on books, but not a review

Reposted from a friend's commentary, because.

What sort of illiterate only has one bookshelf?

We have a room designated as the library, like everyone else who can afford the space separate from the bedroom. Then we have the shelves next to the bed, and the the bookcase not quite so near the bed but in the bedroom. The computer room has a bookcase. The living room has four, plus endtables with space underneath (filled with books, of course). One of our bathrooms does not contain books -- it's only a meter away from a bookshelf outside it. The sewing room/guest room has two full cases as well, plus overflow to the nightstand.

If there are no books on the stairs, it's only because we have recently cleaned up. By recent I mean "just finished".

The number of unread books in the house is never more than the total of our most recent trip to the library (I love interlibrary loan; if only I could convince them to drop off books at my house, I could build a book depository just outside...) plus about ten.

I caught my four year old reading this morning. He was standing next to the bed, a book splayed out in front of him, and he was quietly saying the words as he read them. This morning I started reading Doc Smith's _Triplanetary_ to him, starting with chapter 7 where the space liner is hijacked by interplanetary pirates. My two year old wakes up and demands to be read to, first thing.

Who has time to organize? If you can't memorize the locations of four or five thousand books in two dozen locations, what sort of memory do you have? Pah!

on books, but not a review

Reposted from a friend's commentary, because.

What sort of illiterate only has one bookshelf?

We have a room designated as the library, like everyone else who can afford the space separate from the bedroom. Then we have the shelves next to the bed, and the the bookcase not quite so near the bed but in the bedroom. The computer room has a bookcase. The living room has four, plus endtables with space underneath (filled with books, of course). One of our bathrooms does not contain books -- it's only a meter away from a bookshelf outside it. The sewing room/guest room has two full cases as well, plus overflow to the nightstand.

If there are no books on the stairs, it's only because we have recently cleaned up. By recent I mean "just finished".

The number of unread books in the house is never more than the total of our most recent trip to the library (I love interlibrary loan; if only I could convince them to drop off books at my house, I could build a book depository just outside...) plus about ten.

I caught my four year old reading this morning. He was standing next to the bed, a book splayed out in front of him, and he was quietly saying the words as he read them. This morning I started reading Doc Smith's _Triplanetary_ to him, starting with chapter 7 where the space liner is hijacked by interplanetary pirates. My two year old wakes up and demands to be read to, first thing.

Who has time to organize? If you can't memorize the locations of four or five thousand books in two dozen locations, what sort of memory do you have? Pah!