Greetings, fellow readers. Most of us have a bookself or two (I do, actually) but sometimes we have to get a bit "creative" (note the quotation marks). Here's a lazily put together article / tour / or whatever on how I store my books.
To Be Read
This system is dead simple. Books that I'm going to read sooner are on the left. When I finish a book, the one furthest to the left* gets taken off and the rest get moved along (and another gets added to the right).
*As for why this one is turned around, its so I can look at the cover when I walk in my room rather than an asthetically displeasing barcode.
These are yet more books I have to read. I swear my pile spontaneously grows! (I.e. I went a bit mad on my holiday in Ireland... and I wanted the rest of the Harry Potter series and I've only read 5 of them so DON'T SPOIL ANYTHING!)
Book I Have Read
This is where I store most of the books I have read over the past 4 years. Books that were particually good and / or have a great cover are facing out. (I did a year long reading event where I wasn't allowed to keep the any of the books... it was still good though. Exept it's the main reason why I have such a huge TBR.)
Nethertheless, I had to get creative with how I stacked everything because I ran out of room. Series with roughly 6 books were turned on their sides, and I worked out a technique to fit 9 books in the space of 6. (Three on their side, 6 books on top.)
But I ran out of room again, hence this impressive monstrosity:
Some private stuff is blured out. Exept I don't see what's so private about a discarded mock chemestry exam... which I need to correct... dang it.
Non Fiction Books
Apart from 'Secrets of the Tudor Court', they all sit here.
Good day.
Comments (7)
We have 4 or 5 bookshelves in my home, we ran out of space so I have books in my closet, all over my dresser, on my chairs, on the table, and a few on the floor I'm ashamed to say. But we have no more space in our house to store books, and one of my local libraries has several annual book sales, and that's where a lot of them come from. It's taking over our lives lol. 🤣 :joy: :sob:
That's amazing! Your house sounds a lot like Meggie's home from Inkhart (basically there are books EVERYWHERE... in both houses).
Reply to: Thorne of Lacuna
Thanks. My whole family are book lovers so we have them all over the place. My mom really loves to read and I keep joking with her that she cursed me with book lust lol. :sweat_smile: :sweat_smile:
OML I LOVE IT :eyes: :heart_eyes: and I'm so doing the tbr shelf like that, such a good idea!!
I would like to do this but I only have one bookshelf and I have to share it XD
I feel you. Perhaps you could get/make some bookends and use a surface as a shelf. (Eg draws, desks, etc.)
Reply to: Thorne of Lacuna
Thanks for the suggestion :^)