How do you live with books? It's not always as easy as it may seem. Books take up space; they sometimes need to be repaired; and how do you find the one you want out of the many on your shelves? These books offer recommendations on how to live with books, from finding books you want to buy, and repairing the books you already have to organizing your books. Living with books isn't always as easy as putting them on any old shelf. Read more about it!
1. At Home with Books: How Book Lovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
by Caroline Seebohm, Estelle Ellis, and Christopher Simon Sykes. Crown Publishing Group. From the publisher: "'At Home with Books' is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting, and shelving."
2. Living with Books
by Alan Powers. Bay Soma Publishing. From the publisher: "You read them, own them, collect them, even horde them, and your quickly diminishing bookshelf space demands that you find new and creative ways to store and display them. 'Living with Books' addresses all the challenges and joys of a home masquerading as a library, from simple shelving and presentation to the use of books as structural elements and furniture."3. Home Library System
by Kathie Coblentz. Running Press Book Publishers. "This comprehensive kit draws upon the expertise of one of the world's greatest libraries, the only facility of its kind with both world-class research and circulating collections. It includes a CD containing custom software to organize and record your book collection by title, author, subject, location on your bookshelf, and numerous additional useful categories."4. The Booklover's Repair Kit: First Aid for Home Libraries
by Estelle Ellis, Douglas Lee, and Wilton Wiggins. Knopf. From the publisher: "Every booklover knows the feeling when a favorite book is damaged: by water, a ripped dust jacket, a loose page. To throw the book out is unthinkable! The damage isn't serious enough for professional attention, but you don't want to risk further damage. What do you do?"5. Passion for Books
by Harold Rabinowitz (Editor), and Rob Kaplan (Editor). Crown Publishing. From the publisher: "'A Passion for Books' is a collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons on the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books."6. A Passion for Books
by Dale Salwak (Editor). Palgrave. From the publisher: "A Passion for Books is intended as both a celebration of the value and importance of reading and a spirited defence against the many gloomy voices in our so-called electronic age who say the book will soon be obsolete."7. Booking Pleasures
by Jack Matthews. Ohio University Press. From the publisher: "Matthews explores the collecting of old dictionaries, whose definitions can be read as a sort of poetry; an 1840s rhyming book once used as a mnemonic tool for small children; and the wildly scrawled annotations of an exuberant painter in a battered copy of Thomas Hart Benton's 'An Artist in America.'"8. The Books in My Life
by Colin Wilson. Hampton Roads Publishing. From the publisher: "Wilson, who shares his home with over 20,000 books, pinpoints the books that have made a difference in his life and challenged him to learn."9. Booknotes: The Booklover's Organizer
by Marilyn McDonald. Jackson Creek Press. From the publisher: "Booklovers make great company. They share exciting ideas and broaden realities. They also eagerly pass on favorite books and authors. More than once, I have jotted on the back of an envelope or a somewhat dampened napkin the titles and authors that inspired a bookloving friend..."10. Where Inspiration Lives: Writers, Artists, and Their Creative Places
by Aaron Kenedi. New World Library. From the publisher: "Many writers and artists are associated with a particular place - a home that helps them create, a refuge that feeds their work... Filled with 50 intimate four-color photos and paintings, this coffee-table book explores the sanctuaries of these and seven other creators: Henry Miller, Peter Matthiessen, Larry McMurtry, Richard Diebenkorn, Terry McMillan, Henry David Thoreau, and Eudora Welty."