I'm wondering how you guys and girls store your books. As I share my room with my big bro, there's not much space for a real bookshelf, so put my books on a wooden screwed onto the wall.

But the bad thing is, there's a a lot of dust, plus it's not long/wide enough for my book collection that I have to put the books in horizontal position to fit in more books.

If I want to read the book on the lowest position I have to be careful not to move to much or else the upper books gonna fly down towards me.

Anyway, this is how I put my books.


So...how do you put yours?

lol

fantasy literature fan eh?

for me i have a three tier shelf for em

same horizontal like u to save space

but do note that open air shelp tends to allow books that are not protected yellow...like my Calvin & Hobbes collections...

actually I'm a fantasy + game genre fan see those forgotten realms, warcraft and halo books? I really like reading about their universe

if open air makes them go yellow...perhaps I should put them into a cheap plastic container? I'm just wondering if the shelf can stand the weight of book + container

lol.....Calvin & Hobbes collections....I only read them on The Star...really funny + naughty boy

Um maybe go Daisho and get those cloth storage boxes with the transparent window to see titles and zippered up. They have them for manga but sure have bigger ones that can fit different book sizes.

try those plastic boxes they sell in hypermarts. i store like Banks, and they all turned yellow over the years.

Where is this Daisho? I google it up, and it shows me Daisho Food which is at Subang Jaya.

if that's the case I better go and buy a plastic box ASAP! A few of my books are becoming "Yellow Pages" like.

I don't think you can prevent it yellowing 100% but it will delay it if stored in covered area.

Daisho is in Curve. The escalator at Borders (not in Borders, in front of entrance) go to top floor you'll spot it.

This post has been edited by redninja: Oct 7 2009, 11:15 AM

get bookshelf with glass door.

Yep is good suggestion. Billy from Ikea is good if you have the space. Dust still does get in though.

If I can kick my brother out of the our room, then I might have space for book. Still, I'm gonna check out this Billy. Downloading the IKEA catalogue now.

boxes, lots of boxes

got them from stationary shops

cardboard boxes? seems fragile to me

Anyway, I manage to get hold a plastic container that my uncle doesn't want.

So here's my new pictures:


stuff it into my wardrobe to save space


next time I get a bigger room I'm gonna a Billy bookcase!

a fellow halo book fan i see, +1!

ray

the 1 man army theme sounds cool to me and I like the halo universe too

Hmmm, i have books everywhere lol.
Until I get my own house, it's just literally everywhere.
I probably need a 2 or 3 bookshelves of at least 3m x 2m to put all my books lol.

i cant keep track anymore. my books are all over the place, stacked & in boxes lol

then it's gonna be hard then, finding back all the books

ooo..i want the Eisenhorne.

I just bought a 7ft x 3ft cupboard just for books and it is filling up really fast.

I am trying to figure out a way to preserve my books too. An old cupboard (closed up, with mothballs,charcoal bags,humidity container) somehow got infected with mould, turning the books yellow and spotted and covers splotchy. I suspect those are fungi. I was so sad. Now with the new cupboard I am crossing my fingers. I really dont know what to do.

haha I bought it for rm20 during a booksale. A nice read. I'm getting Ravenor after I finish my other books.

Whoa! I guess it's time to make a trip to ikea? How fast you read the books by the way? I read like 1~2 chapters a day before sleeping.

OMG...so many protection and the books still turning yellow I think I'm gonna cross my fingers with the plastic container too.

Not as much books as strinq. 3 each x 3m x 2m are a heck of a lot of books.

Dont know whether anyone has problems like me. think it's Msia humidity that kills the books fast.

oooo...I want cheap Eisenhorne. Which warehouse sale? I just got Darkblade and Gaunt's Ghosts: The Saint omnibus for RM 15 each. It was a very very lucky find as there was only one each in the whole warehouse and I went back 3 times.

I go thru about 4 books a month. But I have some really bad reading habits. It's hard to describe. Basically I start a book where it fell open. Sometimes I start in the middle

This post has been edited by Persephone: Oct 16 2009, 01:28 AM

that's true that's true. guess my book collection is still quite small.

so we should migrate to sahara desert to save our books

that was a kinokuniya booksale. I think it was 2 years ago though. Walao! Omnibus at rm15? what warehouse sale you get that? so far all the warehouse sale I only found 1 omnibus, which is the eisenhorn.

haha. I skip to the back to read the end chapter. Then I start from the beginning. Couldn't resist knowing the result!

lol why all also game one?

cause I'm a game addict....

something to keep me in the game universe when my bro take over the gaming computer

banks - i found the omnibuses at Pearson warehouse sale. But I was very lucky and persistent. You know how in a warehouse sale they throw out truckloads of the same title? There was only one copy each in the whole of the warehouse, they were that rare.

what?!?! PEARSON!?!?! I thought they only sell educational books, that's why i didn't go. It's at October, right?

That was my exact reaction I thought I will come away with classics only. To my very pleasant surprise, they distribute Orbit, Daw, Black Library too. And Penguin have loads of nice fiction too. Now the secret is out.

I think the sale is only once a year, this is my first. I even heard it's only once every few years.

*Ominous* stay away from the omnibuses - they already have my name on them

wow - what are you doing up at 4 am?

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Added on October 21, 2009, 11:16 amOh - and you start at the ending chapter? I thought I was bad. But that would so spoil the book!

This post has been edited by Persephone: Oct 21 2009, 11:16 AM

OMG....so many distributers....

At least there are other booksales too, like Big Bad Wolf Books(The best booksale of the year!), which I think should be once a year.

Finders keepers~ Losers weepers~ HAHAAHA

Accidentally fall asleep for 3 hours after dinner. Woke up and can't sleep anymore.

It's kinda interesting as to know how things led to the end after I read the end. Though it really spoil the book Maybe I will change my habit

I will fight till the bitter end, anything for omnibuses

I missed the Big Bad Wolf sale. I gathered it was good huh? Hopefully I will hear it once the sale is on, and will definitely go. I like Times too as they got truckloads of fiction.

Haha - yeah, i tend to do it. Fall asleep for a few hours then woke up unable to sleep again. Next day suffered at work.

Changing habit? Nah, it doesnt work. All the books I tried to start at Ch1, I will lose interest quickly and it became a chore. It is like a curse. My best friend is constantly amazed how I can comprehend the book that way.

The God-Emperor shall protect me as I fight for the Omnibuses!

It's the best book sale! Almost every books at RM8 no matter the size. In fact, I bought most of the Halo and Forgotten Realms books from there. But I didn't saw any W40K books though...but buying so much books it's gonna take sometime to finish them.

I wonder if the book fall on the last page, you read from there?

i prefer throws your books and go study. all novels are shit except starcraft novel. And also programming books.

^ You, my friend, have issues. Why the sudden attack on friendly bookworms ?

Throw your books and go study ? How do you study without books ? Programming books are books to study too.

Starcraft novels are nice, but you'd be surprised that there are A LOT of books out there to cater to everyone's tastes and also generally BETTER than Starcraft novels.

I rather you not attack this thread.

don't mind him. He's a troll and a starcraft fanboy. like what fellow forumers said, "don't feed the trolls".

dude.. he is my friends and we study Computer Science together. he always bring the novels go school and read it during the class. His situation now just like a doctor study programming or a designer study chemistry. Am I wrong? haha.

He said he prefer novel over assignment summore.

This is how I deal with school. Get over it.

if I get the damn assignment done, who cares if I read novels in class. The end justifies the means after all.