30,000 volumes in one house, 20,000 in another. Oh, and he's on the record as saying that too often visitors admire the number and never think about the possibilities inherent in discovering something new in a book not yet read.
I like that view, especially when I see so many people complaining about their "to be read" piles being more than they could manage in a year. I'd hate to be out of new discoveries to read.
I like that view, especially when I see so many people complaining about their "to be read" piles being more than they could manage in a year. I'd hate to be out of new discoveries to read.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
So, I've been thinking too small (regarding dreams of a small library room one day)
- 23/08/2010 03:46:29 PM
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My dream house is where every wall is covered by a bookshelf 
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- 23/08/2010 04:03:13 PM
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- 23/08/2010 04:03:13 PM
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I've always wanted one of those rolling library ladders *NM*
- 23/08/2010 04:59:43 PM
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When I saw that...
- 23/08/2010 05:11:00 PM
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Re: When I saw that...
- 23/08/2010 05:12:23 PM
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In the sense...
- 23/08/2010 05:14:55 PM
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I don't imagine it's all that expensive, while you're building a library anyway...
- 23/08/2010 05:16:57 PM
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Well, they did take out the second story floor to make it an open two story room...
- 23/08/2010 05:21:43 PM
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Have you ever seen Umberto Eco's library? 
- 23/08/2010 11:34:42 PM
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