We have bookshelves. A smallish one in the sitting room with non fiction 'coffee table' books. And a large one in the bedroom where OH keeps his collection of aircraft books. He also has a cupboard full of books, and I have a small box of fiction 'keeps'.
Countless books. Two bookcases with glass doors; 2 open shelves near the kitchen; 10 open shelves in the guest room plus more on the floor underneath & 3 tottering stacks on the landing. I try to exercise a “one in / one out” policy but clearly it’s not entirely successful, so the occasional scourge is the answer. The >150 OS maps don’t help.
I’ve lost several much-loved books by lending them to people who have since forgotten they still have them “by the bed”. Oops, that’s another pile but it’s small: the next lot of bedtime reading, can’t get to sleep without it.
Quote: Originally posted by daveyjp on 06/5/2025
Mine have been converted to whisky shelves for the ever growing collection. Far more fun than books!
And worth more than most books. OH has some good single malt whiskies in a cupboard & we recently got a huge shock checking their current auction prices.
When we moved to this house about 8 years ago, I did a thorough weeding of books - I had a lot! We started off with a number of gardening, countryside, cookery books, but this has since grown. I now also have a sizeable medieval history collectionas well. Fiction still tends to be picked up second hand and then moved on, although I do have a small shelf unit of "keepers".
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You should see my brother’s house, it is just one big book shelf. I can just manage to get through the door. He stands no chance of reading them all, although he does usually have 3 or 4 books on the go at any time. Problem is, he sits down o read and promptly falls asleep.
Quote: Originally posted by Ancient Uncle on 07/5/2025
You should see my brother’s house, it is just one big book shelf. He stands no chance of reading them all, although he does usually have 3 or 4 books on the go at any time. Problem is, he sits down to read and promptly falls asleep.
That dozing happened to my dad, made him & my mum cross but he couldn’t help it. His GP charged the heart meds & the dozing stopped, so he got back to reading several library books a week.
Dad was a big reader, and after Mum died, he took part in a survey to compile the book "Flora of Monmouthshire". Plants were his main interest, he worked in gardening all his life. The main author of the said flora wrote an appreciation of Dad, Bob Fraser and got nearly every fact wrong.
We have far too many books and need another trip to a charity shop to give more away. Our back bedroom has 4 long shelves along one wall and we have loads more in boxes in another room upstairs. We have fiction, non-fiction, guide books, manuals, and a few biographies. We'd never be able to read them all in our remaining lifetime.
Gave away 6 'banana' boxes of fiction just after 'lock-down'. Still got a book case im wide, floor to ceiling full and books piled either side for either charity or locally run libraries. Plus a pile of about 30 or so to actually read!
Our culled books go off to the second hand bookshop at National Trust for Scotland property Culzean. (CCC site next door & Thomaston Farm CS across the road). Run by volunteers. They raise £30K pa for projects in the park, like restoring buildings back into use, paying for equipment for the schools’ outdoor resource program etc. Any well illustrated natural history books go away to the local primary school. And they sell DVDs because TV reception is so bad at the CCC site that people buy DVDs to watch instead. OS maps get snapped up too.
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Topic: Bookshelves
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