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Originally Posted by ficbot
I came across this book today when I was browsing at the bookstore on my way home. I paged through it right there in the store and loved it. It is all about using book collections as a decorating feature in the home. I loved seeing pictures of all those beautiful library rooms, and while it did not change my views on ebooks per se, it did help me empathize a little with those who are so fixated on the book-as-object. Some of those rooms were beautiful and I have no doubt at all that I would greatly enjoy spending significant amounts of time in some of those rooms if I had the chance. One guy had literally lined every single wall of his whole apartment with wall-to-wall bookshelves and it was like he lived in a library! There were also some nice rooms where the collection was on a smaller scale 
Bottom line for me is, I have been too traumatized by my frequent moves to ever consider having a collection like that again. The thought of packing them up and moving them and unpacking them and my family having to deal with them if anything happened to me gives me a cold sweat. I much prefer having them all on the computer where I can have as many of them as I want and not have to worry about it. But with that said, some of the rooms in that book were simply gorgeous and I would love to sleep over at wall to wall book guy's place and look at all of his stuff
I think if I ever do have the money for a real house with tons of space, I would like to create the feeling of those library rooms. The rooms that seemed to draw me in and make me go 'I *want* that!' were not so much about the sheer quantity of books anyway. They were the ones with the large table in the middle for spreading out and doing work, or the ones with with couches and plushy chairs in front of a large, dominating fireplace. |
When we bought our house, a few years ago, after we demolished about everything that had to be demolished, we decided to create a lounge, which will be dedicated to reading. Which means all our books will be there, in floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall bookshelves. With a sit-hammock and a traditional hammock and some poofs.
I can't wait for that space to be done!