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Bookshelf thread Anonymous Thu Dec 29 05:53:42 2016 No.8898791 [Reply] [Original]

R8, h8, b8, love, hate, compliment, whatever. Post your shelves.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:29:08 2016 No.8898852 >>8898791 I seriously hope this picture is bait

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 07:02:11 2016 No.8898896 feels like 12 years old

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 07:32:25 2016 No.8898936
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Most of my books are in the guest room bookshelf at my parent's house but this is what I managed to take with me when I moved. More of my art books, edgy political books, WWII books and all my comics are back home.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 08:37:53 2016 No.8899114 >>8898791 For once I'd love it if someone would grow a pair and create a Best Of for JUST Science Fiction. It's its own genre and should not be combined with fantasy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 08:48:49 2016 No.8899138 File: 3.68 MB, 1563x3206, 20161224_160731.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Reposting from last thread since no one commented and i need the validation.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 08:51:57 2016 No.8899146 >>8899138 You have pretty epic taste, my good sir.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:16:15 2016 No.8899181 File: 142 KB, 640x478, image_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not all books, several- including Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar, Dune, Nausicaä, Catullus, Nietzsche and Stirner- are at college.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:17:17 2016 No.8899183 File: 108 KB, 640x478, image_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899181

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:18:20 2016 No.8899189 File: 150 KB, 640x478, image_7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899183

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:19:22 2016 No.8899193 File: 143 KB, 640x478, image_11.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899189

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:20:24 2016 No.8899197 File: 128 KB, 640x478, image_13.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899193

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:21:26 2016 No.8899201 File: 129 KB, 640x478, image_19.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899197

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:22:28 2016 No.8899205 File: 136 KB, 640x478, image_23.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899201

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:23:30 2016 No.8899209 File: 95 KB, 640x478, image_26.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899205

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:23:47 2016 No.8899210 >>8899189 >>8899181 >>8899183 >>8899193 >>8899197 >>8899205 How are these ordered?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:24:49 2016 No.8899214 File: 127 KB, 640x478, image_29.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899209

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:26:08 2016 No.8899222 File: 108 KB, 640x478, image_31.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899214 >>8899210 Loosely; by theme/provenance/genre.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:27:10 2016 No.8899227 File: 93 KB, 640x478, image_35.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899222 (the unmarked book in there is an Italian grammar from my grandfather's college days)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:28:54 2016 No.8899239 File: 121 KB, 640x478, image_36.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899227 >>8899210 >>8899222 Philosophy books by rough chronology, European novels by a mix of alphabetic and east-west, everything else by chronology, alphabet, and/or size.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:29:16 2016 No.8899241 >>8899222 Ok. I was just wondering because I am used to sorting by alphabetical order of authors. Really cool taste by the way.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:29:56 2016 No.8899243 File: 124 KB, 640x478, image_38.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899239

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:31:16 2016 No.8899248 File: 106 KB, 640x478, image_39.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899243 >>8899241 Thanks. I know where everything is so I can prioritize æsthetics (as much as one can with a bunch of oddly-sized, weirdly colored paperbacks)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:32:19 2016 No.8899256 File: 129 KB, 640x478, image_46.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899248 (using the histories for a term paper I should have started)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:33:23 2016 No.8899261 File: 152 KB, 640x478, image_52.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899256 >>8899227 Publication page of the Æschylus.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:34:26 2016 No.8899265 File: 142 KB, 640x478, image_54.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899261 No, that was the interior. This is the publication. Finivi.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 09:37:42 2016 No.8899274 File: 83 KB, 695x494, Newtype_Special_02.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8899265 At this point I need to stop buying books and instead read them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 10:54:51 2016 No.8899478 >>8899146 Thank you my friend.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 11:37:14 2016 No.8899595 embarassed to post mine because its full of CRAP

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 11:41:26 2016 No.8899611 >>8899595 Then remove it from the shelf.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 12:20:19 2016 No.8899795 >>8899595 Just post it you pussy. It's anonymous.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 14:26:44 2016 No.8900347 >>8898936 Have you read anatomy of melancholy? If so what can you tell us about it? Did you like it? Would you recommend it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 14:29:05 2016 No.8900357 File: 28 KB, 336x186, 02013023.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 14:29:38 2016 No.8900361 >>8899795 That just makes the comments all the more biting because you guys don't get any points for insulting me, you're doing it just because you know how terrible I am.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 14:32:37 2016 No.8900376 >>8899265 >>8899261 >>8899243 >>8899227 Fuck, that's cool.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 14:44:08 2016 No.8900435 File: 2.23 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_1144.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 14:45:32 2016 No.8900445 >>8899214 Cool

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 14:46:51 2016 No.8900454 >>8899595 Don't be afraid, anon.

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 14:49:20 2016 No.8900462
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>Snowy and cold day
>Hear footsteps outside
>Hear the rumbling of the mailbox
>Go outside in the snow in my pyjamas
>It's my copy of Meditations On The Peaks
>Stand there for a few sec

Is there a better feel than picking up new books from your mailbox?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 15:09:47 2016 No.8900532 >>8899261 >Xerxes: Heu, heu, heu

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 15:11:16 2016 No.8900539 >>8898791 noice tolkien and pkd m8

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 15:23:26 2016 No.8900584
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This is my shelf at school right now, not pictured are Vertigo and Rings of Saturn by Sebald, Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Satantango by Krasznahorkai, and Augustus and Butchers Crossing by Williams

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 17:18:27 2016 No.8901111 >>8900584 A nice mix you've got there.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 17:31:00 2016 No.8901193 >>8900584 forgot to mention, the shelf is alphatized, and everything from Conrad on I've read already

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 17:36:15 2016 No.8901224 File: 3.68 MB, 3831x2316, bookshelves 2016-12-21 smaller.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 17:43:22 2016 No.8901266 File: 737 KB, 1000x968, wrong.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8901224

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 18:13:37 2016 No.8901417
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It has been a while, friends.

This picture was taken exactly one year ago. Obviously, there've been changes but I'm in the process of moving so wanted to send this as what may be a last hurrah for the old bookshelf.

1/2

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>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 19:43:00 2016 No.8901793 File: 246 KB, 1920x1080, outbreak-company_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw promised myself not to buy any more books until after I move >new books come out next week that I really want I HATE NOT HAVING A BOOKSHELF!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 19:54:28 2016 No.8901830 >>8901417 That's a damn nice collection there friend >>8900462 Comfy as fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 19:59:21 2016 No.8901847 >>8900532 kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:02:53 2016 No.8901859 File: 37 KB, 816x612, 1417794876813.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] question for stemlords and logisticians: can you fit more books on a bookshelf vertically or stacked horizontally or is it the same amount of space taken up regardless

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:04:27 2016 No.8901865 >>8899189 That new Storm of Steel cover looks so gay

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:09:46 2016 No.8901881

>>8901859
Depends on the proportions of the books and how high your stacks are (and so how high your actual shelves are).

For example, have you seen or held a Loeb book? I have enough of them that I try to economize shelf usage. Their height/width are uniform, and their thickness is usually very similar between volumes, so I know that usually a vertical stack of 7+ volumes uses less shelf space than if they were ordered horizontally. Books that are taller will obviously use more shelf space when placed on their sides.

Also vertical stacks are annoying to retrieve books from. I only vertically stack multi-volume sets.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 23:32:15 2016 No.8902661 >>8899138 Please rearrange by heigth and repost friendo.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 09:10:23 2016 No.8903970 >>8902661 No thank you. I will stick to alpha once i get a new shelf.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 14:19:18 2016 No.8905014 >>8901224 Are you going to organize the same way when you're done moving?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 14:30:12 2016 No.8905045 >>8900584 Have you cracked that David Crystal book? I really enjoy his approachable English language history dissemination and I've been looking to get into some of his other work.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 14:38:11 2016 No.8905073 http://9gag.com/gag/ao2x2Em

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 14:57:31 2016 No.8905146 It's the same old question: why do people here feel like they have to show off their collections, if they hardly have any books at home? Makes you look like fools and you don't even realize.

>>	noko Fri Dec 30 15:01:30 2016 No.8905159 File: 71 KB, 526x706, 15493809_10154902569731522_7556830779246693851_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dumping

Anonymous Fri Dec 30 15:02:27 2016 No.8905162

>>8905146
Do you have autism? People don't always keep all the books they've read. I know that unless I really enjoyed a book and see myself rereading/referencing it later on, I will donate it to a used bookstore.

People just want to show off their interests and perhaps their reading tastes.

>>	noko Fri Dec 30 15:04:03 2016 No.8905166 >>8899274 SKU is awesome

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 15:13:41 2016 No.8905193 >>8905146 I think I can tell a lot about somebody by the books they own. That's why I enjoy these threads.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 30 18:01:37 2016 No.8905731 >>8905045 I bought it 2 years ago for $3 in the bookstore near my house because it looked really cool, but I've been too busy reading fiction to crack it so far. I'm probably gonna start it next month when I get back to school

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