Book collections

[Anonymous No.5322952]

Does it bother you owning a ton of books? It's nice to have a collection, but they also just sit there, taking up space.

What if you have to move into a new place, perhaps a small apartment with less room?

How do you store and organize and transport all your books? Post photos if you'd like.

[Hideo Okuda No.5323012]

Don´t use banana cartons, they will smell terrible. I dont have to move now (school) but when I will move in the future I want my nearly 200 books remain in a good condition.Dificult
Pic not related.

[Anonymous No.5323024]

What is actually considered a lot of books? I also have around 200 (never mind the digital ones) and it doesn't feel like a serious collection.

[Hideo Okuda No.5323047]

>>5323024
Well it depend son which books you have. Of course you always can have more.

Example:
If you have a collection of 50 books from japanese 20century writers in german, you have a god colelction, in english it is great too, but there are more in english.


If you see a book from 2000, which is nearly sold out, I have to be fast.

[Hideo Okuda No.5323055]

stay op!

[Anonymous No.5323059]

i moved to a new apartment last year with a nice space in my hallway for a bookcase and made myself a perfectly sized bookcase for it with my dad out of my parent's old kitchen worktop
sh*t is perfect, but now i've spilled over and am piling books up on other surfaces
i like it anyway
books everywhere should be everyone's natural state here

[Anonymous No.5323061]

>>5322952
I have well over 2000 books. They've taken up 3 full-size bookshelves and I've resorted to stacking them up on the floor of my apartment.

[Anonymous No.5323064]

[Anonymous No.5323068]

>>5323059
also ignore me censoring "shit", i was just on another internet place that swear filters and lost my bearings

[Hideo Okuda No.5323072]

>>5323059
hey, not to be offense, but I would recommend you to but the mirror away.

[Anonymous No.5323079]

>>5323072
it's really handy there and i like it, but anyway it's just attached to the wall and i'm renting and i don't feel in a position to start fucking with the fixtures

[Anonymous No.5323080]

>>5323059
That's pretty cool, was it tricky to make?

>>5323072
It makes it look like he has more books!

[Anonymous No.5323084]

is it just me or can most of the people in this thread barely speak coherent english

[Anonymous No.5323087]

>>5322952
Books arent just a commodity, its the soul of your flat/room. I never trust people who dont have books in their room, they might be aliens.

[Anonymous No.5323088]

>>5323080
nah, it wasn't too bad. my dad did most of the work tbh, he's pretty handy. it's not perfect by any means though, we got lazy measuring i guess and some of the shelves don't fit as snugly as they could
but it does the job nicely

[Anonymous No.5323090]

>>5323079
Well as you like it, my friend

[Anonymous No.5323093]

>>5323084
it's not just you, i'm like that too

[Anonymous No.5323099]

>>5322952
>>5323012
>>5323047
>>5323055
>>5323059
>>5323068
>>5323072
>>5323087
>>5323090
who the fuck are you people

[Anonymous No.5323101]

>>5323080
Well, it is like a bad illusion. The true books doesnt come up enough next to the mirror.

[Anonymous No.5323105]

>>5323084
English isn´t my mother tongue.

[Anonymous No.5323108]

>>5323105
no shit

[Anonymous No.5323111]

>>5323108
no
thread dying?

[Anonymous No.5323126]

What kind of books are you guys reading?

[Anonymous No.5323135]

>>5323126
this guy here >>5323059
this is my overflow in my front room which is mostly comprised of stuff i've read recently

[Anonymous No.5323142]

>>5323135
Want to knwo where to put it?

[Anonymous No.5323149]

>>5323142
no

[Anonymous No.5323159]

>>5323149
Solzhenitysn
what is it about?

[Anonymous No.5324678]

>>5323159
It's about a group of guys in a hospital ward who are all suffering from cancer. You see people from different classes mashed together and their different take on preparing for death, religion, and politics.

[Anonymous No.5324693]

>>5323061
same, although about 300-400 fewer than 2000

[Anonymous No.5324710]

>>5322952
>but they also just sit there, taking up space.

so do I

[Anonymous No.5326039]

>>5323135
>Dawn
How is it? I've been thinking about picking it up

[Anonymous No.5326045]

I only own two bookshelves worth of books.

Although I have moved into a home with a pre-collected library. Also, five portraits of Kafka.

[Anonymous No.5326049]

>>5323135
How is Metropole?

[Anonymous No.5326050]

>>5326045
Show pics of Kafka portraits

[Anonymous No.5326057]

>>5326049
it's neat! very kafkaesque and pretty striking. the main concept works so well and he explores it in satisfying ways

>>5326039
i really enjoyed it, but i think it's probably only for hardcore phil fans. it's a lot more down to earth than you might expect, he's very frank and pretty funny and self deprecating. i found it a very interesting insight into a guy i'm interested in, and the whole package is great with the music and the photos and the book and stuff. it's cool to read about his experiences when he wrote a song whilst listening to that song and looking at his snapshots of the place he wrote it in

[Anonymous No.5326062]

>>5323064
your parents place looks nice

[Anonymous No.5326122]

>>5322952
How could owning lots of books possibly bother someone? I only wish I had more books. You have to transport all your possessions when you move house, heavy furniture included, so owning a smaller library isn't going to make moving house easier in a meaningful way.

[Anonymous No.5326211]

>>5326050
Hold up, pics incoming. Sorry about the delay, got hung up on a game of Civ.

[Anonymous No.5326215]

>>5326211
Okay, sorry for the poor quality, but here it goes. (There are 7 pictures of Kafka scattered around the house, not 5, my roommate pointed them out) This is Kafka one, in the kitchen

[Anonymous No.5326217]

>>5326215
Kafka two, taped to the water heater in our laundry room.

[Anonymous No.5326218]

>>5326217
Kafka three is in a narrow walkway between the kitchen and study.

[Anonymous No.5326219]

>>5326218
Kafka number four is in the master bathroom.

[Anonymous No.5326223]

>>5326219
Kafka five is in the study. It's really just a large portrait of his eyes glaring past yours and into your soul.

[Anonymous No.5326224]

you can roughly keep 600 or so books with 3 book shelves. That is if you double up and stack a bit. I'm dreading the day when I will have to move.

[Anonymous No.5326225]

>>5326223
Kafka number six was drawn alongside Freud.

[Anonymous No.5326228]

>>5326225
Kafka seven as well. Both are in the study.

[Anonymous No.5326234]

>>5326228
Bonus picture. Our front room has a finger, tongue, and vagina.

[Anonymous No.5326246]

>>5326234
Wow mate, what a hip residence you're rockin, haha! I think we'd totally get along if we ever met. Where do you hang out? I spend a lot of time in Southside Coffee, in Brooklyn. Anyway, great pictures, thanks for sharing. Best, mang.

[Anonymous No.5326260]

>>5326246
Tucson near 4th Avenue. Behind a bookstore.

[Anonymous No.5326278]

>>5326260
!!!

I go there from time to time, since I work in the area (I'm an editor for an indie music magazine - but not Pitchfork, they're too commercial thesedays. I had always hoped to write for Downbeat, but oh well!). I dig the finger, tongue, and vagina - I think it's really subversive. Matter of fact, I wrote my grad thesis on sexuality in Kafka's works, and I'm confident he would grok the design! Maybe we'll run into each other around there. I'll be wearing a beret and directing a stressed face towards my iPhone - work is stressful, whattaya gonna do? Anyway, just say hello!

[Anonymous No.5326293]

>>5326278
The original residents are going to Paris.

I honestly do not know much about the original residents, and would be interested in knowing more. What were they like, and why did you visit so often? Were you friends, or did they hold events of a sort in here?

[Anonymous No.5326297]

>>5326234
>Swedish flag on the left
Figures.

[Anonymous No.5326306]

>>5326293
I was really more like acquaintances with them, although one of my close friends was really close to them. They're going to Paris so Tom can pursue an idea he has for a film. He said it'll be like Lost in Translation meets Blue is the Warmest Color - something less passionate than BitWC and focused more on a mature "second honeymoon" than "first infatuation." Still, he said the idea of a sort of Platonic Female Beauty is his Muse, and he wants to make it about aging and beauty, in one sense... But Jacquelyn had wanted to go for a while, since she has a cousin in Paris who's a well-known photographer.

They had a lot of parties, and the conversations were absolutely fascinating! I've never stayed up till dawn having such invigorating conversations - about politics, aesthetics, surrealism, female sexuality. Not even in college, and I went to Carleton! I met lots of really unique, quirky people at Tom & Jacquelyn's parties. I'll miss them a lot.

[Anonymous No.5326311]

>>5326306
I want to believe, but the owners of this house aren't named Tom and Jacquelyn. Making the charitable assumption that you're telling the truth, when was the last time you visited?

[Anonymous No.5326317]

>>5326311
Oh, I last stopped by 'round 2011. I got a job in Chicago, moved out there for 3 years, then decided I missed New York and just recently came back.

[Anonymous No.5326319]

>>5322952
a kindle helps

[Anonymous No.5326320]

>>5326317
I live in Tucson, not New York

[Anonymous No.5326322]

>>5326320
Oh, I thought Tuscon was a place in New York. I'm not even sure why you thought I once knew the people who lived there; I thought it was clear from the beginning that I was mocking you.

[Anonymous No.5326337]

>>5326322
Hilarious.

[Anonymous No.5326382]

>>5326322
This is just golden. 5 stars to you.
Also your posts were all really well written.

[Anonymous No.5326394]

>>5323135
Is that Rosemary Edmond's translation of W &P?

[Anonymous No.5326715]

>>5326394
yes it is

[Anonymous No.5326732]

>>5326062
It's my place

[Anonymous No.5326756]

>>5322952
It wasn't nearly as awful as I thought it would be, I have about a thousand of them. Just a whole bunch of boxes.

It was honestly my favorite part of moving - getting to rearrange my books on the shelves again.

I doubt I'll ever move into an apartment smaller than the one I came from, so that's no worry. At my current place I have a dedicated hobby room, with two walls available to fill with books.

[Anonymous No.5326768]

>>5326756
Another picture, mid-move.

I do think I'm cutting back on buying many before my next move, which I know will be in a year. After that I'll continue unabated.