Posts Tagged ‘book collections’

Bookshelf Porn

Bookshelf Porn

Can’t get enough of beautiful bookshelves, stunning stacks of stories, juicy journals? Turn to the internet for your fix.
Breathing Books posts amazing book-related photos every day, many featuring old leather-bound hardbacks:
And the Guardian has recently started a Flickr group for bookshelf photos, asking readers for the stories behind their books and cataloguing [...]

Books We Can't Part With

Books We Can’t Part With

When I moved from Ann Arbor to Boston, movers came to pack our things. After the thirteenth box of books–literally–Mover #1 actually set down his tape gun and said in complete seriousness, “Do you really need all these books?”
Oh yes. I needed them.
The New York Times, however, understands that now and then one [...]

Furnishings of a literary life

Furnishings of a literary life

How often do we think about our books as physical objects, part of the essential furniture of our homes?

The Elegant Variation has a lovely little post about the joy of setting up one’s library again after a move:
So now the arduous task of refilling the books begins. First, we need to douse the whole collection [...]