[Renate]

Ok, I'm been to Trinity College, Dublin, Old Library.
It's quite the eye-porn, but what's the use?
When was the last time that a volume was touched?

You see authors, intellectuals against a backdrop of overflowing bookcases.
(Especially lawyers, but we won't get into that one.)

If it were 50 years ago and I were rich, I'd have a library of 25,000 volumes.
I'd keep them in a (climate controlled) basement in Stor-Reels.
Those are the shelves on train tracks so that in a whole series there is only 4 feet of slack that can be positioned where you want it.

I want access to books. I don't want to look at them.

But you. Do you consider them esthetic, visually pleasing?
Or nasty, dust-collecting objects that steal space that could be better used for chairs, divans, reading lamps?