Bookshelf Porn

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by wglb • 14 years ago

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wmat• 14 years ago

Thanks for posting this! As a lover of books, these photos are great.

hnriot• 14 years ago

How is this tumblr any different from just doing a google image search?

https://www.google.com/search?q=bookshelf&hl=en&safe...

i don't see the point of it. I realize that there's a tumblr for everything, but i fail to see the value in this on hn.

kreutz• 14 years ago

Buzzkill..

marksoper• 14 years ago

The difference is that the Tumblr page was posted as a Hacker News article and the Google image link was posted as a Hacker News comment.

RutZap• 14 years ago

The images are bigger on the tumblr :) ... and if this wasn't posted on Hacker News... I guess I wouldn't have googled "bookshelf" and I wouldn't have seen the images.. which is sad because I spent some pleasant and inspiring 10 minutes browsing the website and I've got some cool new ideas to apply to my bookcase...

Also... it's value on hn is that it also sparked a small discussion about having books/bookcases/bookshelves in your house or having a Kindle....... a google search would't have done that

dsl• 14 years ago

Unfortunately this is not what I expected...

jontas3• 14 years ago

Seeing this makes me a bit wistful.. it used to be if I walked into someone's home and didn't see shelves full of books, my impression of that person was forever changed.

Now, my home has no shelves full of books. All my (dead tree) books are in storage and I just have a kindle.

I still read as much as always, but I feel as if a certain degree of intellectualism is lost. No longer can someone look at my shelves and say "oh, I loved this book" and spark a nice literary discussion.

I should add, however, I am probably one of the few regular users of goodreads.com, though it is hardly a replacement (and I've only got one or two friends).

petercooper• 14 years ago

Now, my home has no shelves full of books. All my (dead tree) books are in storage and I just have a kindle.

Which in its own way may lead some visitors to get an impression of your reading tastes too :-)

The majority of books I own either aren't on the Kindle or couldn't usefully be on the Kindle in its current form (most TASCHEN books, megasets like Modernist Cuisine, almost everything in large formats, atlases, Edward Tufte books, art and design annuals, anything with even the barest flare of graphic design..)

jontas3• 14 years ago

Which in its own way may lead some visitors to get an impression of your reading tastes too :-)

Oh I know, that is exactly what I meant. I fear the conclusions people might draw when the only reading material they see in my house are my girlfriend's Us Weeklys.

GFKjunior• 14 years ago

Your first line still rings true to me, it also reminds me of a quote.

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!” ― John Waters

Though I remember reading a much more eloquent version of that quote somewhere this is all google brought up.

jontas3• 14 years ago

John Waters has written some great books--I read an autobiography of his years ago called Shock Value and some of its hilarity is still with me.

mturmon• 14 years ago

Same here, ditto for records and CDs. Some of the books (especially art books) are still on shelves, but the fiction has really taken a beating.

egwynn• 14 years ago

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