With my wife finishing her PhD in 19th century British Literature (she has >100
Library books at the moment) and the fact that I'm both a big reader and a congenital pack-rat, I'm looking at putting
high-density shelving in a room, once we have a house rather than an apartment, just to handle the books!
I only have about 1/3~1/2 of my books in the apartment (the rest are in storage), so we're in a bad way come move time. I'm going to have a very interested look at that book you mentioned, yvanleterrible, and I may have to give you a call when it comes time to do those HD shelves.
I'm thinking of a design where the shelves would slide out from one in of the room like drawers in a giant chest of drawers laid on its side, wall to wall, floor to ceiling. The weight alone frightens me.
