tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post6865459208707166855..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Books in the future by Keren DavidUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-36318006265590782932012-11-26T11:19:51.041+00:002012-11-26T11:19:51.041+00:00Alcohol filled houses on the bookshelves! This get...Alcohol filled houses on the bookshelves! This gets better and better ... when can I come and browse? ;-)madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-28072092826666860862012-11-23T15:45:05.488+00:002012-11-23T15:45:05.488+00:00@madwippet They are Dutch houses! KLM used to give...@madwippet They are Dutch houses! KLM used to give china houses full of alcohol to business class travellers and my husband did a lot of travelling. We have two shelves full of them - most still full of the alcohol!Keren Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13121027210783177857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-73097129647670559682012-11-23T11:07:38.112+00:002012-11-23T11:07:38.112+00:00Catdownunder - you can put 'bookmarks' int...Catdownunder - you can put 'bookmarks' into a kindle, so you can very quickly find any bit you want again. You can add your own notes too.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-86201118167076957292012-11-23T10:22:36.481+00:002012-11-23T10:22:36.481+00:00Love the other interesting things sharing your she...Love the other interesting things sharing your shelves too - old London bridge appears to have set up shop along the top of one bookcase and a rocking horse duck (weird!) taken up residence on another shelf.<br />Browsing other people's shelves is fun - but what's the etiquette going to be when everything is stuffed on a Kindle? Should the host leave it casually lying around? Should the guest ask politely if they can browse through it or surreptitiously sidle over and hope not to get caught? And what a bummer if you find something you'd like to borrow - although a blessing perhaps from the host's point of view as at least books won't go walkies forever with people who fail to return them ...madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-39027901934779139292012-11-23T09:28:39.247+00:002012-11-23T09:28:39.247+00:00How I love other people's bookshelves ... that...How I love other people's bookshelves ... that moment when they go out to make the coffee and you have a browse ... bliss!JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-87926565341278720152012-11-23T06:11:12.419+00:002012-11-23T06:11:12.419+00:00You have space on your shelves! look! Over there! ...You have space on your shelves! look! Over there! there are books *leaning*.<br /><br />Seriously: we have 12k books, moved "for the sake of the books" and are currently wondering where we can fit more shelves.<br /><br />Thank you for the book rec. I wrote my thesis on Quaker relief work in the Spanish Civil War.Farah Mendlesohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951321462450109434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-70784424532627873352012-11-23T03:53:38.966+00:002012-11-23T03:53:38.966+00:00Our many bookshelves are double and triple stacked...Our many bookshelves are double and triple stacked but I can put my paw on almost anything without too much trouble. Our books get used constantly. <br />I downloaded the Kindle file so I could read Nicola Morgan's Write a Great Synopsis and a couple of other non-fiction books. Having to read books like that though infuriates me. They are tools to be used. Mine reference books are veritable hedgehogs of paper strips and I tend to flip backwards and forwards frequently, especially using a foreign language dictionary. It is just not possible to use an e-reader of any sort in the same way. I hope real books never disappear!catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.com