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Not on my bookshelf (a physical thing, where I like to display physical things). Books are not just "data", but have an aesthetic appeal (especially hard backs
by alphadevx 11y ago
Not on my bookshelf (a physical thing, where I like to display physical things). Books are not just "data", but have an aesthetic appeal (especially hard backs) that a screen will never replace for many of us.
- Paul_S 11y agoWhich is why fake books are a real thing you can buy.
- ashark 11y agoI arrange mine chronologically by author's first major work (or rough date of the first work in it in the case of collections, like Lichtheim's Ancient Egyptian Literature) so my very shelves are didactic. Even if I can't tell you exactly when a book was written I can probably imagine where it is on the shelves and pin it down to "after Fielding, before Dickens... after but very near Austen, I think". Can't really do that with e-books. Even if you set up your collection to be displayed that way, you're not going to look at it several times every day as you move around your house. Won't be effective—probably just annoying. [EDIT] slackism for italicizing to HNism.
- sevensor 11y agoPlus, shelves have two (possibly three) dimensions, so you can have organization running vertically and horizontally. The third dimension is into the bookshelf, if you have a bunch of double-shelved paperbacks. I have Jurassic Park shelved next to Frankenstein, with Tolkein up and to the right. The Lord of the Rings is in front of The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and Unfinished Tales.
- cableshaft 11y agoI've been wanting to look into a digital picture frame for this very reason, to have it cycle through some of my interests that I no longer have a physical copy of, for when company is around.