I really liked this NOTE and, shamelessly, I agree with his interviewees.
Here ... my library is pine and customized. No pine cheaper but not the best. It was what we could ... It occupies an entire wall of my workplace, my back (or behind my back I'm never sure with that ...). In front of me there are only a couple of shelves with books I wrote, and another shelf above my desk light in my room, save those who are being read or being read.
obsessively neat and I recognize that it, of course, for my library as well as for my papers and files.
a couple of years ago, when repaint the apartment and had to move the library back and forth, I discovered that books, when removed from the shelves, reproduce dramatically. Or lying horizontally on either side take up much more space than vertical. And you always miss a book between his colleagues and never reappears. That is, we know it's there, has not left home. We saw to remove the shelf, but never returns. It hides among other books, mutates lid, deslee into oblivion.
My library, like any self-respecting library, following a personal nature. For example, American shelf, but not for work English in general. Share Shelf with Borges Cortázar and García Márquez. The books I read during my pregnancies have been coupled with books on health and sexuality, and everything that has to do with the human body, but not with those of disability, which for obvious reasons have their own shelf. Sci-fi science-fiction poetry poetry, anagrams Anagram and Tusquets with Tusquets by plastic issues. Center: as needed (dictionaries) or wanted. In the suburbs, the marginal, forgotten, disowned. I have a bookshelf for books that I have given it in any way allow you to join their own, and I have a mental shelf for which I paid and I returned.
Each rack has one or two ornaments, no more to not compromise the search for books. I have a tiny collection of tiny owls and typewriters.
The books I buy I, it is rare that someone gave me books. And unless you know that this book is part of my life, I read them very carefully, trying not to open the back lot because if I do not like, change it for another, read and everything. Books are expensive and take up space, I can not afford to stay with books that I read, though in my library there are many who have never read. But how different is that ... what different.
But if the book catches me if I know it will be my first thing I do is write my name on the front page. Name and month and year that I bought. Of course, if some day this book is going home, for whatever reason (I've written about books that I sold to buy others), it is anonymously. If I can not erase my name, directly remove the first blank page.
I encourage you to highlight books, writing in the margins (always in pencil, except the last week I was reading in the club, I ran out of mine had a spare pen and not-unusual for me, and, compared to despair of losing that paragraph, scored with pencil. Yes, with a Fisher Space Pen, black stroke average). Nor do I have much trouble bending the edge of the page if I have no pointing (I keep pointing that I like and choose what I use for each book.)
buy more books I read and placed them on the shelf for future reading. And presto. From this year I absolutely refuse to lend more books. Nor stolen books. I've only been to one in particular, a family, to save from oblivion.
Sometimes I just look at my library as if it were a landscape that relaxes me, it gives me pleasure. I walk my view on their backs and remember each reading, a character there, an idea here. I promise to reread (my ideal is to spend re-reading my old books).
I have no book more important than another, any first edition, no luxury, no treasure. My oldest book is completely destroyed a copy of the "Thousand and One Nights, 1909, I found in a chest in the storage room of my grandparents and I always promised but never occupy binding.
And I think that's all. Those who want to tell you how your library, Biévène be. I always loved this from snooping in libraries outside and find out the tricks of others to write.
Last book read: "The man with the foot-bats" Sandra Siemens.
Next book to read: "The cemetery of Prague" by Umberto Eco
special Book of the Year: "Life in muted" by David Lodge.
inspiring book of the year: "No end to the books" by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrère. Book
read as children: "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke. Chiche
player of the year: The Nook (which already has charged almost a hundred books!).
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