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post Oct 3 2009, 04:12 PM, updated 17y ago

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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.
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So...how do you put yours?
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post Oct 4 2009, 02:10 AM

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QUOTE(icyfawkes @ Oct 3 2009, 09:21 PM)
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...sad.gif
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actually I'm a fantasy + game genre fan tongue.gif see those forgotten realms, warcraft and halo books? I really like reading about their universe biggrin.gif

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 rclxub.gif

lol.....Calvin & Hobbes collections....I only read them on The Star...really funny + naughty boy
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post Oct 6 2009, 07:15 PM

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QUOTE(redninja @ Oct 6 2009, 05:05 PM)
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.
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Where is this Daisho? I google it up, and it shows me Daisho Food which is at Subang Jaya.

QUOTE(tender @ Oct 6 2009, 06:59 PM)
try those plastic boxes they sell in hypermarts. i store like Banks, and they all turned yellow over the years.
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if that's the case I better go and buy a plastic box ASAP! A few of my books are becoming "Yellow Pages" like.
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post Oct 7 2009, 06:16 PM

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QUOTE(redninja @ Oct 7 2009, 11:30 AM)
Yep is good suggestion. Billy from Ikea is good if you have the space. Dust still does get in though.
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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.
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post Oct 9 2009, 01:37 AM

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QUOTE(ngwinnie @ Oct 8 2009, 11:45 PM)
boxes, lots of boxes

got them from stationary shops
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cardboard boxes? seems fragile to me hmm.gif

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

So here's my new pictures:
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stuff it into my wardrobe to save space tongue.gif
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next time I get a bigger room I'm gonna a Billy bookcase!
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post Oct 15 2009, 04:13 PM

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QUOTE(ray2ray @ Oct 15 2009, 10:59 AM)
a fellow halo book fan i see, +1!  biggrin.gif

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the 1 man army theme sounds cool to me and I like the halo universe too tongue.gif
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post Oct 15 2009, 09:42 PM

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sweat.gif then it's gonna be hard then, finding back all the books
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post Oct 16 2009, 12:39 AM

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QUOTE(Persephone @ Oct 15 2009, 11:36 PM)
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.
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haha biggrin.gif I bought it for rm20 during a booksale. A nice read. I'm getting Ravenor after I finish my other books.

blink.gif 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 shocking.gif I think I'm gonna cross my fingers with the plastic container too.
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post Oct 16 2009, 12:25 PM

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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 tongue.gif

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!
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post Oct 16 2009, 06:56 PM

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cause I'm a game addict.... drool.gif

something to keep me in the game universe when my bro take over the gaming computer whistling.gif
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post Oct 21 2009, 03:49 AM

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QUOTE(Persephone @ Oct 21 2009, 01:03 AM)
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. smile.gif
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what?!?! PEARSON!?!?! I thought they only sell educational books, that's why i didn't go. It's at October, right?
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post Oct 21 2009, 01:06 PM

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QUOTE(Persephone @ Oct 21 2009, 11:08 AM)
That was my exact reaction  smile.gif 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  icon_rolleyes.gif

wow - what are you doing up at 4 am?


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!
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OMG....so many distributers.... cry.gif cry.gif

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 tongue.gif Maybe I will change my habit
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post Oct 23 2009, 01:30 AM

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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? tongue.gif
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post Oct 25 2009, 01:06 AM

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QUOTE(Helldiver @ Oct 24 2009, 11:21 PM)
^ 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.
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don't mind him. He's a troll and a starcraft fanboy. like what fellow forumers said, "don't feed the trolls".
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post Oct 25 2009, 01:22 AM

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QUOTE(ubeyou @ Oct 25 2009, 01:12 AM)
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.  tongue.gif
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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.

 

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