Personal Libraries?

[larryF]

Anyone have any pictures of their own personal libraries?
I myself made a website in order to database my collection of fiction/lit (didnt include non fiction, of course)

http://larryslibrary.webs.com/


I keep my library in my walk-in closet, so here's some pictures of it, contains around 270 books now. I quite like it, its a quaint little library.


http://larryslibrary.webs.com/lib1.jpg

http://larryslibrary.webs.com/lib2.jpg

http://larryslibrary.webs.com/lib3.jpg

[Paulclem]

That's a nifty library Larry. I don't have space for a personal library, and so I've given up and recycle my books - unless I really really want to keep them.

I've now come to the conclusion that I'll not re-read 98% of what I read again. I may as well give them to someone else then. I find this rather liberating, as I have bought loads and loads of books and struggled to manage them with my limited space. (We have a small house, and there are 3-4 others in this space too).

Your online version is good though. It appeals to my book nerd-ness. I did start a collection of front pages in Library thing, not realising that there was a limit on what I could put up there. I did get inordinate pleasure finding the original covers that I had read and adding them to my list. Alas, the free version did not have sufficient space. i'd still like to do something like it, but I'm rather busy.

[Darcy88]

http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p632/Darcy8881/IMG_0168.jpg

[cafolini]

I have almost everything in the garage nowadays. I have become a Kindle man. Up until recently I rented paper books from a readers' co-op we have going here. Or I bought them for $1 and sold them back for $0.50.

[larryF]

See most of my library was bought at goodwill/salvation army stores or from Amazon's used section where books are as low as 1 penny. And I do actually like to reread certain books from time to time thus my hoarding them as opposed to getting rid of them after finishing them. Also, I have numerous friends who are into or whom i have gotten into reading and so my online list and actual library serves as a practical library for them too, free to borrow anything they like.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Anyone have any pictures of their own personal libraries?
I myself made a website in order to database my collection of fiction/lit (didnt include non fiction, of course)

http://larryslibrary.webs.com/


I keep my library in my walk-in closet, so here's some pictures of it, contains around 270 books now. I quite like it, its a quaint little library.

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Nice collection Larry. well organized both on shelf and in your website database. Looks like you have a reading desk in the closet as well, a great place to get away.






I'm speechless... pardon me for a moment...
Okay, I've collected myself.
Uh...well Darcy, how bout we start with the lamp? What are you attempting to illuminate?
and is that a bowl of Rice Krispie's on the desk?
I hope you have the vapor barrier seams sealed well, I hate to think that your breathing in the glass fibers!
Impressive !!!

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[Basil]

And while we're asking questions, what is beyond yoga, anyway?

[Darcy88]

I'm speechless... pardon me for a moment...
Okay, I've collected myself.
Uh...well Darcy, how bout we start with the lamp? What are you attempting to illuminate?
and is that a bowl of Rice Krispie's on the desk?
I hope you have the vapor barrier seams sealed well, I hate to think that your breathing in the glass fibers!
Impressive !!!


The lamp is just that way. Its broken or something. lol. The fibre-glass insulation is all right. I think.


And while we're asking questions, what is beyond yoga, anyway?

Dante, Twain, Joyce, Schiller, Montaigne, Cervantes, Faulkner, and a host of other greats are in this pic, but the one most visible is the worst book of the sprawling bunch - Beyond Yoga. Its just an awful book. I thought it was just a yoga book but its full of new age crap. Wouldn't recommend it.

[Cotton178]

http://www.ipaddis.info/avatar4.jpgMany of books!I will be read it!

[qimissung]

I expecially love your table, Larry, I covet it. Great setup. It looks like a good space to spend time in. Yours too, Darcy, although I have to say yours looks a bit drafty.

Maybe I'll take a picture of mine one of these days. I don't know if I'll reread anything-and I don't care. I love my books. Keep them I will. (Could anybody send me instructions on posting a pic? I have an account at photobucket. I seem to remember that I need to send it there first, then post it here. Thanks loads)

[Jack of Hearts]

This reader had to give away his 'library.' If you're at all peripaetetic, you can't have a 'library' in a traditional way. A lot of people don't like e-readers but when you have to balance your wanderlust with your love of reading...

Anyways, your library is great.






J

[Sancho]

Darcy,

You look like a man with his priorities straight.

By the way, Nf3.

[stlukesguild]

Darcy... what are you living in? A tree fort? A back-yard shed?

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6958124433_9ab270113b_z.jpg

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7045/6958124553_088361a6cb_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6958124623_36fcc85681_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7202/6958124757_542708cdbe_z.jpg

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A few of my books. It's a little challenging to get a good picture at 1:00 AM when the light is less than idea. I must say it appears the maid's been slacking off. I'll need to have a word with her.

Don't mention it to my wife.:sosp:

[Pensive]

This thread reminds me of the huge collection(s) of books my grandfather owned. Being a university professor of literature, and pretty active in his literary circle, he had dedicated a whole small room just to his several collection of books; some of them being quite ancient. I remember the room having this really weird atmosphere; it almost smelled of books! I wonder if people's personal libraries smell of books as well. We were little children back then but I remember that time being the most active period of my life when it comes to book-reading. The smell of books in the room always attracted us from the other rooms to go there and read something. And it was a very good place for dreams as well. The best dreams I have had awake happen to be confined to that very room. A real pity I have no photos of that place. And even a greater pity is that place is gone, and before selling out the house he donated everything to the university library he taught at.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

This thread reminds me of the huge collection(s) of books my grandfather owned...

...The smell of books in the room always attracted us from the other rooms to go there and read something...

There's nothing quite like the smell of old moth ridden paper and thread bare book covers.
Here's a few pics of our library. Many of the books you see are inherited from my parents and my maternal grandfathers library.

(click on the thumbnails to see larger image)

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/th_IMGP2437.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/?action=view&current=IMGP2437.jpg)

The Ian Fleming collection:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/th_IMGP2435.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/?action=view&current=IMGP2435.jpg)


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/th_IMGP2434.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/?action=view&current=IMGP2434.jpg)


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/th_IMGP2433.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/?action=view&current=IMGP2433.jpg)


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/th_IMGP2432.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/?action=view&current=IMGP2432.jpg)


My garndfather's WW I footlocker books are on the lower shelf:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/th_IMGP2429.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/?action=view&current=IMGP2429.jpg)


Who needs Wikipedia? ...for those who don't trust revisionist history:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/IMGP2431.jpg


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[Darcy88]

Darcy... what are you living in? A tree fort? A back-yard shed?

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That is a shed, a massive high-ceilinged shed that functions as my gym, my study and my fortress of solitude, my misanthrope's haven.

[lawpark]

My bookshelves as of last July - when I finally got it in shape (and of course they don't look exactly like that nowadays ...)

Hey ... how do you guys paste photos? I can only paste through an URL ... or have the pictures as attachment ...

[stlukesguild]

Save the images to your hard drive. Copy and load these images to an image hosting site like Flickr, Image Shack, Picasa, Photobucket, etc... From there you can copy the URL and post.

[lawpark]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6819972880_7e3f73f6c8.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/77765451@N03/6819972880/)


Thanks Stlukes ... now it works!

[Snowqueen]

Who needs Wikipedia? ...for those who don't trust revisionist history:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Books/IMGP2431.jpg


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What a great collection you have there Gilliatt! But people like me still need Wikipedia.
Your garndfather's WW I book collection is amazing too.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

What a great collection you have there Gilliatt! But people like me still need Wikipedia.
Your garndfather's WW I book collection is amazing too.

Thanks Snowqueen.
RE: Yearbooks - I ended up with most of the books from my parents library when they passed away. My siblings weren't interested in the yearbooks and I didn't have the heart to let them go. I have yearbooks starting with 1947 and ending at 1986.

[stlukesguild]

OK... when you go to Flickr, you go to "Share!" For whatever reason, the link under "Grab the link" hasn't worked with LitNet since Flickr upgraded a year or two ago. What does work is going to the HTML/BB Code and cutting the entire thing, which looks like this:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/77765451@N03/6819972880/" title="DSC01771 by lawpark, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6819972880_7e3f73f6c8.jpg" width="448" height="336" alt="DSC01771"></a>

I paste this to a notepad where I then highlight and cut this:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/77765451@N03/6819972880/" title="DSC01771 by lawpark, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6819972880_7e3f73f6c8.jpg" width="448" height="336" alt="DSC01771"></a>

I post this in the box that pops up when you click on the "Insert Image" link above... and voila!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6819972880_7e3f73f6c8.jpg

You can also click on the little magnifying glass symbol that acts as the "View in Lightbox" link. Once you are in the lightbox, click the "View all Sizes" link (top right). You can then simply copy the URL and again post that to the "Insert Image: link:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6819972880_7e3f73f6c8.jpg

[OrphanPip]

You just have to use the BB code

[img] Image url here [/img close bracket

[lawpark]

Thanks for Stlukes help, now I can post images!

I ordered my books mostly in chronological order, and the shelves shown in the above post was the books written something like after 1700.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6966094735_ca33feefb0.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/77765451@N03/6966094735/)

These are non-chronological books, quite random in nature. Some I don't even consider mine. Some are musical scores, some business books, and quite some "books acquired during college times", some are language / linguistics books, some are my wife's books.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6819972816_b7b3877181.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/77765451@N03/6819972816/)

The above are from the earliest time till maybe 1250

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7183/6819972848_25fbdcac15.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/77765451@N03/6819972848/)

These are roughly 1250 to 1700 books.

BTW, of course there haven't been so many books written in say 1644 - when I classify a book as 1644, I include works that cover a historical period that ends in 1644 (e.g. all history books on the Chinese Ming dynasty)