bookshelf porn

I'm sure that most of y'all are aware of this site but just in case,

http://bookshelfporn.com/

There are a couple more that are quite similar:

http://bookshelvesandlatefees.tumblr.com/archive
http://teachingliteracy.tumblr.com/archive
http://bookshelves.tumblr.com/archive

Man, I love looking at full bookcases!

Bookmarked!

Lovely!

#2 thanks for the additional sites.

Blocked: Sex/porn

*sigh*

*snort* Really? Tumblr is blocked for sex/porn? I mean, I suppose, but I mostly look at cute animal pictures and pretty clothes!

The link in the first post. On wanderingwifi currently. They're usually pretty good about who they block but not in this case I guess. I do know though that they do not unblock upon request. One of my clients runs an "What's happening in the adult industry" blog that they block even though there's no nudity or language or um action if you catch my meaning and I've asked them to unblock it a couple of times now.

Kind of curious to see if the library has it blocked. They have weird blocking. They'll block what's known as a 0 day security site where security problems with software are announced but yet most torrent sites and many adult sites are wide open.

Oh, I forgot about the link in the first post. Yeah, that does make more sense, although so-and-so-porn is being used more and more often for not-actual-porn these days. Not that I've ever had much faith in those blocking programs.

Found this page today -
http://cindysbookclub.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html

Thanks for the link. Droolworthy

Roger Ebert tweeted this link today of book stores in re-purposed accommodation.

Not a bookstore, but a new library converted from an abandonned Walmart:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/former-walmart-becomes-a-designer-s-dream-librar...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169498/McAllen-Public-Library-Revealed-...

Gorgeous- so spacious and clean. They deserve that design award.

http://mymodernmet.com/optical-illusion-mirrored-flooring/

I'm still puzzling over why the books don't fall out of the higher shelves in the entrance, but it's pretty impressive, though.

>15 alaudacorax: In the second picture you can see transparent half-fronts to the shelves which must keep things in place. I don't suppose much browsing goes on in the higher shelves, though.

>16 abbottthomas:: Oh lord, that was unobservant of me - I was staring so hard at the higher shelves ... didn't look at the sides.

ETA - ... and now I've seen them, they're more and more obvious.

>15 alaudacorax: That's so amazing. It's an excellent optical illusion, you really have to look to see that it isn't circular.

Thanks!

And still another link: https://www.reddit.com/r/bookshelf/top/.

Architectural Digest / A Surreal New Bookstore Has Just Opened in China (Oct. 2020)
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/surreal-new-bookstore-opened-china

A Chengdu book shop going full-on Escher over two floors.

Chengdu? Never heard of it? I certainly haven't knowingly clocked it. Shame on me: Berlin (population: 4.4m), New York (8.8m), London (9.9m), Paris (10.7m.), São Paulo (12.4, largest in the Americas), Lagos (15m, largest in Africa), Chengdu (21m, capital of Sichuan). Must try harder.

>22 Cynfelyn:

I seriously don't know what I think of that. It's a bit mind-boggling ...

It's cool looking, but I think it might be overwhelming in person.

I could certainly spend days in there, both browsing books and admiring the mind-boggling design

>25 SandraArdnas: 80 000 books doesn’t sound like much for a big bookshop. Most of the books in the photos are trompe l’oeil. Given that at least 80% of the real books are going to be in Chinese and the rest very mainstream, you would probably be browsed-out fairly quickly. (Unless you read Chinese)

>26 thorold: Pretty sure they house in there some art, design and architecture books and other illustrated goodies, so even in Chinese I'd browse for days. I can pretty much spend an eternity browsing pretty much any selection of books for one reason or another :)

Beautiful and amazing. But I can't help but think that customers like my mom, who has bad knees and uses a shillelagh, wouldn't be able to make use of much of it.

The images of the Chinese bookstore (sometimes called a library) have been making the rounds for a year or a couple. Anything above shoulder height is book spines on what is effectively wallpaper. It is a very pretty cheat. Many are taken in by it without looking at one of the images closely in high resolution.

Chinese bookstore

James

>28 mstrust: If your mother carries a shillelagh about, she's someone I'd not want to meet in a dark alley, never mind a bookshop. Does she wear brass knuckles as well? you know, for her heh heh *arthritis*?

I believe hitting someone with her shillelagh would bring her true joy. And yes, she does own brass knuckles, or "knucks" as she calls them. Great-grandma wore them too. I come from mean women :-D

>29 Keeline: Oh, you're right. The top half is mirrored and, if you look below the bannister on the left, you can see where the real shelves end and the wallpaper begins.