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Margaret Powling

What a great way to spend a cold Bank Holiday Monday, sorting books! I'm the book person here (Himself does most other jobs but leaves the bookshelves to me!) but it's a tiring job which I don't enter into lightly! I have to be in the mood and that is usually when I lose patience with the piles which are constantly toppling over and I know that a drastic 'weed' is necessary once more. Unlike yourself, I don't have any plays and only a little poetry (not overfond of poetry, never have been, much preferring prose and I tend to think that much modern poetry has simply been set out prettily on a page to look effective. Now I'm waiting to be shot down in pieces as being a total philistine!) Isn't it interesting, though, looking at someone else's bookshelves? When I buy the monthly style glossies and see bookshelves, I get out my magnifying glass, turn the page sideways, and read the titles! I wonder who else does this?

rosie

What a lovely way to spend a cold day! I think we need to follow suit at my house: poetry is languishing in the hallway (with the African fiction), contemporary British fiction is in the attic (suspect terribly academic husband is embarassed by my enjoyment of popular fiction) and art books are scattered through 4 rooms...

Fiberjoy

Waving hand at the back: Yes, I scrutinize pictures for the titles on other's shelves.

In February we made a trip to Ikea and bought a couple more Billy bookcases. A huge drawback is the fixed middle shelf spot.

R J Keefe

It is so good finally to have reached the SECOND volume of the Loeb Virgil. (And I thought I was so clever, getting out of having to read the Aeneid in school!)

Mark Thwaite

"When I ... see bookshelves, I get out my magnifying glass, turn the page sideways, and read the titles!"

Yup: don't worry Margaret, you most certainly aren't the only one, I do this too.

If I see a picture of a bookshelf -- indeed, if I see someone reading on a bus or a tube -- I have to know!!

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