We’ve seen photos of some interesting bookends in our time, but this is a first for us: a set of bookends for an entire bookcase!
Leave it to enthusiastic artists of Europe’s the rococo era to come up with such an ornament!
This creation can be found in Bavaria’s Abbey of Wadsassen, and was installed during the 1820’s.
Found at the Facebook page of Ancient Wonders of Archeology, Art History, and Architecture, February 8, 2022
Mesmerizing, that’s what this is.
And, OK, maybe it’s really the wallpaper rather than the bookshelf/bookshelves that is/are so beautiful, but still.
Found at The Bookcase Project’s Facebook page (February 17, 2021)
When the Covid-19 pandemic pushed so many people into working from home, the number of interviews and presentations filmed in people’s homes – via the cameras connected to their home computers or cell phones – grew astronomically.
Suddenly, it became important for interviewees (experts, reporters, politicians, etc.) to consider the effect the background for their interviews might have on their credibility. Bookcases – rather than, say, a blank wall – have become de rigeur for most talking heads these days.
Bookshelves have always figured as status-markers for some people; in the Internet Age, they also function, for some viewers anyway, as credibility-enhancers – or credibility-deflators.
Amanda Hess at the New York Times posted yesterday her story reviewing the various permutations of this Zoom-era phenomenon. Read Hess’s fascinating (and link-filled) analysis here.
Thanks to librarian colleague Karen Skellie for alerting me to this article
We agree with John Warner, aka the Chicago Tribune’s “Biblioracle,” that there is only one wrong way to organize your books. And this is it.
Found at The BookCase Project via Facebook
3/25/18 Postscript: Here’s a similar plea not to do this to your bookshelves.
Found at Bookstr
Gail Sisolak, who writes the delightful (if rather cat-photo-heavy) blog Wrote Trips, posted this photo on her Facebook page; I don’t know where she found it.
But isn’t it wonderful?
Apartment Therapy searched its archives and found these photos of ten bizarre-looking bookcases.
Some of these bookshelves are as expensive as they are unusual. The bookcase pictured above cost $860. Think how many books that much money would buy!
Found at Apartment Therapy’s Facebook page
Some of these 24 ideas posted by BuzzFeed for shelving books at home have been posted before, some are downright dreadful-looking, and all of them look fairly pricey. But – hey – there’s no harm in looking, right? Maybe you could adapt one or more of these ideas in a more affordable form?
Found on BuzzFeed’s Facebook page
We’ve seen other incarnations of this idea, but it’s still such a clever, do-able, and inexpensive idea – especially for a kiddie’s room – that we’re reposting it again.
Found at Atlanta-based retired librian Karen Skellie’s Facebook page
Posted to Facebook on 1/11/12 by Missoula, Montana-based librarian Kimberly Beatty (aka The Goodwill Librarian)
There weren’t any books on this contraption when this photo was taken, but there could’ve been!
Found at Cool Things
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