Bookshelves

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

I solved problem of not having enough "spaces" on the bookshelf (the books are organised broadly by subject, with each one having an end of a shelf) by creating a middle space on the second shelf up. Although I need to find some better dividers. They're older books and need proper vertical support, and then I can use those bookends on other shelves. Never enough bookends.

They were on the 5th shelf but that was too full, so I'd had to pull books out and put them sideways so that's fix (the ones sitting on top aren't going to go on a shelf because they're too fragile. They're a problem). And in the space created I put the ballads books, which had a couple that are too high for where they were. Shelves are never high enough. That's why there is fiction on the 4th shelf. That is lower than it looks and none of the "subject" groupings are low enough to call fit in there, other than "Miscellaneous small books". "Miscellaneous big books" being most of the bottom shelf.

Comments

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

When my dad had the new shelves built (which are now almost as full as the old shelves), I tried to organise my books a bit on the part I claimed for myself. Should have claimed more.... Anyway, I put the fiction to the left then the non-fiction to the right. Authors together in fiction; subjects together in non-fiction. Hence the two Trafalgar books are next to each other. Need more space!

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

More space is necessary for proper arrangement of books so they can be best utilised. Although I've noticed my arrangement seems to encourage me to "fill the gaps".

My fiction is arranged by colour!

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

Nature loathes a vacuum. Or something. (How do you ever find anything in fiction????)

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

There are only three shelves, and mostly it goes on there and stays there.

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

Ah. That probably helps. My shelving is a theoretical model of perfection and an actual nightmare....

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

You need to Fix It

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

This will require More Shelves.

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking make shelves from books i.e. rest planks on piles of books.

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

Yeees, but if you remove a few of the books supporting the planks, won't the whole thing collapse? Book Jenga!

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

So don't remove them!

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

But but but...what if you want to read them? Or consult them? What then?????

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

You choose them carefully

[littlerdog.livejournal.com]

As I thought. Jenga.