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Building A Bookcase

6 Responses to “Building A Bookcase”. Leave a Reply.

1. # Rebeccaon 03 Oct 2004 at 12:06 am

   A quote I saw once upon a time: “Books breed like rabbits; bookcases breed like elephants.” It’s impossible to have too many bookcases!

2. # Jodyon 03 Oct 2004 at 9:47 am

   I should’ve mentioned this in my post:

   The Book On The Bookshelf by Henry Petroski is about bookshelves. It’s a history of the shelf and how its evolution mirrors that of civilation. No kidding. The author writes:

   … the presence of bookshelves greatly influences our behavior.

   Think about THAT.

3. # Penderon 04 Oct 2004 at 2:03 pm

   I have half a bookcase full of muscle mags, does that count?

   Positively influences behavhior, or turns you into a pompus snob? You’ve mentioned this to me before and I still believe that the number of books a person has means NOTHING, other than they have enough money to buy these books, but not necessarily read them. By this logic, I could go buy a bunch of books that I want to reflect “me,” and that would add to my decorum and, in your eyes, raise me to an acceptible social standing. Totally ignorant!

4. # Jodyon 04 Oct 2004 at 2:12 pm

   > I still believe that the number of books a person has means NOTHING

   I agree. I loath to see books sitting on shelves like they’ve never been read, being displayed like trophies.

5. # Debon 08 Sep 2005 at 5:35 pm

   good and simple. I’ve made a couple of small bookcases and small
   tables. Now, I want to build six foot long shelves. I live alone
   and am in a bit of a dilemma about how to do this. Any ideas? Got to have these utility shelves. Don’t really have walls to attach to
   there.

   Deb

6. # tommyboyon 10 Sep 2005 at 9:49 pm

   jody wasn’t it you who once quoted to me winston churchill to the effect that 6000 volumes is only an adequate begining….

   plus all those book cases make great hiding places for my porn…ohh now you know…ooops..

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