Pictures of your personal libraries or bookshelves

[docnet]

I love seeing other people's libraries (or bookshelves) because they give me inspiration to plan my dream library, and books ware what make a home feel like home. Here is my very humble "library" in my college dorm room. Please, share pictures of your personal libraries or other libraries that you like. Please post as many pictures as you like!

 

[jedishrfu]

I’m sure your library will grow beyond these few books and expand into many other areas of interest beyond physics and biology.

My own library covers a range of interests from physics to martial arts to eastern philosophy to computer science as well as science fiction/fantasy and just some great classical books like Sherlock Holmes and Dulaires Greek Mythology to name a few.

 

[mcastillo356]

I'm very proud of my bookshelf, but not my book collection.

Linear algebra, on the other side Newtonan physics... very basic

 

[docnet]

I’m sure your library will grow beyond these few books and expand into many other areas of interest beyond physics and biology.

My own library covers a range of interests from physics to martial arts to eastern philosophy to computer science as well as science fiction/fantasy and just some great classical books like Sherlock Holmes and Dulaires Greek Mythology to name a few.

pictures please!?

 

[jrmichler]

General fiction, natural resources, motor vehicles. About six shelves are for my wife's books, the rest are mine.

Mostly engineering books.

I read instead of watching television, and the books just sort of seem to accumulate.

 

[BillTre]

I used to have lots of books on shelves, but a few years ago I downsized and probably got rid of ~90%. Now my remaining books are not well organized on shelves.

Instead, I now have topic specific piles of books in various places.
Here is a pile covering about half of my origin of life project:

Interestingly, I have at least three books with the name "What is Life?".
I consider about 50% of these books to be really good.

 

[nsaspook]

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One shelf in the den.

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Shop desk shelf.

 

[berkeman]

One shelf in the den.

Respect! Thank you for your service.

 

[romsofia]

The Indian/Biology books are mainly my roommate's. Excuse the lamp placement, our apartment is small!

 

[docnet]

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The Indian/Biology books are mainly my roommate's. Excuse the lamp placement, our apartment is small!

chemistry, biology, gravitation ... wow

 

[romsofia]

chemistry, biology, gravitation ... wow

Well, he is doing a PhD in molecular biology, while I'm doing one in physics. My thesis is dealing with gravitational waves/binary black holes, and I'm not the best relativist in the world, so getting perspectives from multiple books has helped me. I prefer tangible books over digital, so I had to shell out some cash since I was unable to access my school library during Covid : ^(

 

[Hamiltonian]

It ain't much, but it's honest work.

 

[fluidistic]

I think there was at least one old thread regarding this topic.
I'm genuinely curious about @Vanadium 50 's bookshelf.

 

[fluidistic]

Here is mine. I have other books hanging around since I don't have enough space there.

 

[Dr Transport]

Part of my collection

 

[fluidistic]

Part of my collection

Funny how I can spot my "Principles of Optics" in your collection.
Idem with "The selfish gene" in the first post. Same books, same edition, etc.

 

[Dr Transport]

Funny how I can spot my "Principles of Optics" in your collection.
Idem with "The selfish gene" in the first post. Same books, same edition, etc.

Autographed by Emil Wolf also...

 

[fluidistic]

Autographed by Emil Wolf also...

Not a small detail to be overlooked :) Nice.

 

[pinball1970]

I love seeing other people's libraries (or bookshelves) because they give me inspiration to plan my dream library, and books ware what make a home feel like home. Here is my very humble "library" in my college dorm room. Please, share pictures of your personal libraries or other libraries that you like. Please post as many pictures as you like!

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I expected more replies to this. My books have been in a state of transition so I decided organise them for an image. I ended up reading a fair bit then fell asleep. I will get round to it! Great idea for a thread.

 

[Mayhem]

University has sucked all the joy of leisure reading for me, so my bookshelf mainly consists of classics that I haven't read, which total to a price that is 1-2 mandatory textbooks.

 

[docnet]

I expected more replies to this. My books have been in a state of transition so I decided organise them for an image. I ended up reading a fair bit then fell asleep. I will get round to it! Great idea for a thread.

i'm surprised that there are not more replies as well. I expected that there are members who have quite the collection of books.

 

[Tom.G]

i'm surprised that there are not more replies as well. I expected that there are members who have quite the collection of books.

We're too busy reading to dig the camera out of the closet!

 

[jedishrfu]

there's always a potential security problem in showing any photo online. Some of us won't risk that exposure.

There’s been cases where someone unwittingly posted a cubical photo and in the background we’re their accounts and passwords on a post it note.

it’s hard to imagine how someone with malice might use a photo of a library but it might be a gateway to identity theft Or some other social engineering scheme.

 

[docnet]

how do you all feel about what's the ideal size of a home library? is there a point where a home library is too large to have a personal feeling? I would love to have a home library that takes up a medium sized room in a home, and that has enough sitting space for 3-4 people, i.e.

 

[ergospherical]

It'd be interesting to know the approximate proportion of number of pages read to total number of pages in the library. I can't recall the last time that I read a physics book end-to-end; in most cases I only need to look at one or two chapters. :)

 

[pinball1970]

It'd be interesting to know the approximate proportion of number of pages read to total number of pages in the library. I can't recall the last time that I read a physics book end-to-end; in most cases I only need to look at one or two chapters. :)

Good point. I use mine as reference books. Who sits down with 'GENES VIII' 958 pages, on a Sunday afternoon and says, 'Right, let's break the back of this bad boy.'

 

[pinball1970]

I had to find it, turns out I only have GENES V

 

[jedishrfu]

Mine is pretty low especially in later years where I’m lucky if I have the time to read and don’t fall asleep from the effort.

 

[fluidistic]

there's always a potential security problem in showing any photo online. Some of us won't risk that exposure.

There’s been cases where someone unwittingly posted a cubical photo and in the background we’re their accounts and passwords on a post it note.

it’s hard to imagine how someone with malice might use a photo of a library but it might be a gateway to identity theft Or some other social engineering scheme.

Now that I think of it, there might be some gps coordinates in the metadata of the picture... Hell! I removed the picture I posted :( just in case...