, how do you know how much weight it can hold?

[Anonymous No.19813703]

>>19813661
It's quartersawn and flatsawn based on the maximum yield. Modern sawmills combine both methods based upon the log's shape and properties.

Rift/quartersawn vs flatsawn does not affect the strength of the wood. It demonstrates more medullary rays

[Anonymous No.19813760]

>>19813684
Because I've studied the rheology, the stress and strain behavior of wood, and I know that hardwoods do not undergo the same grading for structural grades, so things like cross spiral and diagonal grain, or the quantitatively measured slope of the grain, don't come into play as they do in house walls.

[Anonymous No.19813799]

>>19813684
He's a pseud who won't understand quarter sawn, etc. Probably doesn't know about the Janka scale too.

[Anonymous No.19813912]

>>19813799
Can you explain it to me? Show me how to cut it with the sawmizer maybe?

[Anonymous No.19813922]

[Anonymous No.19813964]

>>19813912
Yeah feed your fingers together with the wood into the processor.

[Anonymous No.19813970]

>>19813799
We milled this one as flatsawn to maximize the 7/9/11 boards for Max profit.

[Anonymous No.19813979]

>>19813912
Are there no guidelines about not using your phone while operating dangerous machinery?

People like you make me nervous.

[Anonymous No.19813983]

>>19813964
Processor? That's an edger. You don't know anything about wood do you?

[Anonymous No.19813999]

>>19808682
>>19808671
>>19808664
>>19808655
>>19808642
>>19808637
>>19808632
>>19808623
>>19808615
Read: 3

[Anonymous No.19814017]

>>19813970
What is your opinion with the CITES stuff?

>>19813983
I'm not a "carpenter", I do luthiery.
We just order quarter sawn maple (Canadian rock maple) from you guys and reshape that with the usual rasp, belt sander, spokeshave, etc. Same with other types of wood that we need.

One of my favorites is a flat sawn bird's eye maple as the fretboard while the bottom is a quartersawn rock maple as a 2 piece neck.

[Anonymous No.19814027]

[Anonymous No.19814073]

>>19814027
>can't reach books because of neck beard/white trash knick knacks
>poor memory, has 2 copies of the complete poems of john keats placed as far from one another as possible

[Anonymous No.19814165]

>>19814073
I love it. Quality works arranged in such a way that speaks to the entropy of disparate influence. This is coming from someone extremely fastidious not only in shelving but also reading.

[Anonymous No.19814613]

>>19814017
People show up with maplelogs sometimes, but we don't cut it's I offered to buy these birdseye logs for a 1000 from my friend, he sold them to a guy up north that specializes in maple for a lot more. Birdseye is going for over a hundred a bf now.

Maple destroys blades faster than hickory or white oak, and only about 30 to 20 percent of hard maple is suitable for woodworking and I imagine 5 percent for finer luthier work.

Maple is big in music, I know a German guy responsible for most of Europe's drum sticks. Unfortunately, I stick to what's blocal, which is walnut, oak, hickory and cedar.

[Anonymous No.19814674]

>>19814017
I don't mess with foreign exotics.

So we don't know where the trees originate, but most are local and come from 3 places, development of new suburbs in the 1.5 hr distance of our city, clearing land for hunting camps or boating camps, and tree farms 100 years old. My sawmill buddy wouldn't be give a fuck either.

As far as I'm concerned, you don't need anything better or on more beautiful than our domestic woods. In my backyard there's cedar, maple white oak, walnut, poplar, black tupelo, dogwood, and black locust. Locust glows under black light too.

[Anonymous No.19814692]

>>19814027
You have some fancy books, that Voltaire and those gibbons both please me to see.

[Anonymous No.19814786]

>>19807603
based

[Anonymous No.19814792]

>>19811196
Overpopulation is truly awful.

[Anonymous No.19814812]

>>19812771
你书要落了,用架子

[Anonymous No.19814840]

>>19811196
I’ve wanted to build a little free library for a while now, since I live on a busy Main Street in Denver. I planned on periodically shopping for high quality titles to fill it from used book stores.

This post makes me want to get started on the project sooner. It always seemed like a good idea to support local bookstores while also providing a community resource, but now to do so antagonistically against hustle culture and rote-profiteering makes that project that much more desirable.

[Anonymous No.19814916]

>>19814840
I went there today with my kids. After we leave the forest where my house is located, it's one of the only things nearby and we have to pass it to go into town. It's a massive used book place with comics,music, toys, electronics, etc.

So I walk by the lit, collections, philosophy, and poetry section and half telhe books are gone. The kids find two books. We leave.

At the checkout two of the fat greasy fuckers are ringing up over a hundred books each. They have bankers boxes filled.

I get to my car, one loads his up and he has a little gay crossover SUV filled with books. Over a thousand books. The space not occur by him or the books is filled with his trash.

Fuck those resellers.

[Anonymous No.19816530]

excuse the mess

[Anonymous No.19816966]

>>19816530
Very nice, Anon. I have that same translation of Anna Karenina.

[Anonymous No.19817071]

>>19814613
>>19814674
Yeah maple definitely big in music, it's very stable too if we roast it in a kiln to remove moisture inside we don't want. Poplar is still used for less expensive guitars it's interchangeable with basswood. You guys gotta get clients from this side if the industry, you can sell a bridge to the corksniffers (tone wood lol) there's so much variance in the tone quality per wood but most people associate X or Y with whatever. Northern ash and swamp ash were one of the most aesthetic but there's currently a restriction on using it because if the dumb "emerald ash borer" beetles.
If you guys ever get spalted or burled logs you can definitely sell that to people like us since that's somewhat where the trend is now.

Those tree species all look so good it won't be too long til it gets used in instruments too in some way.

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>>19817071
Back to the books, soon, but the owner doesn't give a shit about money, he's crazy. I'm just his neighbor, and he gives me lots of free wood, like absurd amounts, and I get all the spalted stuff. They don't want it

Sellers and traders at companies see it as waste, only woodworkers like it, most of our product goes to making hardwood floors and selling wood to SE asia and china for furniture, the rest goes to indiana for flooring

THe ash beetle killed 2 of my trees and 8 of my neighbors, big beautiful trees too.

[Anonymous No.19817279]

>They don't want it
Sellers and traders at companies see it as waste

Yeah and It's quite porous too, it's basically a sick tree that develops that, from a fungi if I remember correctly.

There's some fuckery about it since this thing sells for $5K USD!

About 3/8 thickness of spalted maple glued on top of basswood, alder or mahogany usually.

What is that Third Reich box at the bottom of that shelf?

[Anonymous No.19817550]

>>19817279
When I was a kid, my dad had computers, early adopter, and we played strategy games. He bought that and all the SSI and Gold Box, and Ultima games. I've been selling them off since no one wants them anymore and you can download them for free. I only sell to collectors, fuck resellers.

[Anonymous No.19817556]

>>19817279
Oh alright I thought it was a part of some book + dvd thing

[Anonymous No.19818217]

>>19808674
Wow. Would not feel comfortable sitting near this

[Anonymous No.19818231]

>>19818217
It's pretty distracting having such bounty from which I might draw inspiration, to choose novels, and works, of that divine spirit so resplendent in it's unicity, of the nineteenth century philhellene!

[Anonymous No.19818300]

>>19812609
No, the exterior door to the patio is entirely accessible from within the office, as are the other three portals. Due to the depth of the concrete masonry unit walls that make up the structure of our home, to which my shelf is secured, the door opens in both directions and employs a reinforced exterior storm door.

>>19812763
Dear Friend, one day I wish you great fortune in your undertakings as you exit the dark, dismal, deep cave of despair in which you have found your unceasingly grim outlook.

>>19813083

My dad actually insisted upon me learning to do everything myself. This included automobile maintenance, welding, using a machine shop, power tools, harvesting animals, etc. Although we do not enojy the same close relationship we had during my adolescence and first decades, we do keep in contact these days to mark the birth of a child or the passing of a relative. He and my father-in-law actually gave me most of the power tools I have now that allow me to make book shelves and boxes and like this.

[Anonymous No.19818302]

>>19818300
Pic related

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>>19814073
one is just a dust cover for the Keats
>>19814165
thanks anon I feel superior about my mess now, kek

[Anonymous No.19818662]

>>19814027
I hate your shelf and I'm pretty sure I'd hate you

[Anonymous No.19818664]

>>19814792
then kill yourself you satanic malthusian cunt

[Anonymous No.19818670]

>>19808697
>Moby Dick illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Is that the 1930 edition?

[Anonymous No.19818679]

>>19811261
>Audubon Society
>Not Peterson

[Anonymous No.19818685]

>>19814812
你媽

[Anonymous No.19818714]

Books, amirite? Haha lov'em

[Anonymous No.19819007]

>>19807275
>>19807306
>>19807578
>>19808686
I am new to books what should I get? I got Penguin since I have heard about them a lot, but found them wrinkled very easily; the paper is also thin and white. I like annotations and hate hardcovers.

[Anonymous No.19819121]

>>19819007
Well, that's up to you. The english speaking world is crawling with publishing houses and their collections of classics. If you like annotations and you don't like hardcovers, then it's either Penguin or Oxford. I personally prefer Oxford (better quality, they look better, cheaper) over penguin, but I still buy Penguin because I'm not a fanboy.

[Anonymous No.19819405]

I'm looking to build my own book shelf in the near future. Does anyone have any advice/experience they could share? Many thanks.

[Anonymous No.19819416]

>>19818714
Thurber is a very enjoyable writer, good to see him on here

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[Anonymous No.19819436]

>>19819416
I've read The White Deer and his fables so far but I'm still not really feeling it. But I'm willing to invest more time in him. I have three or four more books of him as well.

[Anonymous No.19820290]

>>19818670
Nah, it's a reprint from the 1950s,1960s in the Modern library Giants format. Still one of the most exp. Books I've bought at 15$

[Anonymous No.19820296]

>>19818714
That klopstock and the Tieck are beautiful. Tieck is hard to find in the us

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[Anonymous No.19821742]

>>19807583
who's the translator of that Bulgakov?

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[Anonymous No.19822485]

>>19821036
Is the Westminster confession the confession that was drawn up when Presbyterians controlled parliament? Or was it more Puritan in nature?

[Anonymous No.19822510]

>>19819007
Penguin is the cheapest mass market shit that only publishes garbage translations they can get for cheap or free from the public domain

[Anonymous No.19822563]

[Anonymous No.19822676]

>>19822563
Nice tome

Got three new books, Crosby is one of my fav reads.

Book reseller got the other volumes of Ferdinand 1856 bio, it was 1.50 per volume

[Anonymous No.19822750]

>>19822485
Most English Puritans were Presbyterians. It was the Americans who were largely congregationalists. Most of the Westminster Assembly were Presbyterians, like five Independents (the “Dissenting Brethren”), and maybe some Episcopalians, Reynolds was one. I think Episcopalians were forbidden by the king from attending.

[Anonymous No.19823406]

>>19819007
If you want non english native books def check translations first, but I like penguins the best simply because they have the best design of any classics series on paperback by a longshot. They also always have an introductory essay and scores of footnotes in the back to assist.

[Anonymous No.19823419]

>>19808686
>those tastefully worn corners
>those absolutely destroyed spines
mfw

[Anonymous No.19823448]

>>19822563
patrician

[Anonymous No.19823640]

>>19823406
Except some have bad translations, I do like penguins for school books, but prefer Norton critical, oxford, or smaller academic presses. I have some brill, but that's money.

[Anonymous No.19823661]

Lots of good shelves in this thread. I will only say positive things and ignore the awful bombs here and there. My most general negative comment would be that it's clear that no one is particular about what translation of a work they get.

>>19807275
I love the Fagles Homer. I wish my Modern Library Plutarch was one volume, hang on to that one.

>>19808676
>>19808674
A good collection of English poets. But if Milton is there, where's Donne? The full shelf has a good look to it.

>>19809754
What's the appeal of Van Gogh's letters? Are they for art megafans or did he have something to say? I see this all the time on eBay, which has decided to show it to me any chance it gets, despite being uninterested. It looks very nice though.

>>19813508
Best in thread, easily

>>19816530
[Fight it out!]

>>19818714
I know negative German but that looks like an ace publisher / imprint. No nonsense bindings.


No picture from me, but maybe in a week when a few orders come in.

[Anonymous No.19823926]

>>19823661
I favor Constance Garnett for translations of Russian, and for French and German novels I can typically read the originals if I need be.

For the classics, I like Daniel Day Lewis's dad and a few other people, but I don't care that much.

[Anonymous No.19823952]

>>19823661
Van Gogh's letters have a beauty to them like many of the great correspondents of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It's the same sort of value that one might have from reading the letters of pathological literary figures like Shelly or Keats.

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[Anonymous No.19824423]

>>19822563
Now this is a guy who takes his memebooks very seriously. Impressive.

[Anonymous No.19824457]

>>19819420
God, I wish I had a room like that. Those books would probably be better off in the hands of someone else, though.

[Anonymous No.19824465]

>>19807275

[Anonymous No.19824498]

>>19824457
I would honestly rather an Instagram Stacey room with a bunch of plants and open windows/sunshine.

[Anonymous No.19825889]

>>19824465
Who printed the Mark and Hume?

[Anonymous No.19826121]

>>19822563
Leaf by Leaf fan I see.