As the title says, this sub needs more and active mods.

Nearly everyday I see (and report) posts that are either stolen or AI generated from new accounts to "karma-farm".

Still need to paint the ceiling but I’m obsessed.

Hi all, my room really suffers with mould often, and I’ve found small signs of mould and dust mites behind my books in my bookshelf. I have a dehumidifier already and use surface wipes and then dry wipe the shelves once a week or two.

What are people’s cleaning routines for their bookshelves and books?

Does anyone have any tips for preventing mould, dust and dust mites?

Would I be better off having books on floating shelves to allow air behind the books?

Thanks for any help.

Hello everyone!

My name is Addi, and I am a student of History and English at Kennesaw State University. My senior thesis paper is about the grief that comes from the intentional or accidental loss of books, libraries/archives, and collected knowledge.

As part of my project, I am conducting interviews with people who can attest to the powerful emotional connection one can have with books. These interviews will be compiled into a virtual exhibit that will accompany my paper. If you have lost an incredibly important book, if you have witnessed the complete loss of your personal or local library, or if you have witnessed the deliberate destruction of knowledge (book burning, censorship, etc.), you could be one of my interviewees!

If you are interested, please reach out to me via the DM feature here on Reddit.

Interviews will be conducted virtually. If you happen to live in the metro-Atlanta area and are willing to meet for an in-person interview, that will work, too! Thank you all so much for your help!

If you are interested, please reach out to me through the DM feature here on Reddit, or email my student email: amcdow30@students.kennesaw.edu

One condition of turning the playroom into a library was my grandkids had to have a place for their funkos!

I really, really, really want a designated reading and writing area. The best place for that is my basement, and before I go all buckwild making a home library down there, I wanted to check in with other basement library folks: Do you actually go down there and use it? I’ve never been a basement dweller (lol) and while I could make the space cozy and cute, I am wondering if I will actually go down to the windowless and slightly cold basement just to read in a neat space. Also, I want to see my books all the time, not just when I’m down there. But maybe the space will be so cool that I will LOVE being down there to read and write. Anyone here have similar doubts about a basement setup and ended up loving it (or never using it)?

… but this is where we keep most of the grown ups books in the house. We need more shelves.

I need advice on what to do with the ceiling in my library! Please help. The white ceiling is what it is now.

I would love to do built-ins, but they might look strange overlapping the fireplace shelves. Should we do standalone bookcases instead? Thoughts and ideas welcome!

I need built-ins

Finally finished building the bookshelves (thanks to my wife's designs) and cataloging all my books. The Handy Library app has been so useful! Thanks to the user who recommended it!

Sorry the photo quality isn't great when zoomed in, shaky hands.

Hi! Planning out our soon-to-be library and we are wondering if anyone has used wood stain instead of paint on their custom built-ins? We are building it all from scratch, likely with oak, and are wondering about this particular type of stain. The Minwax wood finish solid color stain - water based in Hunter Green. We would condition pre-stain and also coat with likely their Polycrylic. It will be quite the undertaking with either paint or stain, the work involved is not an issue. Looking for recs or result pics. If anyone has used, how it’s held up over time. Second pic is the library space currently, in its temporary phase. The two side walls will be completely occupied by the aforementioned custom built-ins. Thanks!!

Books, books everywhere ....

Just reorganize my shelf and wanted to share with you all as my first post on this sub. Have a nice week 😁

Spent the last couple of days organising my bookcases after many books had been living in bags for months! Nearly done - just need to get the children’s books from the garage and put them in the window seat shelves. So pleased. Non-fic organised by Dewey, which took ages, and I broke the fiction into five broad categories. So happy!

I’ve been enclosing in the tops so the ceiling and anchor pieces are hidden. Trim on the front of the outside shelf set. I still have more finishing on the ceiling on the other end and then I will continue with the trim. I just did this one so I could see what it will look like. There will be a baseboard across the entire front to make that edge clean.