Posts Tagged ‘books as objects’

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 [...]

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 [...]