So you think your bookcase is overcrowded

Came across this and wished I'd had this team last time I moved http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/05/15/so-you-think-your-bookcase-is-over...

That's nothing.

When Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago moved, they had a parade. With bagpipes! (The people holding books are authors with copies of their own books from the store's Front Table

>2 lilithcat: That link doesn't work unless you subscribe to the Chicago Tribune.

>3 MarthaJeanne:

Well, that sucks. Suffice it to say that having your book on the store's Front Table (literally a table at the front of the store) has been described as "The Pinnacle of Academic Achievement" (by John G. Stackhouse Jr).

A bit OT, but answering the thread's question: No! my bookcases are not overcrowded!

Not long ago I did a rather hard-hearted cull of books. For a week or so afterward I'd daily do a tour of my shelves, admire their new look, and re-acquaint myself with the patches of floor I'd not seen for several years. And now even though I've a very lax notion of tidiness I find myself straightening books on the shelves as I pass by: It's been so long a time since any of my shelves allowed books sufficient space to lean rather forcing them to stand upright that they don't at the moment look right.

Now I shall star this thread so that a few months hence I can return to it and be reminded that yes indeed, there was a time when my shelves weren't overcrowded.

I assumed that Mr Stackhouse was being sarky, but then I took a look at his site's home page and I fear that he wasn't.

My local library is moving into a new building in the next few weeks. They are recruiting volunteers to help pack and move all the books. I am laid up with a bum ankle and I am not sure if it is the best or worst time for that.

An article about running out of book space. http://www.bustle.com/articles/149576-10-things-that-happen-when-you-run-out-of-...

>7 varielle: haha! But I already have one room devoted to a library and about as many bookshelves as will fit in 3 other rooms. I still have books on the floor. What to do? Sigh.

Is this where we should post confessional photos of our book piles?

>7 varielle: There was so much truth in that photoset. Every time I buy another bookcase my problems are solved for maybe 5 minutes, max. At this point I am occasionally sleeping on a book, which I do not recommend.

>10 macsbrains: If you're able to sleep on a book you're obviously not a princess regardless of how many mattresses you've piled atop the book.

Sounds as if you don't mean simply falling asleep with your cheek resting on a book--are you so overrun w. books that you keep some of them on your bed? Doff of hat to you, if so.

Before finally splurging on a new bed, I used to put some of my less favourite hardcovers under under my mattress to prop up the sagging spots.

>12 SylviaC: That made me snort!

>11 bluepiano: The bedside piles occasionally lean over and topple onto the bed, especially because I toss and turn, so sometimes I get a hardcover in the ribs.

This would be the floor piles, mind. It's not a pile if it's not 3 or 4 feet tall.

I find they stand better behind the bedroom door. Room for several hundred books and a wall to support them.

>12 SylviaC: This morning when I was wondering to get rid of a couple of books I asked myself 'Would I be willing to use these to prop up my bed?'--no, I wouldn't. That question might well replace 'Am I ever going to read these again?' as my discard criterion.

>16 bluepiano: Glad I could help!

You could make a case for either answer..