have my own library in my house

Oh, and how about the best library ever?

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/at-europe/at-europe-london-closeup-the-amazing-staircase-042543

I don’t think anything makes me happier than filling up a bookcase, and then just staring at the lovely lovely books. Alphabetizing is thrilling.

I’m actually quite proud. I only have about 150 books, edited down to the ones I’m not embarrassed to own, and the bookcase is small but it’s full and I’m still in high school.

Now I need another one, I suppose. Aha, I think I’ve cracked the secret to growing a library…

Weird thing is I don’t even like reading. Sounds odd, but if I had to pick a room for my personal office, I would want it to look like a library. All the walls would be fully covered in books. Opposite of the entrance would be my desk. I guess it would be sorta like Mr Burns on the Simpsons.

In the past month I have added roughly 50 books to my ever growing collection. I found some great books at yard sales and dicontinued at the local library. I hope to hit some used book stores this wekk when I get paid.

My collection is now approximately 300 books.

I spent most of Sunday rearranging my books on LibraryThing to be sorted by LCC. I had to hunt down or estimate some of the listings, but it turned out well. The cover view option on my LT account is now quite harmonious.

It’s only a matter of months (I hope), and I can’t wait to get my hands on some IKEA floor-to-ceiling shelves and my 395 beautifully organized books.

i am not giving up on this goal. i am re-allocating it’s 1/43rd of space to something else, that will lead to my happiness and well being, and all of that will further lead to a job that i love, which will lead to a paycheck that i love, which i will use to better my femininity and pay off my debt so that someday in a few years in a better economy i can buy a house. . which will contain built In’s – for books : hence a library.

Please check out this 1954 first edition.

$7,700.

That’s not a typo.

God, I want that.

I suppose the first step would be to purchase an actual bookshelf, then start adding books I love.

I liked someone else’s idea of filling it with your favorites and giving away the books you’re not too fond of.

What’s a personal library if it’s stocked with things you don’t care about? Quality over quantity is the name of the game.

in lou of my garage sale i have actually purged a TON (maybe a half ton) of books that i have accumulated but i have no connection too. they weren’t really gifts from anyone special, i didn’t enjoy reading them, for whatever reason i have held onto them, as though it were a sin to give away a book, or sell one at a garage sale. my library, soemday, shall be full of books i actually want to own.

I have always loved reading, but is only been recently that I’ve become quite passionate about collecting my favourite books. I’d love to build up a collection of penguin classics, historical literature, biographies, modern favourites and coffee table books on art, fashion, architecture, travel and history. At the moment I just have a bookcase in my room, but when I have my house one day in the future, I’d like to devote a room to building a library.