What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.
His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.
You are a shelf of books without the pages.
