Are there books in your home?

My bedroom looks pretty bookish but most of this is my wife’s art teaching library from before she retired (after 42 years).

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These are her frivolous shelves.

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These shelves sit at the back of my desk beside my bed.

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The top shelf.

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And this is the fun shelf of fiction I bought before giving up buying books and the ones I found laying around before the library reopened.
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Lots more books from college classes and gardening books and guide books from the past still in the attic. When you live in an old warehouse you can always squirrel things away.
 

As many of you know I live in an intentional community. In the late 70's it was formed. We have a library of about 2000 books on religion, philosophy, history, educational, psychology, metaphysics, physics, gardening, cooking, homesteading, sci-fi, various non-fiction, fun and joke books, and more. It is all boxed up right now. We converted the library to a tool room because our garage' roof is badly damaged, so we moved our essential tools to that room in our basement. For 30 years it was open to the general public. I read most all of them or scanned them. It was right around when the internet appeared that I had run out of fresh material, so I went to the public library to get about 5 books every month.
 
Paco Dennis said:
As many of you know I live in an intentional community. In the late 70's it was formed. We have a library of about 2000 books on religion, philosophy, history, educational, psychology, metaphysics, physics, gardening, cooking, homesteading, sci-fi, various non-fiction, fun and joke books, and more. It is all boxed up right now. We converted the library to a tool room because our garage' roof is badly damaged, so we moved our essential tools to that room in our basement. For 30 years it was open to the general public. I read most all of them or scanned them. It was right around when the internet appeared that I had run out of fresh material, so I went to the public library to get about 5 books every month.
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Sounds like an interesting living arrangement. Is it still happening and do you still like it? I bought a house with two friends and we rented rooms to two others back in 1979 but that only lasted a couple years. It was fun while it was fun and then it wasn’t.
 

Della said:
My son and I have about fifteen Bibles because we like different versions to compare when we're trying to sort out the meaning of a passage: Oxford Student Bible, King James, The Message, RSV, etc.
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Thanks for that, @Della! I use mostly the N.I.V. and have never heard of "The Message!" Is that New Testament only or the whole Bible?
 
MarkD said:
My bedroom looks pretty bookish but most of this is my wife’s art teaching library from before she retired (after 42 years).

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These are her frivolous shelves.

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These shelves sit at the back of my desk beside my bed.

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The top shelf.

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And this is the fun shelf of fiction I bought before giving up buying books and the ones I found laying around before the library reopened.
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Lots more books from college classes and gardening books and guide books from the past still in the attic. When you live in an old warehouse you can always squirrel things away.
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I am green with envy!
 
Paco Dennis said:
As many of you know I live in an intentional community. In the late 70's it was formed. We have a library of about 2000 books on religion, philosophy, history, educational, psychology, metaphysics, physics, gardening, cooking, homesteading, sci-fi, various non-fiction, fun and joke books, and more. It is all boxed up right now. We converted the library to a tool room because our garage' roof is badly damaged, so we moved our essential tools to that room in our basement. For 30 years it was open to the general public. I read most all of them or scanned them. It was right around when the internet appeared that I had run out of fresh material, so I went to the public library to get about 5 books every month.
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I actually had to look up "Intentional Community" since I had never heard of the term before.

B. Shenker wrote: "An intentional community is a relatively small group of people who have created a whole way of life for the attainment of a certain set of goals."

Just curious, what would be the goal of your community, @Paco Dennis?
 
Old Salt said:
I actually had to look up "Intentional Community" since I had never heard of the term before.

B. Shenker wrote: "An intentional community is a relatively small group of people who have created a whole way of life for the attainment of a certain set of goals."

Just curious, what would be the goal of your community, @Paco Dennis?
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To live simply, so that others may simply live. :)
 
MarkD said:
My bedroom looks pretty bookish but most of this is my wife’s art teaching library from before she retired (after 42 years).

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These are her frivolous shelves.

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These shelves sit at the back of my desk beside my bed.

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The top shelf.

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And this is the fun shelf of fiction I bought before giving up buying books and the ones I found laying around before the library reopened.
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Lots more books from college classes and gardening books and guide books from the past still in the attic. When you live in an old warehouse you can always squirrel things away.
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that's how my house looked pre kindle and Ipad days . I loved my books but the truth is I only read a small percentage of them more than once.. so they were all donated, including the book shelves.. and now over 20 years later, I've been thinking of getting bookshelves back again... they're just so comforting
 
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the best cosy corner in the world
 
First opened to the public in 1707, the library was constructed at the behest of Narcissus Marsh, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin at the time.

During the Easter Rising, shots were fired at the library and some of the Baltic oak shelves were damaged. These bullet holes can still be seen in several of the books, as well as in the shelves of the Old Reading Room. Today, the library is home to over 25,000 tomes, as well as 300 manuscripts. Most books date from the 16th, 17th, and 18th-centuries.
 
Books, Books, Books, but selectively. My wife is religious and doesn't care for books unless it's the Bible. But I am fascinated by the historical aspect of Christianity and read about it in books.

OK, I had the final say in buying niches for our cremation urns at the Dutch Reformed Crystal Cathedral (first picture) although my wife had, as usual, the last word when the Cathedral was bought by the Catholic Church and renamed Christ Cathedral.

I have a bunch of German books because I was grew up in Germany; just for memories sake. Then, of course, I have travel books by the dozen, books about taking care of dogs, and many books about healthy living and longevity. That's about it.

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My 2-story 2bdrm townhouse had a serious lack of space problem due to books and magazine stacks that I took care of after retiring in 2017. Almost all my books as a hardware electronic career person were non-fiction, especially technology and a range of sciences. But also natural science and outdoor leisure activities like backpacking, skiing, photography, fishing.

Still have lots of books and some will always be useful like wildflower guide books and regional guides for parks and scenic areas.
 
Raddragn said:
I have three floor to ceiling bookcases in my living room that take up one whole wall and another similar in size in one of the bedrooms plus a couple of small ones in the garage. There are also 2 sets of shelves on both sides of the TV that are filled with a variety of books. All cases are filled with a variety of types and subjects - history, scifi, fantasy, my various other interests over the years (sewing, various needlework, music, gardening and martial arts. LOL the cookbooks are in drawers in the kitchen. I've been a lover of books - since I was the proverbial knee high to a grasshopper whipper snapper.
Now I also have a Kiindle and an I-Pod. I also belong to "Audible" and "Chirp". All have a large library of books.
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I love Audibles. I tend to get history books mainly to listen to. I like the feeling of learning useful facts while I do boring housework.
 
Della said:
When I was in second grade the teacher mentioned that I had read 100 books that year. I thought I was in trouble because, at home my parents would complain that I read too much. I continued to read about a hundred books a year all my life, but the large majority were from the library. Going to the library has always been part of my weekly chores, usually right after going to the grocery store. Now I belong to the library book club and we meet once a month after we've all read the same book.

I do have one room with a wall lined with bookshelves. It was full of a few hundred "special" books I couldn't part with. Until one day when I realized most were in small print and these days I have to have large so I gave most of them away, except for about fifty books that stuck to my hand so that I couldn't let them go.

My son and I have about fifteen Bibles because we like different versions to compare when we're trying to sort out the meaning of a passage: Oxford Student Bible, King James, The Message, RSV, etc.
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I have several Bibles too, including 3 on Kindle. I also have two Children's Bibles because they bring back good memories of my childhood, due to the illustrations. I like finding different Bibles in charity shops, especially if they have beautiful illustrations. It's amazing what people get rid of that becomes a treasure to someone else.
 
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I am green with envy!
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If you were here you wouldn’t be this old building is and will always be a sow’s ear. All my creative juices go into the garden and all of Lia’s into her studio. We’re frozen in time at stage before people decide to make a home. But we’re happy enough, in a sense we’re all just passing through.
 
We have an antique lawyer's bookcase in the living room, a bookcase in the bedroom,
and a small library of my author friend's books in an enclosed closet. All books from the
other two big bookcases were donated to the library pre-Covid, as were the bookcases.
There isn't enough room in the condo. We borrow physical and e-books from the library. I read a book over two days.
 
Quite a few years back now, we lost our local WHSmith. So, it was either a trip to next store available or find it on Amazon.

Thankfully, yesterday found a new book store at our shopping centre. It's called "The Works". Found a lovely tarot deck. Daughter found a Marvel Heroes colouring book and a "Beginner's Crochet" book.

We've a plan to create an octagon patchwork king-size blanket for our bed. A lovely winter project. I've been crocheting for years but hopeless on knitting.

Daughter's great at knitting, however, she's problems with crochet. It'll be fun and entertaining goals to reach 😆

The Works | Get Huge Savings On Arts, Crafts And Books
 
Hundreds of books. In process of getting rid of at least half. It is mentally torturous for me to throw out books, even if I hadn't "needed" them in decades. When I throw them out, one of our maintenance guys offers them to our local street bookseller first before dumping them. Currently, it's easiest to throw out college textbooks. It's fun to see I paid $1.85!!!!!!! for hard cover books with hundreds of pages. I really get a kick out of that! So far have only done one bookcase with 3 shelves. Then I must dust the shelves & books I'm keeping.

Some books I can't throw out. Like 'Sexual Politics' by Kate Millet I think her name was. Felt too groundbreaking to throw out.........not that anyone I leave behind will see it that way..........
 

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