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Hi all, happy new year!
I'm sure i've seen in a magazine somewhere a spiral bookshelf. Nearest i can find on the web is a bookworm shelf which is bendy so you can make any shape you want, an 'S' for example and it's made so the books don't fall off. Obviously : It just looks pretty good i think but its bloomin expensive, around £150. Anyone know where i can buy a 'normal' spiral bookshelf which might be cheaper?
Would add an image but not entirely sure how to do this. if an image would help, please give me an idiot's guide :-[
Thanks all.
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To put a link to a web page - preferably one with the picture on:
Copy the website address (Edit, Copy or Ctrl-C)
Then, in a reply to this post, type
Here's what it will look like, except, of course, you won't be putting different coloured bits into yours: [color=green]
I'm doing this because I want to know what a bookworm bookshelf looks like - we could do with a few hundred in this house!
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Thanks Savvy_Sue
Here goes...
Scroll down to see the three different sizes/lengths available.
Hope this works!
Carly
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Ohhh
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Hope this works!
Oh it worked!
And I want one! or two, or three, or ...
Actually they would be completely impractical in this house: what we need is those rolling stacks you find in libraries and archives! ;D
It's only $45 in the USA: see so maybe emigrating is the answer?
But I can't find anything else with a quick google in the UK. T'other half confirms he's seen something similar in a magazine, no idea where, could have been the same thing as you've found.
Would a combination of the 'tick' shaped shelves they sell very reasonably in IKEA serve your purpose? , only £4, and it's only attached to the wall at the right-angle bit so it will bend at the other end as you fill it up. (Am I making any sense?)
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....It's only $45 in the USA: see so maybe emigrating is the answer?
That's $45 for a 3D model of one for the 3D studio max package, you don't actually get a bookcase! I wondered how it was "download only".....
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Savvy sue - we have Billy bookshelves from Ikea, which can take a lot of weight.
However, one idea I've seen on lots of homemakeover shows is to have a really high shelf near the ceiling, which runs the whole way around the room, hallway, etc
That way, you could put the books you don't read often up high, and keep the book cases for your favourites?
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Savvy sue - we have Billy bookshelves from Ikea, which can take a lot of weight.
However, one idea I've seen on lots of homemakeover shows is to have a really high shelf near the ceiling, which runs the whole way around the room, hallway, etc
That way, you could put the books you don't read often up high, and keep the book cases for your favourites?
Oh we've got Billy bookshelves, and folding bookshelves packed two deep, and books in the hall, and books in the study / office, and books on the landing, and books in heaps on our bedroom floor, and books in the lounge, and books in the boys' bedrooms ... what I really need to do is get rid of a few hundred but t'other half wouldn't even let me get rid of his 20 year old Maths text books from Uni when we moved here!
What's worst is that half the time we know we've got a book but we can't find it. Recently I bought Catch 22 when I saw it second hand because I knew one of the boys would enjoy it and we could NOT find our copy!
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Savvy Sue
you are a lady after my own heart.
We have old textbooks,works of fiction, poetry history etc etc. and have about about six bookcases in the house plus loads of books in the drawers under our bed, when I pull the drawer out the blasted thing nearly collapses under the weight.
My father mutters ever time he comes round that we have far too many books but when any of my daughters have a school project I can usually find something helpful at home as they ask when the library is shut and bookshops are closed.
The look of delight on my 13 year old's face when I said she could have her very own "academic library" (large bookcase with six shelves on landing) was priceless.
Very different from the quote I heard on the bus years ago when 2 middle aged women were discussing relatives boyfriend "he reads books " in dark tone of foreboding.
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I like the way you two think!
My other half is actually getting rid of some books, so we can free the bookshelves up for my books...lol
(Before you ask, he isn't as attached to books as I am, so it isn't a big deal for him!)
Eventually we'll have to go to my parental home with an empty enough car to pick up the books I have there too
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I like the way you two think!
My other half is actually getting rid of some books, so we can free the bookshelves up for my books...lol
(Before you ask, he isn't as attached to books as I am, so it isn't a big deal for him!)
Eventually we'll have to go to my parental home with an empty enough car to pick up the books I have there too
Wow, where do I find a man prepared to give up books? Naw, wouldn't swap him really!
OK, when you go to collect your books, you also need LOTS of SMALL boxes! I find the boxes you get 5 reams of A4 copying paper in excellent and about as much as I can carry. A chap might manage a box double that size, but grown removal men blanch at anything bigger than that full of books. Get your parents collecting NOW!
We moved in several stages: I was packing books into these A4 paper boxes in one house, moving them down the road to another house for storage, then down the M4 to another temporary address, where hubby was unpacking them so I could refill the empty boxes. And so it went on, and still goes on, we still have some boxes unpacked after 5 years.
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Savvy Sue said;
Oh we've got Billy bookshelves, and folding bookshelves packed two deep, and books in the hall, and books in the study / office, and books on the landing, and books in heaps on our bedroom floor, and books in the lounge ... what I really need to do is get rid of a few hundred but t'other half wouldn't even let me get rid of his 20 year old Maths text books from Uni when we moved here!
What's worst is that half the time we know we've got a book but we can't find it.
*Glares at SS suspiciously*...... you've been living in my house and did'nt let on, eh? Or maybe I've been living in your house without realising. ;D
It's all those books, I tell you..... ;D
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;D
(Actually mods, is there any chance of more smilies? Ones that including laughing? )
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*Glares at SS suspiciously*...... you've been living in my house and did'nt let on, eh? Or maybe I've been living in your house without realising. ;D
It's all those books, I tell you..... ;D
Either is possible. I'm sure if I was in your house no-one here would miss me, maybe t'other half but he's often not here. And you could certainly be living in my house without me noticing an extra body, as long as you reported for washing up duty on a regular basis. ;D
that's not Weatherwax as in Granny, is it?
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I'm a bookworm too and have hundreds of them - much to my hubby's disgust (moan, moan, moan is all he does)!
It didn't help his moaning that when my mum died earlier this year I ended up with all her books! Eight bookshelves full
Some great books tho including a full sets of leather bound Agatha Christie and Charles Dickens.
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Is it my imagination, or have hard back books really come down in price? When I was a student, all I could afford were paperbacks - but now I can often get the hardback for less than a tenner.
So, is it because I have slightly more cash nowadays, or are they cheaper?
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I think hardback books are cheaper probably because of competion from supermarkets etc.
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I think hardback books are cheaper probably because of competion from supermarkets etc.
It's true. It's the end of price fixing for books wot done it. Can't remember what it was called, hubby will know as he used to sell them, but in the past books could only be sold at one price except in a few shops which specialised in 'remaindered' books.