Post pics of your bookshelf?NO!--->Warning! Abandon hope all ye who enter! WARNING!! READ INSIDE!!!

[Shoe Horn]

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The picture of a winter solstice green man I naively got off of Google Images, (as of this posting, it is STILL there, on Google Images...just search 'Winter Solstice'...thar she blows! The culprit!) had some kind of virus, malware in it!

Earlier today I began to get a red warning page from my updated Norton Google God knows what. I got a big ol' red page telling me to back off...that there may be malware from surfervist.com or something. I went to the meta-forum and inquired what could be causing this, as it'd been going on a few times by then and yet, never gave me any problems before.

Read the rest here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/124017021

Basically, if you have visited this page before...you should take PeaceNikki's advice:

PeaceNikki:
"A virus scan will NOT clear up the BHO/redirect it installed.

It installed "searchqu". If you want to help people, direct them here: http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-remove-searchqu-uninstall-guide.html"




I am really sorry and didn't mean to bring something like that to this community.
You should take Nikki's advice and see if you have that search engine 'thing' (BHO/redirect).
Sorry for any inconvenience. I feel like a heel. Beware google images and images from other sites.

Sorry.


And to think, it all started so innocently...

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Please, post everything you got! I'm begging you. Do it for DU's collective intelligence.
Can't wait to see what gems you snazzy people have lurking in your stacks.
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Here's most of my once mighty (...now pretty small) 'library':

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That's it! That's my main shelf... the one by the bed where I do all my reading. All 15 minutes of it before I fall asleep! lol... sigh. I used to read so much. Anyhoo...pretty paltry ...some I haven't finished...some are on loan from the library...some I bought from the library bookstore...just a quick snapshot.... I'm going for 'quality over quantity'...some I wouldn't part with for $1,000.

I move a lot, or used to, want to again, so it's a concentrated collection.

Enough chit chat.
Please post some pics!

I'd love to see what you fine people have on your shelves.


Peace.



EDIT:
So anyways, it's online so be careful what ya post, esp if you're using a cellcam.
Make sure the GPS is off if you care about that kinda stuff. People may have to DL your pic and enlarge to see what titles you got!

That's kinda where I was going with this:
Like a 'Futher Reading' or Bibliography for the DU community, except in pics.
A way for people to share the titles of their library without having to list each and every book.
Whateverz! Maybe I'm being paranoid? Just be safe you guys.

Enjoy posting whatever you all feel like sharing. 'It's all good'...

Peace! Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas people!
Love! Have a good one! Unity! Joy! Mazel tov! Etc.

No more green man of winter.

I hope ya rot, whoever was behind inserting malware
into such a harmless, wonderful image. =[ Booo!

[REP]

1. Some of mine

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[Shoe Horn]

5. LOL, you're funny!

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I could totally live in a place like that.

[REP]

31. Me too!

[Luciferous]

39. I would love to have a library like that!

[pintobean]

2. Ok

Someone was going to do this, it may as well be me.



I don't actually have one of these, but my wife will tonight.

[ohheckyeah]

18. Thanks...

you save me the trouble.

[tooeyeten]

74. Fear of owning Kindle

I'll never buy another book.

[pintobean]

77. My daughter shared that fear.

She's early 20s and we got her a tablet for Christmas. The first thing she did was go to the e-reader app. She was very excited about what was available for free. I think it will be a supplement, rather than a replacement, for her books.

[Shoe Horn]

106. You can't pass a Kindle along to your friends when you're done reading a book on it.

That alone is reason enough for me to spend my money on something more useful.
Fuck the Copyright Mafia.

Also:
1) Having your reading habits used as 'market research' without your permission.
2) Having books you bought erased without warning.
3) One word: batteries.
4) Planned obsolescence. You'll need a new one in 5 years.
5) Drop it in the tub? Oops! There goes your entire library!
6) One more troublesome gadget to mess with and pay for repairs.
7) Not being in control of your own material after purchase.
8) Would make for a very boring 'Pictures of your Bookcase' thread.

Any one of those is enough for me, I just see no use for it.

Not to say they don't have some use. If you're bedridden and arthritic and cannot hold a book.
Which case, you'd seem to have more pressing concerns than reading Moby Dick one last time.

If you have a million reference books that you need at-a-glance.

Etc.

So funny to me that people see this as an either/or internet battle.
And feel so threatened and angry that someone would choose to read a book in a way different than them. 'Grow up'. Right? Unless they're getting paychecks from Amazon or Apple, why even bother getting excited about it?

It's amusing to me.

I think the same thing when I see a Kindle Thread and someone
sounding off about the wholesomeness of paperbacks. Like, wgaf?
Let 'em enjoy their gd shiny techno-trinkets.

I'll probably end up buying one eventually, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be a prick about it and do free advertising, trying to hijack threads over it.

[tooeyeten]

110. thank you

You made my day a little brighter! Happy New Year.

[WCGreen]

3. I would indeed endeavor to share....

If only my books were not boxed up as we are in the middle of a 5-year plan to reinvigorate the sad shape of our home...

[ellisonz]

4. A snapshot...

Of my college days.

[HopeHoops]

6. The ones with books or the ones with everything BUT books?

And then there are the dozen or so boxes of books...

My wife's probably got 20,000 childrens' books or more. That's not a joke. She has a Masters in Elem. Ed. and a B.S. in Elem.Ed/Early Childhood. She's been collecting them for a LOOOONNNGG time.

On Edit: "Leary On Drugs" is redundant.

[Shoe Horn]

7. Yep, Timothy Leary is one of my favorite authors.

Really breaks down the Western Hypocrisy in regards to Drug Policy and Prison Stupidity.

If you didn't know anything about him, and most who comment don't...it's fair to say you remember him as 'Mr. Acid' or whatever. Which is sad. He had so many interesting ideas. Space exploration, etc etc.

Of course, he also did groundbreaking work on psychological assessments and the social dimensions of personality. (When he was working at Harvard?) That was how he broke out of prison, remember: The fools used the same psychological assessment that he created when they decided what level of security and what work detail he should get. Priceless lolz.

I love all that counter cultural history stuff, though.
Paul Krassner, Kerouac, Ginsberg, R.U. Siris, Etc.

I have kids now so, it's just vicarious kicks for me.

Anyways, when my little kittens grow up, there'll be no hiding from ol' Dad!
I tried every one of those things and know all the lies and cover stories!

(Alcohol is still the most dangerous, btw. And legal. People are soo stupid.)

Okay!
Ho!Ho!Ho! Have a good one, Mr. Eagle Eyes!
Maybe, you can post your books if you get the.. chance.
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[HopeHoops]

8. Well, for your health maybe - but alcohol is completely purged eventually.

LSD is retained in fat cells. One never knows when it will kick in and make life "groovy" without warning. Opioid-based drugs also are retained in fat cells, but at least they have a half-life (a term that freaks me out when talking about radioactive substances such as MRI tracer fluids).

I'd love to post my book shelves, but it would take a dozen or so posts to avoid "waiting to load" problems. I think I can get rid of some of them now - like my VT-420 reference manual. It just seems that every time I get rid of something I have a need for it within a week.

The "return for cash" window at the college book store was a gold mine. If the book wasn't on the "buy back" list, people would usually just chuck them in the giant trash box next to the window. I was digging out some really good text books when some guy turned in his books for cash and said, "Hey, that's a keg for tomorrow night's party". So sad. I got more books from that box than I did for my classes, and on all kinds of subjects for which I didn't take classes.

And the sad thing about all of this is that I've given up on the traditional press. I finally published my first book on Kindle.

I've got a series I'm publishing under a pen name on Kindle as well. Book stores just seem to be full of crap by right-wing morons now. the computer section is dismal. I used to love going to book stores, but the only one left is Barnes & Nobel and it is more toys, video games, DVDs/BlueRay, and CDs now than books.

[Shoe Horn]

9. Kinda hard to worry about your mental health if you're dead. [nt]

[HopeHoops]

21. Minor detail.

[OriginalGeek]

14. I don't think I am any kind of heroic subversive but...

...Book stores just seem to be full of crap by right-wing morons now...

...whenever I'm in Costco or some other store that just leaves their books out in big piles for the customers to rummage through, I quietly stroll by and hide all those books. Turn them over, move them to the bottom of stacks, stick them behind other books. Move them to a fiction section if there is one...


It may not change much in the grand scheme of things but gosh it makes me feel good.

[HopeHoops]

22. I do that too - mostly turn them face down or insert them in the shelf backwards.

(spine in)

[PassingFair]

42. "Re-shelving"

[HopeHoops]

43. No, "corrective shelving".

[Shoe Horn]

44. +1,000,000

[BiggJawn]

19. I've been waiting 40 years for a "flashback"

Never had one. Pity. That "trip" was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and no, it's NOT a "Youthful Indiscretion" that I "regret".

One of the reasons I'll never run for public office.

Tried to get all my bookshelves in one shot, but I can't back up that far...

[HopeHoops]

23. Hell, mine aren't even all in the same room. We've got books EVERYWHERE.

I'd love to say I've read them all, but I've got a backlist of a mere 1,000 or so.

[BiggJawn]

27. So you have "stacks", too?

We all know what a library calls "The Stacks", but around here, they're actual "stacks". and "piles".

Now I have one a them infernal electronic doo-dads, too.

[Shoe Horn]

60. I'd love to see a few well aimed close ups of the titles you got.

Not necessarily 'how you have you books arranged',
but more of a--> 'at-a-glance-perusal-of-yer-stuff'.

I dunno, I go to the bookstore and just browse for hours before picking a book.
Not sure if that drives the book people batty or not. Drives my wife crazy, though.

Anyways, I don't regret 'tripping' either. Funny that alcohol, which just slaughters brain cells, gives you energy and makes you think you're invincible (while operating at severely diminished intellectual capacity) is 100% legal. Yet, these other things are Schedule A or whatever, highly illegal.

On the one hand, they're powerful mind altering substances, perhaps meant to be underground and not let loose on the 'commoners', the great unwashed minions, the multitude, plebeians, the plebs, rank and file, riff-raff, the common people, the herd, the many, the proletariat, the proles, the peons. Etc. Then again...maybe that's exactly who needs it?

Hmm...an old argument. Still unsettled.
What impact did legal LSD, and it's widespread use via Leary etc, have on the 60's cultural revolution? And it's blowback...?



At any rate, we live in pretty backwards times, and if I say anything to my kids, it'll be that 4-5 years in prison isn't worth the experience, to me. There certainly are risks aplenty with that 'dark path'.

Anyways, post something would ya,
I'm curious what you got in yr stacks.
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Hopefully, something where we can actually see the titles.

[BiggJawn]

84. Welllllll...

I'll give you an idea what's in there...
A whole shelf of Carl Sagan.

Extensive Ham Radio collection going back to the late 20's.

About 250 cookbooks, including a 3" thick one titled "Army Recipes"

"Antennas" by Kraus

An good collection of maritime titles including a 1200-page volume titled: "Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-Second Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 283, Directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate the Causes Leading to the Wreck of the White Star Liner 'Titanic'.”

Almost all of the "Foxfire" books and all of "The Compleat Walker" series.

[Shoe Horn]

93. Sounds interesting.

Personally, I always liked Shit on a Shingle.
Delicious stuff really, when we'd swing by the VFW on Sundays.

And I'm tempted, really tempted, to get a book on Antennas just for the hell of it.
Even though it'd be foreign to me (or maybe because...)

Sounds like an interesting collection of thought and information.
Carl Sagan is a personal favorite. And I love hiking and walking.

Thanks BiggJawn.

[Shoe Horn]

10. Let me rephrase here: Post a picture of a whole buncha your books? Where I can see the spine?

How's that?

I mean, it'd be funny, no doubt, but who wants to see a thread of pictures like this:
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That'd be a different thread altogether.
Like DIY shelving. lol.

[Enrique]

11. mine is shared

[tooeyeten]

26. lol -Beautiful! n/t

[trackfan]

12. Here's one of mine:

[Shoe Horn]

30. What...is that? That's a massive series of...something.

I'm intrigued.

[trackfan]

32. The red and brighter green ones are from the Loeb Classical Library;

the blue ones are from the I Tatti Renaissance Library; the paler green are Oxford Classical Texts.

[Shoe Horn]

45. Of course, that only one I'm really familiar with, from all that wide range....

...of philosophic antiquity, genius, and history (and poetry and everything else) is Catallus.

Go figure.

[trackfan]

51. There he is...11th from the right on the top shelf!

Good stuff.

[Shoe Horn]

94. I agree.

First heard of him through 'Mordred's Curse'. A decent retelling of the Arthurian legend.
(But, the Catullus quote is probably what I remember most fondly from that book.)

Do you know of others... similar to Catullus?
Thanks.

[trackfan]

108. Horace comes to mind as a successor in lyric poetry,

but his poems are more obscure, maybe more refined, and maybe not as immediately compelling. Tibullus covers similar territory as far as love poetry, as does Ovid with great wit and artistry, but lacking depth. For a rival in short, witty, and sometimes obscene epigrams, you have to go a different era, about 150 years ahead, to Martial.

[Shoe Horn]

109. Haha, thanks for the inside scoop! btw, you read the title to this thread, right?

I had a bit of a problem earlier to day.
Really kinda hairy.

Read the first post, if you haven't already.
Sorry.





Thanks for the new information on these Greek poets.
I really appreciate it.

[Mira]

13. Little did I know when I took this photo last night

that you would ask about it today. Feel free to zoom in for titles.

[Odin2005]

15. I don't have a camera, unfortinately.

But I have the exact same biology textbook!

[MilesColtrane]

17. OK, I'll play.

Nonfiction







Fiction





Subject: Music



This doesn't include the two bookcases in the main room with all my music, scores, etc.

I feel sorry for whoever has to clean this mess up after I bite the big one.

[Shoe Horn]

29. Oh, wow.

Man, I wish you'd do some closer views! You have a nice little collection there.
From what I could see. So cool.

I've owned and sold/lost so many books.
Always wanted to re-buy another copy of R.D. Laing's 'Knots', though.
I miss that one. It has 'a history' as well, that many people don't know.

And (Oh. My. God.) is that 'Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television'?
LOL, I haven't seen that in YEARS! I bought a copy while on a family vacation through Alabama, many...many years ago. Like 20? Changed my teenaged life. Really. I didn't own a tv for about ten years after that...which is a good thing. Of course, I don't even remember the details now.
God, I'd love to browse through that again.

Life 101! hee hee, so many good quotes in that book.
I think I have that Sexton Biography. What a nutty character.
Love her 'fairy tale' poems though.

So many new names and faces there.
Looking Glass Universe?
Engines of Creation?
Budd Schulberg?
Philip Roth?
Julian Jaynes...I think I'd heard of bicameral consciousness.
Isn't it the idea that people used to 'talk to God' through their brain lobes being less connected through the corpus whateverhtheheckitscalled? And that, what we consider to be, consciousness evolved with the connection of these two lobes?

Interesting stuff.^^

I'm getting that. At the least, I'm checking a few of these out from the library and test driving them before purchase. 'Facing Evil'? ...man, that sounds so interesting.

'The Emmitt Zone'? what tha..? heeheehee, funny.
I have a few of those also.

Hey man, thanks for sharing I really appreciate it.
Wish I could read more of the titles, or had better eyesight,
but what the heck, thanks for putting up your collection for us to browse!

I have a long list of books to buy or re-buy, you've reminded me of a few and also introduced me to some future avenues to explore. Thanks a lot.

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[MilesColtrane]

36. Always wanted to re-buy another copy of R.D. Laing's 'Knots', though.

I miss that one. It has 'a history' as well, that many people don't know.

I found out about Laing after hearing an English band named Gentle Giant. They had a song called "Knots", its lyric derived straight out of Laing's book.


I think I have that Sexton Biography. What a nutty character.
Love her 'fairy tale' poems though.

Another author I came to through music. Started reading her poetry after hearing the Peter Gabriel song Mercy Street.

Looking Glass Universe?

Overview of the ideas of David Bohm, Ilya Prigogine, Rupert Sheldrake, and Karl Pribram

Engines of Creation?

K. Eric Drexler's seminal work on nanotechnology and what it portends.
He has been gracious enough to post it online for all to read.

http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html


Budd Schulberg?

"What Makes Sammy Run?" Before there was uber-agent Ari Gold in Entourage, there was Sammy Glick.

Philip Roth?

"The Plot Against America"...radical Republican Senators convince Charles Lindbergh to run against FDR in 1940. He wins the presidency and hilarity does not ensue.

Julian Jaynes...I think I'd heard of bicameral consciousness.
Isn't it the idea that people used to 'talk to God' through their brain lobes being less connected through the corpus whateverhtheheckitscalled? And that, what we consider to be, consciousness evolved with the connection of these two lobes?

You've got it, exactly.

Thanks for the interesting thread.

[47of74]

20. Closest thing to mine I have right now

We're doing a lot of moving around because we're going to rebuild the entire second floor in our house starting after the New Year. So this is the closest thing I have to a book shelf right now. And it'll probably be going away too in another week or so with the contents of that shelf going into storage.

[HopeHoops]

24. I don't keep my NT MCSI books on the shelf anymore.

That's mostly because I don't have an NT box anymore and Vista/Win7 I've pretty much figured out (or can find answers online). Networking and sharing is STILL a pain in the ass sometimes. I can always get it to work, but it can take some poking around. Besides, I got my MCSE+I credentials over ten years ago. It would be a total lie to say I remember all of it. Use it or lose it and have to relearn it.

I like the coffee mug! And no computer geek bookshelf would be complete without random CDs and cables in front of the books.

[tooeyeten]

25. I covet your Roget's hardcover n/t

[Shoe Horn]

53. The local library book store has reference books by the pound...

...I'm exaggerating but not much. That 'Concise' Encyclopedia of Sceience and Technology was a buck, I think.

I have a big ol' HUGE Dictionary (finally!)...$1 as well. If you have a local Library, check in with them, they usually get rid of their reference books yearly. I live in Austin and there's intense, 'elbows out', competition for these books, what some cities do for X-mas day sneakers, we do for used library books, apparently.

In that aspect, San Antonio was better, I think. Giant city, Giant, awesome Central Library.
Absolute ghost town in the book store. It was like my personal treasure house.
So were sections of the library come to think of it.

Too bad I was young and footloose an sold almost all the books that passed through my hands.
I'd be a rich man today or, at the very least, be rich in books and have a truly magnificent collection. (moo hoo hahaha, greedy greedy greedy) Ah, I guess I'm happy with the memories of travelling instead...

Heh.

Anyways, I like thesauruses, too.


Peace.
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Pic by dindolina
Linda Vignato

[tooeyeten]

73. I swiped

my sibling's Roget's paperback from college, it's in three pieces however it's the most valuable book in my collection. Local library great idea, have a friend that works there too!

[Shoe Horn]

76. ...local library has served me very well over the years.

Also, I have a old, old copy of Ron Cobb's cartoons....just in shreds.

In shreds.

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Wouldn't sell it for all the money in the world though.
It was my dad's and we don't even speak anymore.

Something about torn books, just reminds me of the fragile nature of information or something.
It's like a step towards carrying a scroll or fragments of some lost writings.

'The Dead Sea Thesaurus'...or something.
I love it.

[Courtesy Flush]

28. Here's mine

Many of my books are still in boxes upstairs. Need to bring them down. I built this bookcase myself (still needs glass doors).

Wish I could say I've read all these books. I have the attention span of a gnat after all these years of web browsing.

[Shoe Horn]

78. Hey, cool collection.

Wish I could focus my efforts more...seems like you have Italian, Chess and Boats covered pretty thoroughly. Which is awesome. I'd like to trim the fat on my stuff and get deeper into Biology, Diet/Health, & Exercise.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. I have this:

It's called a Little Free Library. It's in my front yard right next to the sidewalk. People can take books from it and put books in it - since I put it up in October and stocked it with some books I didn't plan to keep, there has been almost a complete turnover of books - I've been surprised at how many people have been stopping and looking in it and swapping books. Just this afternoon when I was out filling bird feeders a teenage boy called out to me and asked about the library, and I told him the books were free, just take a book, read it and return it (or not), or swap it for another one. He siad, "Really? Cool, I'll go get a book for it!"

The Little Free Libraries are a community literacy initiative, started by a guy in Hudson, WI, then it spread to Madison. It's been taking off around here, too. More here: http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/

[They_Live]

35. I really like that idea!

Those should be everywhere.

[blaze]

37. What a great idea!!!

Hmmmm....

[Shoe Horn]

104. Reminds me of a R.Brautigan book...

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[av8rdave]

105. What a great idea!

Would love to see more of those around.

[They_Live]

34. a few here...

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Here's some...but not all. I love books.

[Shoe Horn]

52. Just got about 5 dozen ideas from those 4 pictures.

I need to get some Burroughs, Maybe 'Ham on Rye' by Buk, hmm, or maybe something more representative of his 'total output'. Lustmord looks interesting, in a morbid curiosity kinda way.
Chasing the Dragon, Odes to Hafiz, Wreckers of Civilisation (!!!), etc.

Too many to name and I'm still 'investigating' some unknowns.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle? Wow. Sounds good.

Very cool.

Hey, I'll kick myself later if I don't ask this.
I owned this book, about 15 years ago, and haven't been able to remember the title or find out anything about it since. Maybe you could help? It's kinda in the realm of RE/Search, Industrial Culture, Boyd Rice, Tiki, Space Pop, type stuff. It's a coffee table book, wide, lots of pics, no more than an inch thick prolly. Maybe 200 pages.

And the defining thing of this otherwise forgettable (apparently) book was that it sort of divided up the new alternative-pop culture, at the time (late 90s) into darker, negative stuff and light, weird, poppy stuff. Like the main point of the book was an exploration of the weird, poppy, DIY, music/art/movies/etc of the time.

Like, they compared and contrasted NIN to TMBG.
That sort of thing. But, it had loads and loads of examples of weirdo, sorta DIY, intelligent, funky, subversive ...but emotionally positive culture.

I've never seen anything like it. Before or since.

Anyways, it's a shot in the dark, I know, but if you've heard of that book please let me know.
I've been looking for it for it about 15 years now...seems like something that maybe....
maybe you've heard of.


Anyways, nice collection.
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Which is always appreciated.

[WinkyDink]

38. Two former English teachers here. Book on shelves and books on floors all the freak over!

[Shoe Horn]

95. Can't wait, this has been a goldmine for me.[nt]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. Here's mine...First the ones on my computer table, and then the big ones...

I love my study!

[progressoid]

47. Sooo...

What are those DU binders? DU? As in DU?

Cool study by the way.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

48. My dear progressoid...

Yeah, those are DU as in DemocraticUnderground ...

I've got old PM's, assorted threads, misc. stuff from all the years I've been here...

I wondered if anyone would ask...

I LOVE my study! It's all mine, permission to enter by me...I could *almost* live in here.

[blueamy66]

66. Beautiful!

I'm next....be right back!

[BlueMTexpat]

87. Your study looks a lot like mine ...

do I detect IKEA "Billy?"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

88. You mean on my desk? Nope...

The big ones are built-in...not Ikea.

The ones on my desk were made by my husband, years ago!

He wasn't using them, so when I asked if I could have them, he said sure...

They are really handy!

[PassingFair]

41. My "nook".

My husband is not allowed to put stuff here.
He does any way, when I am not looking...

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[Shoe Horn]

98. Very nice, what are those?

I love a good, solid, compact... lifetime's worth of information.

[PassingFair]

107. The tan ones are the 1911 Handy Volume Encyclopedia Brittanica 11th edition, and the red ones are...

a complete set of Dickens.

Also prominent is my "shrine" to Abe Lincoln, my melancholy baby.

[Historic NY]

46. I've got too many.....but I'll play my organized mess.

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Mostly history or genealogical subjects. I do collect diaries & journals of the 18th century.
I have about 500 or so at another office thats are borrowed by various history writers or resarchers. I haven't read all of them cover to cover but I've been through each and every one of them many times.

[Shoe Horn]

56. An immense and yet specific library.

You probably did some DEEP drilling into the bedrock of this subject, huh?
You're curating skills seem to have paid off. Very nice work.


'The radicalism of the american revolution.'
...I'm having that.

[Shoe Horn]

96. Good stuff.

And ya gotta love the titles of those 19th century books.

I had a few anthologies, nothing nearly as interesting as your paper over wood covered book there, of first hand accounts of explorers and settlers, opening up the West. Funny how first hand accounts differ so widely from our sanitized historical retelling of events and circumstances. The simple and clean accounts of what everyday people when through. That is, when our modern histories ever step away from the Great Men and focus on the commoners.

[blueamy66]

67. LOVE

beautiful....screw Kindle....I love the smell and look of real books!!!

[Historic NY]

86. Yes they do have smell .....

I was transcribing some old town records from 1747-1792 and I could actually detect the smell of old burnt lamp oil or tallow it had embedded itself in the old pages. It made me invision the old clerk sitting there scribing his notes. Most of those old pages hadn't been touch in 200 yrs.

[blueamy66]

101. that's what I'm talking about

perfect

[Shoe Horn]

97. Some new books smell like poo poo though.

Ever smell one of those?
Must be the ink or glue.

I put incense sticks in my books (away from the spine so not to damage it)
when I buy one of these 'stinkers'.


I agree though, I just don't see the advantage of a planned to be obsolescent Kindle. (etc)
Why rent something good when you can own it for a lifetime? And who needs 1,000,000 books?
Quality > Quantity.

If I buy a book in hardcover...my great, great, great grandkids will be able to read it.

One choice tumble off a high table, and that 1,000,000 book holding Kindle
will just be an expensive paperweight.

Though, I do feel bad about the trees. So, we need hemp for books.
Or something else.

[blueamy66]

102. I cannot say that I have ever smelled that....

go on buying books for those great, great, greats.....

[Shoe Horn]

103. First noticed it when I was a kid.

And I buy books for myself. If they're good, I keep them for the great, great, greats....

[Xicano]

49. Well, what can I say?

Most of my books are in electronic form, but, I have these.

[Shoe Horn]

57. Awesome. Love your taste in subjects.

'Witchcraft in the South' is something I'd be interested in.
Your Astral Projection Section seems pretty cool. Time Out always has spot on advice.
A pertinent resource. I see ya got the original and newer edition of P:MMGG. Very cool.
'Gods and Symbols of Ancient Maya'. Wow. Just bucketfuls of awesomeness there.



Say, I need to get a copy of Popol Vuh, how's that translation ya got there?
Read many others? Is that your favorite? Is it academic or loose, wild and wooly?
I haven't even started to explore that particular manuscript, or 'corpus' yet, so...

Any advice is a good foot in the door for me.

Thanks.

[Xicano]

81. Thanks Shoe Horn

That copy of the Popol Vuh is one of the better ones I've looked at. Basically when I was choosing which copy to buy it came down to either this one or one other which I forget the author's name now since its been so long. The translation seems fine. As for advice I might have for someone who's interested in getting their foot in the door on the Popol Vuh? There's a cartoon version on youtube which I think does a really good job at telling the story. The book has more events which happen to the hero-twins while on their way to Xibalba (the underworld) to fight and defeat the lords of Xibalba. But this cartoon does do a good job nonetheless.

As for the astral projection books. I think Robert Bruce does the best job writing about the subject. And IMO the best book on astral projection is the book Astral Dynamics. The link is an online pdf copy.


Peace,
Xicano




The Popol Vuh:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

[Edweird]

50. No pics. It's 4 stacks of milk crates 8 feet high in a storage unit.

700 miles away.

[Shoe Horn]

58. :-(

It's good to take a break sometimes, too.

After all, books just separate us from our immediate reality.






Truth!

[Neoma]

54. Okay, but remember...you asked for it! (37 Pictures)

I moved the chairs and end tables to take pictures. Got out my professional camera and went through photoshop to re-size the photos and all!

And here's close ups!

[Shoe Horn]

55. An eclectic collection. All over the place, really. Great stuff.

That's what I'm talkin' bout!
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Your photos have been saved and cataloged, my friend!
I'll be mining your library for 'suggestions' for years... most likely.
And I'm sure I'm not the only one. Thank you for your service!


What's that one, two books over (L) from the yellow chess book (third photo from bottom)?
I got my magnifying glass out and everything...still can't see it.

Just amazing though, a life's work. Prolly have a couple hundred books right there, eh? Maybe a thousand? If the 'lights go out', Mr Bemis... let's hope you're spared the big obvious plot twist, though. lol.

Just kiddin'.

Man, maybe when I feel I'm in a state and city I really enjoy,
that I'd feel comfortable dying in, I'll start collecting in earnest again.
That collection there, is something you can pass on to your kids, if you have any.
Or Godkids or whatever.

Just a few that stand out to me:

On The Beach ~ Wow didn't know, or had forgotten, that was a novel.

People's History US a classic, of course. Should be required reading for these boards, imho.


Geography of the States and Regions (have you read anything by Harm J. de Blij? I like 'The Geography Book' by him, kinda basic but fun.)

Pretty much everything in pictures 3,4,5,6,9,11,12,etc...
I'll be looking at these pictures you posted...for years! heehee.
Not to sound creepy or anything.
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A History Of The World In Six Glasses ~ there's this really interesting type of book lately.Take some 'simple concept', and branch out from there into a multi-layered exploration, through history, chemistry, economy, science, sociology, etc. of the world. I love that. Entertaining and educational.History of Air, Ghost Map, that type of thing. I think I may like the Glasses book as well.

Sheesh, I'm realizing... I could write a book about everything you have on your shelves!

The Little Book of Mathematical Prnciiples, Theories, & Things...I'm gettin' that.

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, maybe over my head but worth checking out from the local library and exploring...then purchasing, as is my custom.

Kindly Inquisitors! <---That looks awesome.

Again--->Wow.

See, to me, this is what the internet is all about.
Sharing specific, human filtered, information and media recommendations.
News stories, etc. Sometimes it's too much static, but when you get the inside scoop,
the inside track, from a good source, it's gold.

And to think, I was really 'down' on the effect the internet has on modern culture.

Hmm...I guess it's still a double edged sword.

Whew, well... excuse my awkward enthusiasm... and loooong-windedness.
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Carry on, good people. Carry on.

[Neoma]

59. A life's work?

It's really just a combination of me and my husband's collections. I'm only 22! Well..he's 42, but most of those books are mine really... It'd probably take me about 20 years to read all of them...not that I want to read every single one. There's some I'll ignore, like the motorcycle's handbook and so on. (I don't even own a motorcycle!)

There's about 1,000 books. Last time I counted it was 900, but that was ages ago. Honestly though, I've been keeping track of what I've read since I was 16. (I can message you the list if you want.) Most of them I don't have anymore, so I've more or less gave away an entire collection and gained an entirely new one from ages 16 to 19. Plus, I live only half a block from our public library, so I'm guilty of skipping there for other gems. (Imagine the amount of books I've lent out over the years...)

I also have 4 more books coming in the mail from my mom. The book on FDR, 7 books from the left, from the second picture...is a five book series! Supposedly the top biography on the man, according to mom. I'm getting them because I complained that I didn't have any FDR books... and so I got 7 (including the 4 that's coming) for Christmas.

You're either talking about 1,000 places to see before you die, or Wonders of the human body. (Probably pretty inaccurate by now...) But passing the collection on is a good question... Because both my mom and mother-in-law have enormous collections a well. Can't imagine what it'd look like when and if I inherit those!

Ps. My camera had all the pictures blown up to 54 by 36 inches if you want blown up pictures of some, I can try to find a website that would upload a 4 MB pictures...or I can resize them by a little to make it fit on imageshack.us... Or I can just tell you what the bleep the book is.

[Shoe Horn]

70. My sincere apologies, madame.

I'm prone to hyperbole. Esp with my first cup of coffee.
I meant no harm. All in good fun.

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Anyways, thanks for posting.


On a side note, personally, I wouldn't keep a buncha books I didn't plan on reading.
Just amassing a huge collection for the sake of it seems like a terrible burden...or vanity.
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Or both.


Doo-Bee-Doo.
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About asking the tiles of specific books:

The point here, I think, is that no one will have to ask anyone else about the three dozen book titles... that they may or may not even be interested in. Like, I guess, ask about a specific book based on the color of the jacket or thickness of the spine? Right? What's the point? "Tell me the name of that one with the squiggly title and orange cover, please! I love orange covered books!" Hahaheehee. That'd be silly.

And getting the names of the other dozen, sheesh what a involved process.

Whereas, if there's some good, clean photos of 3 dozen books, we can just browse the spines quickly... as if we were all up in your area, virtually shlupping around your personal space, and asking questions or getting suggestions about your personal library...y'know.....................
...from a safe distance........................through the wonders of the modern internet machine.
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About 'turn over' and inheritance:

Yeah, most long term collectors have given away more than they currently have.
If I had all the Cds, Books and DVDs I've ever owned, I'd need to get another house to hold 'em. And my wife would probably feel like a rat in hell.
http://books.google.com/books?id=P0CSxB2aHMcC&pg=PT215&lpg=PT215&dq=obsessive+collection+%22a+rat+in+hell%22&source=bl&ots=UnFr9Bj8dO&sig=g1xa5f8StuyYy5gFKMupk0j_Vx0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=anH4TvXRG6OC2AXH89yQAg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=obsessive%20collection%20%22a%20rat%20in%20hell%22&f=false

'Curating' is a skill. A learned skill. Library Science. 'We must be the ruthless censors of ourselves.' ...and our collections. There's simply too much information for one lifetime. 'Stuff' becons from every window front. Maintaining the plot is a valuable skill. For instance, I'd like to know about FDR also, but I would never read a 7 volume set. That's too in depth and useless for my personal needs. But, it's cool your ma cares enough to buy you stuff like that.

Ruthless weeding is needed for any decently maintained collection. Just as important as 'developing' and adding to the collection is sifting the chaff. Same thing with life in general. Thank God I have weird taste, or the Library Book Store would seem very dull to me. As it is, I get the wonderful reference books, and things that haven't been checked out in 5 years, but that, I think, are... FRIGGIN BAD-ASS! lol.
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In general I advise 'collectors' to:

Practice 'Collection Management & Development'. In this age of endless media saturation,
cut loose those five hundred '4-for-a-dollar' romance novels and dime-a-dozen horror masterpieces. They'll just bog you down, and someone else 'needs' them more. Buy and own and spend time only with the things you want to absorb into the marrow of your bones.



About my apparent word salad, schizophasia, & logorrhea:

It makes sense to me! lol. Also, I'm having fun, being a goof, and merrily posting here.
Take no offense. I write to understand an idea more, and to hopefully exchange good, new information.



Summary:
Enjoy life.
Thanks for posting those awesome pics again!
You and your husband have a really cool collection o' books.

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[Neoma]

82. Oh goodness, there really aren't that many...

That I wouldn't read. They're simply my husbands books... For example, he bought the book that Scientology is based on for a good laugh. And the Morman bible... (he's atheist, see.) I really can't see myself reading those books. I'm not very much into fiction. (Did I say that?)

Anyways, I'm seriously reading everything on WWII that I can get. FDR is part of the package. I read Lawrence of Arabia by Jeremy Wilson... the most boring 950 paged book ever. So, I have a lot of patience when I read...

As for cutting down our library, it's a bizarre idea. It's too much part of the family now. I have always viewed that my average of reading around 50-75 books a year to be a very lazy attempt, because I do that on the side of playing videogames as much as a full time job... (I bought the game Skyrim and I was already into it for
190 hours within 2 and a half weeks.)

I've never read a romance novel and my husband owns the Stephen King books. Which I like for an author but haven't gotten around to...and I think I want to absorb almost all of my collection.

I guess I should try harder on my reading... If you've been wondering, I've read all the books in pictures 10, 11, 12, and 13. And a few more tucked around in other places...Most of those I might eventually get rid of. I already have for most all of the books I've read.

I'm reminded of an author I read about (Don't ask me who, but I suspect I read this in the book Seeds by Richard Horan.) who amassed about 39,000(?) books over the years. There truly are more stunning collections than mine.

But as for vanity, I'd say it's actually more of a panic. I wasn't formally educated, and I taught myself since I was taken out of public school after 3rd grade. There was a lot of pressure to be well read...So all this is actually a very large attempt to educate myself. Not just for the sake of it.

[Shoe Horn]

99. LOL. Whatever

Reading those books will serve (us) better than this exchange, most likely.
Thanks for posting and...

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[Neoma]

63. By the way...

The history of the Banana is more interesting than the Six glasses book.

[Shoe Horn]

75. What's the title exactly? Believe it or not, there's like 6 books on 'the history of the banana'.

And the voice of the author, I'm sure ya know, is equal to or more
important than... the raw information presented in any book.

[Neoma]

80. Banana by Dan Koeppel

[Shoe Horn]

92. Thanks.

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[blueamy66]

69. Holy crap!

I thought that I had alot of books!

You win!!

[Neoma]

79. Eh, I've known people with more...

Shelfari.com There's a Book Hoarding group there...

[hobbit709]

61. That would take a dozen photos.

Not counting the 5000+ books I have in PDF.

My latest acquisitions are the Evil Genius books.
15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius
30 Arduino Projects for the " "
Electronic Projects for the " "
More electronics Projects " "
101 spy Gadgets for the " "

[Shoe Horn]

71. And?! Do it. Do it now.............................(WARNING: SEXYx100 Ahead)

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I command thee.


Hmmm,
Kinda defeats the purpose, if I have to warn you about the punchline, before delivering it.

[hobbit709]

72. you should put a warning on that picture

[madrchsod]

62. no can do.....

i have books and boxes of magazines stuffed in every available space in my house.

[Historic NY]

83. I hate people looking over my shoulder.......LOL.

[ensho]

65. I'd have to photograph my public library

and libraries in a number of other cities and towns

[blueamy66]

68. here ya go

one more.....crappy pics, but the camera is in the car and I am not going out into the cold!!

[RedCloud]

89. Here's mine. They told me to check for leaks a while back.

[RainDog]

90. I love this thread.

I can't post pictures of my bookshelves right now. however, I do have quite a few books. I had hoped to be up and running before Christmas for an online bookstore but... soon.

anyway, if you're interested in used and reasonably priced new books, I will be posting in the DU Marketplace. If you'd like me to send you a notice when things are up and running, send me a DU mail and I'll let you know.

If you want a link to a fb page for the future store, send me a DU mail for that, too.

I love books. I also acquired a ton of brand new sheet music from the 40s and 50s when I acquired the backstock of an indie store that had been in business for 60 years. I have some interesting cold war titles and Vietnam War titles - the bulk of my inventory from that stock is from the 1960s - brand new books.

I also have more than one copy of quite a few titles of newer fiction and I will have book club groups for those.

I'm a rare books librarian and before that I wrote professionally - actually getting back into that again, happily, because, after working with books for many years, people now want me to write about them, too.

[Dystopian]

91. Odd bookshelf picture

I could explain....but it's a long story ...
This photo was taken about 6 years ago...
I'm posting it because my dearly beloved father made it for me...
He was a carpenter....I asked him to make me a bookshelf ...and for him...a labor of love....
I've had it for 28 years....
It's not about the books....most are scattered about the house ....it's my precious bookshelf..



The picture was supposed to go on a anti-war website, but I used a different one...
Just a partial explanation..


peace~

[Shoe Horn]

100. Cool.

Nothing better than a personally significant bookshelf,
to hold the personally significant books in your life.