Your library?

[Germanicus]

Here is my library, it has everything i need for reference.
Post a picture of your own library.

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[Groenewolf]

Just look at some of my pic's in the member picture tread to see a part of it.

[Rachel]

OH i just cant wait to move into my new apartment even though it's very small one a studio, it comes with a dressing room which i am gonna turn into a office !!!! so exciting !!! and when i am all done ill post photos, because in my humble opinion one can never have too many books.

[ikki]

maybe some 300 books afaik..

[Piparskeggr]

Let's see, just off the top of my head, Mrs Pip and I have about 20 book cases the size of the one you show, plus 12 half height and six single wall shelves...plus books and periodicals scattered around on desks, side tables, and so on. I still have every book I've ever purchased, as does she. It has been the single largest weight category when we move, aside from the firearms (ammo, accessories, gunsmithing tools...) and cutlery :)

Our fictional tastes are pretty solidly historical (esp. military), mysteries (no characters newer than late 19th century), science fiction and fantasy, with a few contemporary adventure novels thrown in the mix.

Our non fiction runs the gamut from treatises on stone age survival skills to quantum theory; Neolithic to Nanolithic and quite a lot in between.

About 9 - 10 thousand pieces in all, I'd think.

Then again, she and I have become something of "pack rats" over the years of being settled in one place (going on 14 years here in northern Illinois).

[Liffrea]

I have absolutely no idea…I’ve been reading books since I was five, when I buy anything it’s usually books. At present I have two whole walls of my bedroom that are shelves from ceiling to floor, two more shelves on the landing and a book case in the dining room, plus quite a lot of books on CD Rom and on my hard drive waiting to be transferred to CD. Easily in the thousands but I don’t know how many….

[Germanicus]

I also like Ullarsskald have kept every book i have ever read, this collection is mostly of Japanese, and survival fiction. The vast amount is stored in my garage on an especially built overhead racking. The Roman Collection of books i have aquired is stored in a spare bedroom. As Ullarsskald has posted, a lifetimes collection of books is an ever growing weight.:)

[Liffrea]

Alright....count them:

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[Grumpy Cat]

I don't have a picture but I have a large collection of books. Mostly IT books but also Old Norse literature and political books as well.

[Eldritch]

As you can see, my own personal library is perfectly organised and catalogued: ;)

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(the television isn't mine btw, I'm just keeping it for someone)

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However since I am a Helsinki taxpayer, I consider myself a co-owner of the the HelMet (http://www.helmet.fi/search~S9/X) library database, which contains millions of volumes.

[Loddfafner]

I have seen bookstores with fewer books, but Ullarsskald may have me beat. In my own home I count only 15 bookcases, plus a couple of stray shelves, boxes, and piles. What is stored elsewhere might fill up another 6 or 7 cases though.

[Ulf]

Mine could probably fill 1.5 to 2 of the bookshelf in Germanicus' picture, though I recently went and removed all the books I consider garbage from my library, so maybe less. I'm really picky about my 'collection' and the only ones I really consider apart of it are old literature and philosophy books.

[Osweo]

Alright....count them:

COUNT them?! Good Gods, Man, I'm itching to bloody organise them! Shame on you for the boody state of that lot!

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When I was in my late teens we had a house with huge built in book cases in the dining room, and I loved to arrange my better looking books there, taking due consideration for height and colour... :p

I also had plenty of shelves full elsewhere of paperbacks and penguin classics and the like. I occasionally counted them for curiosity's sake, and it was well over fifteen hundred at least. :)

Years of travelling about since then have added hundreds more books, but have also resulted in them being shoved unceremoniously in a few dozen cardboard boxes in a storage room at my Dad's business... :cry2

ONE day, they will all be brought out again into the light... Hopefully in my lifetime. ;)

I have a good cupboard and a half full of Russian ethnography, history and folklore, including the complete works of Lev Gumilyov. The Thames and Hudson 'ancient peoples and places' series is an especial favourite, and I have any number of books of the collective Lore of the peoples of these Islands...

I toy with the idea of being buried with them all, Tutankhamun style, should my heirs prove to be uncultured louts (it happens to the best of fathers, unfortunately).

[Liffrea]

Originally Posted by Osweo
COUNT them?! Good Gods, Man, I'm itching to bloody organise them! Shame on you for the boody state of that lot!

Lol, believe it or not they are actually organised into categories, English history, history, Anglo-Saxon/Germanic/Celtic, literature, philosophy, science, heathenism, science-fiction/fantasy, Tolkien and Pratchett. There are odds and ends around but I know where everything is, I read and write most days so I don’t always put things away….

[Octothorpe]

I've not counted lately, but when the wife and I married we merged two rather large collections--several thousand volumes of assorted hardbacks, paperbacks, folios, sequential art, usw. We've decided that when we finish the basement (now it's just concrete and wood), it's going to be a library/bar combo. Drinking and reading! :thumb001:

[Osweo]

Lol, believe it or not they are actually organised into categories,
Deary me... :p
How drearily functional!

Pratchett.
I have everything he wrote up until ... oh, what was it - 'The Hogfather', perhaps. He wrote more but I'd rather grown out of it by then. I've got a PC game of his inspiration, and the 'companion' and two maps too. Half a dozen or so are hardbacks, and one is signed.

The reason I bring it up is this; I've got them all in one box, and am not particularly bothered about keeping them - how much do you reckon I could ask for the lot? I've never done things like Ebay before, and am not really familiar with how things are done there, but do you reckon I might get a bit of money for them as a set, or should I get rid of em one at a time? Or should they go straight to the Age Concern shop?

[Ulf]

I have seen bookstores with fewer books, but Ullarsskald may have me beat. In my own home I count only 15 bookcases, plus a couple of stray shelves, boxes, and piles. What is stored elsewhere might fill up another 6 or 7 cases though.

I was like a kid in a candy shop when I saw your lair full of books. The only thing that kept me from ignoring everyone and looking through them was the whiskey. :thumb001: :D

[Óttar]

I do not have a bookshelf at the moment, but a number of books are piled high upon my computer desk, still more fill a suitcase. Here's a taste:

Barron's French vocabulary,
same's French verbs,
a book on Scots Gaelic,
The Fannie Farmer Cookbook,
The Encyc. of American Criminal Law,
Dover Recognition of Shakuntala,
Dover - Nibelungenlied (trans.)
Learner's Hindi-English dictionary,
Waterman's History of the German Language,
Disease, Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland (had to read it for my B.A. thesis, its extraordinarily dry),
Teach Yourself Sanskrit,
the Oxford Duden unabridged German Dictionary,
Flaherty's Hindus: An Alternative History,
The Devi Mahatmya,
the Sri Lalita Sahasranama,
The Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, Romanised Sanskrit, and English translation, with detailed explanation of almost every point of grammar,
Oxford Upanishads,
Bengalischen Balladen,
Brewer's Dict. of Phrase and Fable,
The Affected Provincial's Companion,
Tzu's Art of War,
The Laws of Manu (manusmirtidharmashastras),
The Normans,
The Basic Writings of Nietzsche,
Learn Latin,
Learn Greek,
A Year amongst the Persians,
The Greeks in India,
Women's Religions in the Ancient World,
Offering Flowers-Feeding Skulls: Bengali Goddess Worship,
Thus Spake Zarathustra,
Kaufman's Bilingual Edition of Goethe's Faust,
Bilingual French Short Stories,
The History of the Spanish Language,
God against the Gods: History of the War between Monotheism and Polytheism,
A Detailed Account of Hindu and Muslim Castes, Occupations, and their Manners of Dress,
Sex With the Queen,
Sex Lives of the Popes,
Brave New World,
the Doors of Perception,
1984,
Animal Farm,
the Volsung Saga,
Budge's Egyptian Book of the Dead with Egyptian hieroglyphs, Romanised and English Translation...

I also have a number of ebooks including:

the Iliad,
Odyssey,
the complete Mahabharata,
Grimm's Teutonic Myth,
Apuleius' the Golden Ass,
The Works of Emperor Julian the Apostate,
the Works of Plotinus,
Selected Works of Porphyry,
Hislop's The Two Babylons: An Expose of Popery (Awesome Stuff),
Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma of the Freemasons (1,500 pages),
Aurelius' Meditations,
the Ramayana,
Jung's Red Book etc.

I just recently received (unopened as of yet) two boxes of books from my aunt. I have a number of books at my other aunts house and still yet many at my mom's house. It would be near impossible to recount them all... I am working on getting all 4 of the Vedas (truly monumentous works).

[Pallantides]

I have about 200 books myself, my parents used to have a large library in their old villa with many books from the 19th century, the oldest book was a bible from 1750.

[Osweo]

By the way, for those intent on bulking up their Bibliotecque, I should recommend one of the bookshops in Horncastle in Lincolnshire; half the shop is devoted to an astounding offer; 'Three Books For a Pound'! :eek: There's some shit on the shelves, as in every second hand bokshop, but some real gems too! It's impossible to leave without a carrier bagfull, I can vouch!

Chatting with the woman inside (delightfully unPC she is too) I asked if they had any Russian stuff they might like to get rid of. She said she'd look in their store room at home, so I came back a few days later. She had a huge box of Bulgarian books! :p I can almost read that language, so I bought the lot. :rotfl:

[Beorn]

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These are the only books I have at my home. I haven't been one for buying books in the last five or so years, as the library wasn't too far from where I lived and I didn't have the money to spend on books.
I still haven't gotten my Dad to bring me the book collection I amassed as a child to early twenties. That collection has about 150+ book in it.

[Liffrea]

Originally Posted by Osweo
The reason I bring it up is this; I've got them all in one box, and am not particularly bothered about keeping them - how much do you reckon I could ask for the lot?

Unless they are first editions you can pick them up for a few pounds now, there was a special leather bound edition released a few years back but if it’s not anything like that you might as well keep them.

Also you're missing out leaving it at Hogfather the series becomes a lot less slap stick and far more serious, try Night Watch for an example.

[Jarl]

Mine is big. It occupies the proper library plus several other rooms in my house. I attempted to count it several times, but could never be asked to finish. I estmiate there's got to be at least 10,000 books in there, collected by generations of my family.

[Psychonaut]

I also like Ullarsskald have kept every book i have ever read

Same here. My last estimate was somewhere between five and six thousand.


...sequential art...

I see what you did there... :D

If I get to count those, then that adds another couple thousand.

[Loddfafner]

Those I keep in my apartment add up to about 300 feet.

[SPQR]

Alright....count them:


You're room looks quite like mine, congrats! :thumb001:

[Svanhild]

My offline library is fairly large. I love to read novels and fantasy stories. :embarrassed Some other books contain informations about nature, history, animals, the universe and technology. The rest is serious reading for my studies.

My computer library is made up of dozens of ebooks and PDFs. :wink Roughly 400 MB altogether.

[Tabiti]

I don't know...It's in two rooms on several different shelves. There are books in front, books in back...

[Aemma]

Ohh I remember having had a chat with Jagey not that long ago where we both talked about the types of libraries we would respectively like to have one day (when rich :rolleyes: and perhaps not-so-famous). Our tastes seemed to be similar: walls filled to the rafters with books, comfy leather chairs, a table and a liquor cabinet if I recall--a refuge from the real world and into a land of dreams and thoughts and...well...a drink or two, either alone or with a couple of friends for reading and some good intelligent chat. :) Somewhat akin to an old-fashioned men's club although women would be allowed. :)

Anyway, books! Yes I have an addiction. Since I tend to have many books on the go all at once (yes eventually I do finish them, but it takes a while :)), I therefore tend to have many books. I've not parted with many over the years other than the odd high school biology text which, well, has outlived its usefulness now after some 20+ years. I'm sure biologists have discovered newer stuff since then! ;) Our tastes vary of course. I'm very much a reader of non-fiction but we have our fair share of fiction as well though most of my fiction preferences tend to be of the escapist "light" reading genre. One's brain needs a rest every so often, no?

So all of this to say, we have some books in our main living room in bookcases. Those found in one bookcase tend to be books that I consult (dictionaries, reference books, books on heathenry, culture, some history, gardening, art). Another book case has some nice hardcover editions, fiction pocketbooks and some children's literature. But mostly, tons of our books are in boxes (some still in my cousin's garden shed from our last move 4.5 years ago! :eek:...what can I say? :rolleyes:).

We do have a spare room which has become the blackhole in the house right now, a repository for all and sundry, which once cleared out will make a great guest room/library!

I'll soon try to post some pics of the bookcases I have now. If you're all lucky I'll also post a pic of my Yule tree which is *still* standing tall. :P

Nice thread to have started Germanicus! I like very much! :thumb001:

[Germanicus]

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The top shelf has Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
2nd shelf has The famous "fifty books", (story novels)
3rd shelf has encylopaedia Brittanica, 1&2 Railway wonders of the world,1&2 Everyone Enquire within, Various American west coast tour books. Famous hot Chillie meals.
4th shelf the complete collection of "People of all nations" Modern British Dictionary, self Educator, Hvca union rule books. Childrens Ecyclopaedia 1&2,
5th shelf, Anglo Saxon Chronicles. various Latin books, fictional books.

[Germanicus]

In my collection of books i have a copy of "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig.
An engineer on a ship gave it to me in 1982, it would be interesting to see how many of our forum members have read it, or still own it?

[Germanicus]

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[Aemma]

In my collection of books i have a copy of "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig.
An engineer on a ship gave it to me in 1982, it would be interesting to see how many of our forum members have read it, or still own it?

LOL Bought it and read it back in my very early uni days (which would be the early to mid-eighties as well), and still have it somewhere! I think it may be in that ensemble of books at my cousin's! :P Loved it when I got it. It could use a good re-reading though.

LOL I wonder what other little gems we all have as well? :cool:

[Germanicus]

LOL Bought it and read it back in my very early uni days (which would be the early to mid-eighties as well), and still have it somewhere! I think it may be in that ensemble of books at my cousin's! :P Loved it when I got it. It could use a good re-reading though.

LOL I wonder what other little gems we all have as well? :cool:

The most interesting part about the book for me is when he cut up an old can of coca cola into a strip, making packing for his loose handlebars on his motorbike, of course his friend declined to do the same to his...:) It was heavy reading for me back then, but hey i was at sea..:)

[Osweo]

These look superb:
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Germanicus, I'd love if you photographed an entry, to see how they deal with each ethnicity.

I wonder if the ... Pshaw are included - a Georgian subethnos?

Or the Bats - a type of Chechen sort of thingy...?

If they're too obscure, what does it have for the Komi I wonder?

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I have the 'Complete Self Educator'! :clap: My sister especially likes it. :thumbs up

[Germanicus]

Germanicus, I'd love if you photographed an entry, to see how they deal with each ethnicity.

I wonder if the ... Pshaw are included - a Georgian subethnos?

Or the Bats - a type of Chechen sort of thingy...?

If they're too obscure, what does it have for the Komi I wonder?

I have the Complete Self Educator! :clap: My sister especially likes it. :thumbs up

Georgia....it is covered in 20 pages, great photo's, some were taken by "Florence Farmborough" Here is 2 questions for you on the history of Georgia me old matey, indulge me by answering if you know What is the most famous Georgian classic?
If you were a true Georgian you would own a Kuladja, what is it?

Tomorrow i will read up on Chechen..start swatting..:)

Third picture from the top left is is in the book{guy with rifle}
http://www.heritage-images.com/Search/SearchPage.aspx?searchterm=Georgia&lictype=all&searchtype=KEY&orientation=YYYY&color=ALL&rmCollections=43,46

Also this picture. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Photograph-25x20cm-hunters-Georgia-Heritage-Images/dp/B001NSJCLG/ref=sr_1_2/275-4927550-2920005?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1264462592&sr=8-2

We have the complete set of "People's of all nations" here is what you would have to pay for them today.http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no55225.htm

[Osweo]

Georgia....it is covered in 20 pages, great photo's, some were taken by "Florence Farmborough" Here is 2 questions for you on the history of Georgia me old matey, indulge me by answering if you know
Hoho!!! :clap:

What is the most famous Georgian classic?
Knight in a Tiger Skin!

And may I be struck down by lightning if I've confused Georgian with Tajik literature! I have the ever so slightest suspicion that I may have! :eek:

My memory stirs... Is it by a man named Shota Rushtaveli? :confused:

If you were a true Georgian you would own a Kuladja, what is it?
Oooh.... SEVERAL possibilities, and a TRUE Kartvelian would have them all! Um, is it a dagger? In Russian it's kinzhal, and they figure in caricatures of Georgians.
However, I'm not entirely sure. I've never seen the word kuladja before. But Georgians should possess a black woolly hat, an enormous black wooly poncho-type thing, a long over-jacket with little pockets for bullets, and naturally enough a great big long rifle to fire those bullets from out of1

Tomorrow i will read up on Chechen..start swatting..:)

Third picture from the top left is is in the book{guy with rifle}
http://www.heritage-images.com/Search/SearchPage.aspx?searchterm=Georgia&lictype=all&searchtype=KEY&orientation=YYYY&color=ALL&rmCollections=43,46

Also this picture. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Photograph-25x20cm-hunters-Georgia-Heritage-Images/dp/B001NSJCLG/ref=sr_1_2/275-4927550-2920005?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1264462592&sr=8-2

We have the complete set of "People's of all nations" here is what you would have to pay for them today.http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no55225.htm
Excellent stuff!

[Germanicus]

Hoho!!! :clap:

Knight in a Tiger Skin!

And may I be struck down by lightning if I've confused Georgian with Tajik literature! I have the ever so slightest suspicion that I may have! :eek:

My memory stirs... Is it by a man named Shota Rushtaveli? :confused:

Oooh.... SEVERAL possibilities, and a TRUE Kartvelian would have them all! Um, is it a dagger? In Russian it's kinzhal, and they figure in caricatures of Georgians.
However, I'm not entirely sure. I've never seen the word kuladja before. But Georgians should possess a black woolly hat, an enormous black wooly poncho-type thing, a long over-jacket with little pockets for bullets, and naturally enough a great big long rifle to fire those bullets from out of1

Excellent stuff!

Yes and yes.. you have passed..:)

What was the population of Georgia in 1912?

[Osweo]

Yes and yes.. you have passed..:)
:victory0:
What do I win, aside from the glory and adoration? :p


What was the population of Georgia in 1912?

Bugger off!

[Nationalitist]

I have mostly empty bottles on my shelves.

[Northern_Paladin]

My library is just a book shelf with about 20 odd books. I have learned a lot more on the internet than from reading books.

[Rainraven]

I live out of my bag and don't have the room for a large collection of books. I have my travelling library of books I'd never get sick of reading, currently comprising of Catch 22 (Joseph Heller), The Bronze Horseman (Pauline Simons) and The Solitaire Mystery (Jostein Gaarder). Usually when I buy a book I get it second hand for a few dollars and pass it on when I'm done :)

[Osweo]

My library is just a book shelf with about 20 odd books.
I'm dying to hear how you've condensed several millenia of human written lore, knowledge and art into a mere two dozen books! Which ones are they?

I have learned a lot more on the internet than from reading books.
I can echo that to some extent, aye. Especially in fields were the definitive comprehensive book simply hasn't been written (yet)!

But I remain an ardent bibliophile. :) Picture Gollum to yourself, but stroking a 'precious' old tome instead of the Ring, and you won't be far off it. :tongue

[Piparskeggr]

It is so wonderful to see so many folk who have a love of the printed book! (I'm going to start a new thread...oldest book you own)

[Piparskeggr]

"Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"

Got it!

[Lars]

As an avid read I own a very small collection of 300 books. Thanks to an incredible library service in Denmark I've been able to keep my money in the pocket many, many times over the years.

[Piparskeggr]

Lars;


As an avid read I own a very small collection of 300 books. Thanks to an incredible library service in Denmark I've been able to keep my money in the pocket many, many times over the years.

My house would not be large enough if I add in the books, which I have either checked out from or read in the libraries local to where I have lived.

Very good point!

[W. R.]

Imaginative literature mostly:

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Because I am a Belarusian Grammar Nazi and proud:

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Historical books mostly:

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Arche. The best Belarusian porn magazine EVAR:

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Miscellaneous:

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[Bard]

Not too big, it's ikea stuff, I've assembled it by myself!
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Mostly fantasy books (I' m a fantasyfag), some historical books, some comics and a few books of italian literature.

[Cato]

Two book cases, both full, thinking of a third. Boxes and boxes overflowing with books of all sorts. I own several hundred books, from pulp paperbacks to books on government, law, politics, the U.S. Constitution, World War 1 and so on. I even have a few old Dungeons and Dragons books lying around collecting dust.

[CelticViking]

I have two rooms full of books and other rooms with smaller book cases.

[Skrondsze]

My library has 117 books. But they are mostly of Science and Math. The others are stored.

[arcticwolf]

Not many anymore. I've got almost all in electronic form. I use books as reference mostly. It's been awhile since I read anything that's not something related to the job at hand or a reference manual. I do my reading online mostly.

[Jedthehumanoid]

Here is my library, it has everything i need for reference.
Post a picture of your own library.

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My God man, I thought I was anal, can I see a picture of your duster :dielaughing:

[Caismeachd]

I sold off most of my books but my old library consisted of Nietzsche, Kiersey, Kretshmer, Joseph Conrad, books on health, and temperament. Now I have a few Kurt Vonnegut books, some books on buddism a friend sent me (not an ideology I fully agree with) and a few others. I can't read ebooks over a computer or tablet. I need to have them in physical form.

[Stefan]

My library is currently a tiny bookshelf with a few textbooks on it in a disorganized fashion. Mark my words though, once I have my own house/apartment and income, I'll have a magnificent library. I already have the plans constructed in my mind. :)

It'll consist of at least one bookcase dedicated to natural science: ordered from the fundamental to more developed subjects.

Then there would be a case for fiction, which will be ordered based on genre.

And the last bookcase will be on history, politics, geography, social sciences, linguistics, etc.

On the walls, there will be allusions, quotes, and references to the books found in the library.

In the center of the room will be a desk and possibly a PC particularly suited for categorization. There will also be ebook versions of all books in the library on a few ebook readers. On the last wall, not covered by a bookshelf, there will be an electronic board and a marker or chalk board.

I hope to accumulate at least 200 books for each bookcase before I set this up, and they'll particularly be chosen for their quality. The other books I'll keep possibly on another - separate shelf in another room, or in storage.

[member]

My library is mostly in my computer. There are some books I can't find to buy so I borrow them from library and scan. it takes time but the PDF "search" function is very handy.

[Bobcat Fraser]

I've had hundreds of books over the years. I donated or sold most of them. The ones, that I now have in my library, take up way too much space. It might be time to pare my collection. I have books on many varied subjects. Each section or shelf contains books about a certain subject. For example, there's a history shelf, and there's a religion shelf, and "zzzz". This might be the most boring post that I've ever written.:yawn: