/shelf/ thread general

Post 'em. Also, how do you guys sort your books? By author, publisher, region, theme?

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I sort them by authors first name

Mine are sorted by date published

I alphabatize mine according to the author's country of origin

>sorting
>like how rights are sorted by race, gender, and class

No thanks, fascista

Currently living in the corner of a friends studio so my shelf is very smoll

I sort by how T H I C C the books are

I maneuver my books in a way so that they can all fit on my cinderblock and plywood shelf.

I started with alpha by author but have since run out of room.

This might be unpopular but i sort them by size. This way they fit perfectly (legolike) and I have a lot more space. And desu I don't have problems remembering where every book is.

I have 30 books and I sort by my most favorite/recent reads, to books I have to finish

Alphabetical, first by author, then by title. I will only break the rule in order to put multi-volume works in their proper order. I've considered separating fiction from non-fiction, but the thought of exactly where to draw the line makes me anxious so I haven't done it.

by jewish to least jewish

sort by colour my man

Rate?

0/100 for not having any personal taste.

You spent a stupid amount of money at barnes and noble so that all the books you don't read could look presentable/10

how many of those have you read?

i feel really bad for you because i know spent a fucking shitload of money so im not going to be too harsh, but this is incredibly tacky and ugly and you should probably feel bad

Pretty clear you care more about pretty books than actually reading books.

My wife and I love reading and have been collecting these leather bound books from Barnes and Noble. Two trips ago put us just over capacity for our small bookcase but we can't help ourselves.

These aren't our only books but they're our prettiest so we separated them from the rest. She's deployed right now but I've been thinking about taking on a project and building us a new bookshelf, as a lesbian I have to have some carpentry skills hidden somewhere, right?

post the shelves of other books, that's the shelf that actually reveals your personality and tastes.

also please don't stereotype. You might be completely incompetent at woodworking

>My wife and I love reading and have been collecting these leather bound books from Barnes and Noble. Two trips ago put us just over capacity for our small bookcase but we can't help ourselves.
that's a small child's book case it took two of you to fill with books you picked for middle class prettiness.

consider on the other hand my gf have a treaty which entitles the person willing to pay for the structural support to the next bookcase, and you might see how less than ten each isn't "can't help ourselves". if you're going to collect "pretty" books at least spring for folio or antiques. most facsimiles have better paper quality. all you've done is build a shrine to low wage aspirations here

Jesus fucking christ

In the stack thread he said he'd just bought them, so probably not many yet.

thas a different person, brosephine

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how the fuck are there two of these people on this board right now

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Here's an older photo of our other shelves.

you deserve crucifixion

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I'm a student, I haven't finished unpacking, and most of the books I own are at my family home. With that in mind:

1/3 Fiction

2/3 (Mostly contemporary Atlantic Canadian) Poetry

3/3 Politics and Philosophy

i can't tell for sure, but is this one continuous image, or have you spliced several pictures together? like is this the wall i'm greeted with upon entering your apartment?

Thank you for showing us your unread books which anyone at all could have bought.

canada fucking sucks. my experience with border control there has forever turned me away from that goddamn frost-covered nation. fuck you and your bland socialism.

on another note, are "but is it art?" and "inventing the future" any good?

Clearly it's multiple pictures spliced together, look at the angles of the shelves

why do people get on others who buy books "anyone at all could have bought"? why is the conformity you seem to condemn in and of itself a bad thing? you assume that he hasn't read them--but if he has, then i'd imagine he'd be more educated than a considerable amount of the living human race. besides, it's not like pynchon, eco, etc are necessarily terrible authors, despite their meme status.

where is your wonderfully read, deep collection--oh you who profess against others? so far you strike me as nothing more than a paean to human uselessness.

>le epic 'you must destroy a book's spine to have read it' meme

not falling for it today, user
>on another note, are "but is it art?" and "inventing the future" any good?

if you have no knowledge of aesthetics or contemporary art then ya the Freeland is a great introductory text, very accessible and often fun to read. Very informative.

Inventing the Future draws, to my mind, dubious conclusions about the role of automation in the end of capitalism but the work is also very instructive as to how the left could/should be organizing in the 21st Century. Don't let "post-capitalism" instead of "socialism" fool you, thems are commies.

I sort mine basically like a library. I have my nonfiction sorted first by subject, with each next to the ones that make the most sense to me, so humanities subjects together, politics next to economics, the hard sciences and maths next to each other, etc. Within the subject I sort them chronologically, whether by the topic (a book on ancient pagan religions of the British Isles before Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People) or else when they were published if the topics are essentially the same (two books on world cultures), whatever makes the most sense to me.

My fiction is sorted like in a library, alphabetically by author's last name. For those authors by whom I havd multiple works, I sort alphabetically by title. Right before fiction I have works about literature, like Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces and a text on Middle English Literature for example, then works of antiquity amd epic poetry, then poetry collections.

Should've said
*right before things like novels, novellas, plays, and short story collections

have you read anything by erik olin wright? what do you study?

I haven't! What would you recommend? I've looked him up and he seems interesting, I'll add him to my summer reading.

I study literature, despite what some might think my meme books might suggest

what you wrote about the "invention of the future" reminded me of some of his stuff. if you're interested in that kinda thing, i'd recommend first his latest work, which i actually teach as part of a course on utopianism:

amazon.com/Envisioning-Real-Utopias-Erik-Wright/dp/184467617X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484591166&sr=8-1&keywords=erik olin wright

and one of his seminal early works:

amazon.com/Class-Crisis-State-Erik-Wright/dp/0860917193/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1484591166&sr=8-6&keywords=erik olin wright

some of david harvey's stuff might be of interest, too. if i think of others i'll let you know.

what period of literature are you most interested in? most influential authors upon your thought?

I have my China themed books sorted by theme.(Language,Big novels,Philosophy,Poetry,Religion)

I have a shelf for multiple volume novels (Tolstoy,Dosty,Mann etc.)
But I sort by nationality when it comes to that.
Slav next to other slav,hungarian between the slavs and germans,then comes the englis and after the english spanish and latin.

Christian stuff is next to eachother,Tragedy of man is both christian and a play,so I place my plays after that.

I own so many books of Karinthy that I put all of them next to eachother.Based on edition.

I mostly follow the Theme>writer>size format or the theme>writer>edition>size

I do height then width. Them thicc Amazonian girls go all the way to the left

Idk why everyone is hating. Nice books and the fact that they look so nice is a GOOD thing. I wish all my books were like this.

That's several pictures together, so the titles are more visible. But it actually was all along one wall--here's an alternate pic of it.

Right on, thanks!

For pleasure I mostly read postmoderns, but academically I'm most interested in the medievals. I'm in my second year of undergrad and have only taken a survey of early English lit, but I'm pretty sure that's what I'll wind up studying.

(also yeah, it was the wall delivery people got to see behind me when delivering things)

I moved and now they're spread out between rooms, not nearly as nice to see. I'm hoping to get an addition built sometime soon that would have a den/library, but it's not too high up the priority list.

i dont get all the hate toward this. it looks fine; barnes and noble made those bindings to be consumed and presented within a certain cultural milieu, and that seems to be exactly what is happening. what's the big deal? half of these other photos are the same books, just in different bindings; and the other half are mere attempts at aesthetics, anyway.

besides, its not like any of you fuckers are really that educated, have tremendously deep or wide collections, or are broadly read. ironically, and if i remember right, this dude
is working on a phd in japanese lit; apart from him, i highly doubt many of you have the grounds to complain in an aesthetic thread about an aesthetic image that, in all honesty, i have no doubt the author of that photo has actually read some of her shit.

y'all as hypocritical and vainglorious as ever, you stupid judgmental fuckers.

>all those tacky ass books
>cheap ikea furniture
>disgusting wall-to-wall carpet

go back

what's all that shit on top? is that legos and shit?

Pathetic.

"There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best sellers -- unread, untouched. (This deluded individual owns woodpulp and ink, not books.) ..."

these are cute user keep buying what you want

that's one kind

what do you own, user? what kind of book owner are you?

Because it's consumerism pretending to be culture. Here, I'm gonna sperg for a minute.

Yeah, I'll fully admit, in these threads you'll often get a lot of of the same (meme) stuff, and that's because the Veeky Forums crowd is pretty similar- a boring male college student trying to be intellectual.

but at least their bookshelves say something about themselves. You are what you eat, you are what you read after all.

Looking at you can tell nothing about the person's reading habits, only their buying habits.

Why the fuck do they have a copy of Gray's Anatomy, Star Wars novelizations, the Iliad and the Da Vinci Code all on the same shelf? Starship Troopers AND Wicked? Who the fuck is this person?

The answer: somebody who bought books for the way they look.

Lego Architecture sets. They're pretty nice ways to spend a few hours. I also have some Nanoblocks, since they have more non-American landmarks.

Since I generally sort books by country of author origin, I'd eventually like to have the landmarks on top of the bookcases that correspond to each country.

i have the illiad and gray's anatomy, probably even the da vinci code. im not sure what any of this says; it's like you mistake eclecticism for stupidity or contradiction or something. i could rehearse whitman and your entire argument falls to shambles: "very well, then i contradict myself, i am large, i contain multitides"

now where i do think you might have a point is in the nature of its consumption. i personally would be more sympathetic to super troopers being enxt to da vinci code next to homer, etc., if they weren't designed for purely aesthetic consumption. but i'm sorta just ambivalent about this--books come in many bindings, so its kinda like fuck it, who cares if your library operates secondarily as a work of (highly personal) "art"?

again, a lot hinges on whether the author of the photo has read their collection. but, too my greater point: i very much doubt you are any better read, or better stocked, than said photo. it's a matter of hypocrisy--equally as damaging to "culture" as you put it.
is "consumerism pretending to be culture" any better than a low-witted, insecure idiot pretending to be a cultural vanguard? y'all are equally fucked up, just from different angles.

From biggest to smallest desu

>Why the fuck do they have a copy of Gray's Anatomy, Star Wars novelizations, the Iliad and the Da Vinci Code all on the same shelf? Starship Troopers AND Wicked? Who the fuck is this person?
>You don't fit any of my preconceived stereotypes of what a persons interests should be REEEEEEEEEEEEE

Alphabetical based on title. You know. Like a non-autist.

There's a difference between dabbling in many things and, uh, skimming the surface so lightly your toes don't get wet?

but yeah, I agree with you, how else are you gonna find out what you like unless you try lots of things? A large palate is good. I shouldn't have implied otherwise.

I probably wouldn't think twice about their collection if it wasn't all the same publisher/series/whatever. But because it is, the presumption of consumerism is there, and it makes me skeptical(cynical?).

and heck, I'll even backpedal on my earlier REEEEE. Taking another look, they do have a nice collection of children's books on the top right there. That's cool, I like that! So I guess I'm wrong about that OP, anyways.

And I do apologize if I came off as a vanguard. I am a pleb for sure.

The problem is that conforming babbies on this board find the Everyman binding the most aesthetic, so anyone with the sporty binding popular among millenials (Penguin Hardcover Classics or B&N Hardcover) is to be condemned for non-conforming within Veeky Forums.

Same reason we condemn best-sellers like George R.R. Martin. Sure, most people are reading them and like to read them, but within our Veeky Forums circle doing so is gauche and considered a mark of the normie.

Despite the other user's protests, you could read every B&N Hardcover front to back and it wouldn't make a difference. You'd still be a disgraceful normie for buying the millenial flashy binding.

>but at least their bookshelves say something about themselves

The things our bookshelves say is "stay the fuck away. this guy probably visits Veeky Forums and /pol/, and if you hunt enough around his house you'll find the jars he uses store his urine in."

You are Veeky Forums. You may be the only one arguing it, but we all know we group-think that way if we're on here long enough.

Fucking normies, amirite?

that's cool. I like the Batman legos

>based on title

>Since I generally sort books by country of author origin, I'd eventually like to have the landmarks on top of the bookcases that correspond to each country.

Aren't your books sorted by color?

No, by country. The color thing is a coincidence.

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i just watched that guy give a presentation at a conference.

spoiler: he's a marxist

but I like his presentation differentiating the relations of social, economic and state power to each other and economic activity

you buy expensive books to look nice but don't actually read them/10

>lesbian
>Wife in millitary
>wants to build a bookshelf
could you be anymore of a sterotype if you tried

Where can I get bookcases like these?

How is A True Novel? I've been thinking about picking it up.

By fit.

The shelf at the head of my bed.
No, I am not memeing.

by literal size

why you got so much fucking lord of the rings

>harlan ellison
>redwall
>being this much of a pretty cool guy

Shelf after one year of reading. Would love some suggestions.

oi thats a lot of fuckin redwall

You read any of that Japanese mumbo jumbo? It any good?

I have enjoyed all the one that I have read, my favorites have been Kokoro and Snow Country if you are interested.

Are you allergic to long books?

Yes

The reason I have so much stuff by Tolkien, is because I'm a pretty big fan of him, and even tho I don't read any of the Redwall books I'm still a really big fan and they're there for emotional reasons.
Also Ellison is just coo'.

In those pictures, yeah. I said "generally." I only did by color right before I moved, since they'd soon be shoved into boxes anyway.

One of my favorite novels I read in 2015, I'm sure even people not especially into Japanese literature would like it. The first ~150 pages might throw you off since they're autobiographical novel-within-a-novel set-up for the story, but you could honestly skip that bit and get right to the Wuthering Heights beginning if you wanted to. If you like doorstopper family-centered novels, you'd probably enjoy it.

What'd you think of The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong?

It was a bit hard to follow at times and some parts were very slow with not much happening but the majority of it was very intresting, I would highly suggest it.

What made it hard to follow? Lots of unfamiliar names?

What does seeing a particular book on someone's shelf mean to you? Considering owning a book doesn't mean they actually like it, let alone have read it.

Yeah, a lot of people are introduced and it was tough to memorize them, especially with Korean family names there were many people with the anems Kim, Pak, Yi, or Cho.

Those who sort shelves by author, how do you deal with textbooks and the like with multiple authors, classic works with no attested authors, or anthology-like books that contain work from several authors?

by era, then type (history, philosophy, poetry, etc.), then author.

>not pictured: collection of massive multi-colored dragon dildos

consumer/10 read marx

>textbooks

Non-fiction has its own section sorted by subject.

>no author

Put them at the very beginning or very end.

>anthologies

They go in the anonymous section too, but next to each other.