Running out of space

[subterranean]

I'm having problem to store my books. I need a new shelf, but there isn't any space left in my room :(. I already have 2 boxes filled with books which I put in the corner and I don't really like doing that coz it made me forgot what sort of books I have, plus fungus will destroy them. The number of books that I have is increasing as well as my CDs, so these two things are competing for getting a proper storing place. and I don't really want to give them away...no way !!
I wish there's another space in my house which I can use as a library, but the house is so damn full !!

So, do you peeps have better storing trick, which is more efficient to store your books properly?

thanks :)

[DumbLikeAPoet]

Book shelves.....and only for books that I really like. Otherwise I just let the local library keep them on their shelves :)

Jonus

[Isagel]

I put my books in double rows on the shelves. That helps. And I´m saving money for shelves that go all the way up to the ceiling. (Ikea have these shelve add-ons that make the shelves higher than normal) For I while I even had books in the windows - but the light isn´t good for them. My fiance and I threw away some kitchen stuff. That way we could have books in the kitchen cupboards. The hall is a good room for books. We have the walls lined with shelves.

As I´m reading this I realise I´m hopeless. Get rid of some books.

[Koa]

Hm I just pile them everywhere I can...
And they do gather a lot of dust...:(

[amuse]

...after taking careful stock for an extremely long time, i began donating to the local salvation army/other thrift shops. when i was little, my mom would take me there, and i could buy books for 25 cents. i wanted others to have the same opportunity to love my books as i had.

[Shea]

I have two entertainment centers along with regular book shelves that I use. Most of them are in the garage because my husband hates clutter in our regular living space. He only likes the hard bound "scholarly" looking ones on the living room entertainment center. But all the others that I use regularly are on my sewing room e.c. Like Isagel, I keep trying to insist to him that having built in shelve to go to the ceiling would be nice, especially since we have cathedral ceilings, but we're not quite married a year-- one project at a time.

[IWilKikU]

I havn't ever run out of book space in my house, but my dorm room is getting crowded. I have to send books home, but I can only bring myself to do that if I have already read them.

[crisaor]

No secret way of storing books here, Sub. If you're running out of space (and can't rearrange the current location of things), I'd advise you the same that Isagel did: get rid of some books. Keep only what you plan to reread in the future.
Sometimes, letting go of unnecessary things can be quite an experience. Take the time to let go, but do it, if you consider it appropriate.

[IWilKikU]

I just can't do it!

[crisaor]

You know Kik, sometimes the things you own end up owning you...

[subterranean]

Originally posted by IWilKikU
I just can't do it!



Totally agree...I don't want to give them away, not even one. I mean I saved my money to buy each one of them :(
I know some books that I have are cheap stuffs..I mean I also have that harlequin books, but I bought them. Well I don't know I'll think about it

Thanks


Isagel, you amazed me..:D Books in kitchen shelves..:D :D

[imthefoolonthehill]

make your own shelves. get a couple of 2X4s... put em next to each other, screw them together.... like this |_ then slap it up next to the wall, and screw it into the wall (find a stud first... )

if you want to get REALLY fancy, you could get two more 2X4s (or anything really, and slap em on the end... tudah bookends!

find two or three studds, and get 2X4s long enough to stretch across them. You can do as many layers as ya like... thats a good way to store books...

When my parents built the house, they had a great idea... next to my built-in desk right by the window, they had the builder install built in shelfs... so I started out with room enough for 200 or so books... plus I can add as much as I need to... seeing as how my room is 9 feet tall and I am under 6 feet... I don't really need those three feet of space.

*done rambling*

[IWilKikU]

Originally posted by crisaor
You know Kik, sometimes the things you own end up owning you...
And sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

[crisaor]

That's poetry for ya.

[atiguhya padma]

Did you apply scientific method to come to that conclusion:)

[Lara]

Sorry to say, it doesn't get any better Sub. I have the same problem in my home. There is nothing I would like more than to have a large library in my home filled with countless literature of all kinds. Unless you somehow come upon lots of money that you can buy a large home to store all your treasures in the manner you like, well, you're just going to have to make do. Perhaps you can store them in those large plastic containers to protect them with a list of what's inside.

[Isagel]

Originally posted by atiguhya padma
Did you apply scientific method to come to that conclusion:)

Thanks for that lovely picture. Now I´m blind. :cool:

Actually, although this might hurt you Subterranean I would really suggest getting rid of some books. I did it last month. I gave away all books I could not find a good reason to keep. Now I´m surrounded by books I love. And some space for new books.

Thats good. Because now comes the gloriuos time, known in Sweden as the Booksale. All over Sweden, in every store , they have huge sales on books. It´s better than Christmas. It started at midnight and will continue for about two weeks or until the books are sold. During this time you can see bookloving swedes carrying huge paperbags filled with books. Wish me luck on my hunt. Hopefully I´ll be able to find a copy of Heart of Darknessand some new poetry books. (they usually have this giant all -works- in- one-volume collections of famous writers special printed for the booksale, got Poe´s collected works with old fashioned artprints last sale for about 5 dollars)

[Cassandra]

That sounds really cool. I wish someone could start that in england.

[atiguhya padma]

I have often had book-shifting sprees. I came up with an idea a little while ago, but never put it into practice. Not sure whether it would work in a city like London. But anyway, it was this:

Take an unwanted book on every journey you make on the London Underground, and leave it there. Put a message in the book asking the finder to read it and then leave it again on the Underground. Maybe set up a website so that people can post where and when they found their book, and where and when they left it. This would then turn the London Underground into a circulating library.

It might work in LA or somewhere a bit more experimental in the States, but I reckon apathy would defeat the objective in London. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong?

[IWilKikU]

Uhhh, I'm pretty sure it work better in London than in LA, but I don't see it working very well in either city... Unless you started it out with like 1000+ books. Even that might not be enough.

[den]

Geeze atiguhya padma, haven't you heard of www.bookcrossing.com Great way to get rid of those (albeit few) books you don't want anymore.

[atiguhya padma]

Yeah, I did check out that site Den.

But just the thought of people leaving books on underground trains and them travelling in the caverns of London, passing from commuter to commuter and maybe ending up scattered eventually to the boundaries of the land, languishing in second-hand book shops on the shores of old Britannia, collecting cobwebs until they're discovered by breezy holidaymakers who take them, my little babies, all the way back screaming to the metropolis, orphaned on trestle tables beneath Waterloo Bridge, labelled with overpriced figures and prostituted to a throwaway consumerist public that'll probably eat fish and chips from off their darling jackets, just fills my bursting heart with the kind of romantic feeling fit for aristocratic entitled young playthings locked away in Palladian houses in the depths of pastorality. But I lie. I didn't really think or feel that at all. You're right. I'll ship 'em over to www.thingymajig website place.

:)

Actually that must have been a lie when I said it was a lie. Cos I must have thought that, if I wrote it down here. Unless I'm into automatic writing and am unaware of the fact. Anyway, that's enough of that rubbish. I'd better disrobe myself and collapse into a bed somewhere. Nighty-night.;)

[fayefaye]

I just land my junk wherever there's a patch of space. But I like it like that. When eveything's neat, I can't find anything. My mind's a mess, my life's a mess, my room's a mess. chaos theory exemplified. ;) somewhere down the line it all makes sense. :) My books are scattered wherever... sometimes it takes forever to find them, but only if I search everywhere, and THEN find out it's on a bookshelf *gasp.*

[IWilKikU]

1500!

[Koa]

Originally posted by fayefaye
I just land my junk wherever there's a patch of space. But I like it like that. When eveything's neat, I can't find anything. My mind's a mess, my life's a mess, my room's a mess. chaos theory exemplified. ;)

Amen!

Wait, wasn't this how life has to be? Cos if it is, mine is perfect! :D

Eheh faye, we belong to the same starsign ;)