Super Fantasy
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Okay, I'll bite. This is our fiction library, which resides in the living room. We have a big office, but it's not big enough for the whole physical library, and thank heavens for ebooks because there are at least this again in digital, so about 2000 more titles. A lot of our physical books are out of print or hard-to-find editions, like our copy of Heinlein's uncut Stranger in a Strange Land.
Yes, the walls are blue and awesome sexy. Soon the rest of the house will follow!
And then we have the research library which gets to actually be in the office. I like to be able to spin around in my chair and read over the titles while I try to get some random thought bit to rattle loose from my squiggy little brain. Our writing reference library is also here, as is my mom's body of work and some of my dad's medical books. As you can see, the animals also spend much time in the office with us, and yes, dusting is on the agenda.
Yes, the walls are blue and awesome sexy. Soon the rest of the house will follow!
And then we have the research library which gets to actually be in the office. I like to be able to spin around in my chair and read over the titles while I try to get some random thought bit to rattle loose from my squiggy little brain. Our writing reference library is also here, as is my mom's body of work and some of my dad's medical books. As you can see, the animals also spend much time in the office with us, and yes, dusting is on the agenda.
pmmg
Myth Weaver
I don't have much of a library. Most of my books from over the years are in bins in my storage unit. I have like...less than 10 that might be books of mine in the house, and I am not sure they are still there. The only physical book I have currently is Mr. ThinkerX's.
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Super Fantasy
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niceOkay, I'll bite. This is our fiction library, which resides in the living room. We have a big office, but it's not big enough for the whole physical library, and thank heavens for ebooks because there are at least this again in digital, so about 2000 more titles. A lot of our physical books are out of print or hard-to-find editions, like our copy of Heinlein's uncut Stranger in a Strange Land.
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Yes, the walls are blue and awesome sexy. Soon the rest of the house will follow!
And then we have the research library which gets to actually be in the office. I like to be able to spin around in my chair and read over the titles while I try to get some random thought bit to rattle loose from my squiggy little brain. Our writing reference library is also here, as is my mom's body of work and some of my dad's medical books. As you can see, the animals also spend much time in the office with us, and yes, dusting is on the agenda.
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Super Fantasy
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I need shelves for my novels/books.
Depending on where you are and how much room you have, there are options. These four bookcases are Walmart specials, super cheap, last longer than you expect, and don't hurt so much to replace. I think we paid $30 a piece fifteen years ago. It's more, now, I'm sure.
I've also on more than one occasion made bookcases with boards and cinder blocks, the kind that are mostly holes. May or may not be cheaper these days, but they're also versatile and adaptable.
I have about twice this many (counting both book cases), but these two cases live in my study, much the same as with Lowan. I have about twice this many in other shelving elsewhere in the house. I get sad every time I think about this, though, for I used to have many, many more books. When we moved from our old house, I downsized. Got rid of a great many books. It was necessary, but still regrettable.
As for e-books, I just checked and that comes in at 570 books. I've even read most of them, though a good hundred or more are DNF.
As for e-books, I just checked and that comes in at 570 books. I've even read most of them, though a good hundred or more are DNF.
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Loving the two bottom shelves, there. I only have one set of ours out, plus the original proof copy. All the other copies are in the storage room, safe from the pair of orange otter demons I humourously call cats. Our nephew was a few months between visits when we released Beneath a Stone Sky. I'd told him I could kill a man with the paperback, but what do I know that an 18 year-old boy doesn't? So when I pulled that 640 page chonk off the shelf, the look of shock and fear on his face was worth every single character we'd typed.
I only have one set of ours out, plus the original proof copy. All the other copies are in the storage room, safe from the pair of orange otter demons I humourously call cats. Our nephew was a few months between visits when we released Beneath a Stone Sky. I'd told him I could kill a man with the paperback, but what do I know that an 18 year-old boy doesn't? So when I pulled that 640 page chonk off the shelf, the look of shock and fear on his face was worth every single character we'd typed.
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