Well it turns out there aren't a lot of books on mine!:)

I commented on a Sagan remark earlier, over on NC, and ended up staring at my bookshelf. It's not a real bookshelf 'cause my stuff is divided between two houses and a storage space, but it does have a few things that escaped ending up in boxes. Anyway, I'll start with the books:

- Clarke & Niven (well this IS the SETI café)
- Dawkins
- Twain, Doyle & Melville
- an Ellroy
- a Murakami & a Palahniuk (both gifts, Murakami is unread)
- SUPERFREAKONOMICS
- Kitchen Confidential (highly recommended btw)
- Over a dozen Lonely Planet guides
- Half a dozen TASCHEN books
- a few old cookbooks
- A few Time/Life and National Geographic books
- a book on Beatles Gear and another by Electra Records' Jac Holzman
- a Schumacher biography (Hilton)
- a Kate Moss picture book called kate :)
- over a dozen old French PHOTO and a couple old What Hi-Fi's
- there really is a Playboy special issue that I honestly do have a good explanation for!
- lots of dust (a particle unknown to those of you in the UK)

and also

- My beloved (yet unplugged) Technics SL-1210MK2 turntable
- An early 80s Technics amp with VU meters (custom painted candy-apple red) - also unplugged unfortunately
- a busted up Garfield landline phone
- A few DVDs: Cosmos box-set, The Work of Michel Gondry, Matrix Reloaded (I'll happily mail this to anybody that might want it. I'll even put out for the postage), Rocky (!) and Clerks. Anyone who has seen that last film and didn't like it then you should know, we are never EVER gonna be friends! No really.
- a few carcasses I found over the years: a dried-up sea-horse, a beetle with a small horn and an oblong (yeah, I haven't figured that one out yet) sea urchin shell.
- An old, empty gold-colored Lavazza can
- One Hawaiian STARBUCKS tumbler & one generic
- A mini porcelain Gaudí lizard
- A Playstation 2 motherboard and a Tomb Raider PSP disc
- 2 pictures of me and my fiancée
- A picture of me and one of my best friends (I'm godfather to his son)
- said godson's first pair of Chuck Taylor's
- a 5-star Schumacher cap (used)
- a 7-stripe Schumacher cap (mint)
- a couple of old Zippo's I haven't used in over a decade, or since I started smoking rolling tobacco
- Butane lighter fluid
- my deodorant
- a small jar of granulated bio fertilizer for my chile pepper plants (useless, chiles don't need fertilizer when using good soil)
- a wonderfully kitsch Obama shot glass (gift)
- a small wooden reindeer pin from Finland (gift)
- and a bunch of stuff that I may tidy up one day: scotch-tape, copper eurocents, useless receipts, a pack of Halls (original flavor), a Nokia 6303 box etc.

At last count there was just over 1300 books in my little library.

A little over 900 of them are Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

Cheers.

Um...
Cats...
yep that pretty much it. Books in heap on floor. What's on my floor... sorry - too off topic. :) Hi Alex!

I don't have a bookshelf right now. :-( My paperbacks are all in storage; however, last year I bought myself a Kindle Paperwhite, and I've since downloaded some books. I even repurchased my collection of Piers Anthony's Incarnation series. :-)

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
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Lots of books - my fiction tends to be paperback, about 700 books, mostly sci-fi/fantasy but with a fair bit adventure thrillers Clive Cussler sort of stuff. My hardbacks mainly non-fiction and about 2-300 books splits into main groups - railways and military armour/history. I also have fair number of textbooks on electronics and mathematics from college (many years ago !) and work.

Table and sideboards also filled with books as I have run out of shelving space plus a fair number of Corgi trucks and a 1/10th scale crane traction engine.

I also have 40 years worth of magazines on Railways and modeling but these are slowly being scanned so that I can make space for the books that are on the floor.

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A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing.

what are these strange 'book' things of which you speak?

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

De Kunst van het Nietsdoen by Theo Fisher, my most important book on the bookshelf and my bible as well. (The art of doing nothing)

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rOZZ
Music
Pictures

Hi Chris (and the rest of the gang)!

Good to know what you like Chris, I'll have an idea of what to get you next time I'm in London:D Love the guitars & the fact that you still have a tape deck!

You guys know by now I don't really hang out at the Café, but if you promise to still be around here in a decade or two, then I promise I'll make up for it with a vengeance!:)

@anniet Welcome to SETI! Floors get voted "on topic" if that's where your books live:)

Books, DVDs, CDs, 2 hats(Mustang and Disneyland), Graces favorite toy/ball(Green/Purple on the floor) and a few tapes(it's across from a smoke alarm that's going off once an hour w/no smoke, strange)...

Over here PC and parts, like an EVGA x79 Classified that needs a 4820K cpu, a Corsair H70 cpu bracket and a case for an XL-ATX motherboard(the x79).

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I have no idea how many books we have on book shelves, on tables, on the floor, ...

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BOINC WIKI

Wow, you people can see the floor colour, in my den
the floor is green, er brown, well I know there is a
rug on the floor....

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At last count there was just over 1300 books in my little library.

A little over 900 of them are Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

Cheers.

I'm probably looking at something similar. I have 7 book shelves. One is full of teaching books and resources. 3 are full of sci-fi and fantasy novels. 1 is full of physics textbooks. One is full of CDs and things the kids have made. One is full of...books. No particular theme. oh wait..I just spotted a small one that is full of DVDs. Hmmm..there are some more built in shelves that filled with childrens books.

I now have a kobo. The books take up less room. I probably have about 100 books on there right now. I can carry a whole library around in my handbag.

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Reality Internet Personality

what are these strange 'book' things of which you speak?

Hi Allie, how you!?

Books are the things that, back in the olden days, we used to put under our pillows before going to sleep, in the hope that we would wake up, and not fail the biology exam. This mystical belief system has gradually fallen out of favour, and been replaced by plugging a laptop into your ears and then falling asleep on it's keyboard. :)

Wow, you people can see the floor colour, in my den
the floor is green, er brown, well I know there is a
rug on the floor....

Hi celttooth! I rarely use my floor except for tripping and landing. :) There is a colour but... it's indescribable.

Books, DVDs, CDs, 2 hats(Mustang and Disneyland), Graces favorite toy/ball(Green/Purple on the floor) and a few tapes(it's across from a smoke alarm that's going off once an hour w/no smoke, strange)...

Zoom314 I am impressed! Though not about the smoke alarm. :( Good luck with that. Happened to a friend of mine recently. Not sure she'll ever be the same again. :)

Floors get voted "on topic" if that's where your books live:)

Hi Alex! Thank you for your very kind welcome :)
Well I clearly have a huge hole in my collection as I do not have a copy of Julie's book :) I do have a lot of books about wildlife, collect national geographic and readers digests magazines, books on space, recipe books, have atlas's and an old set of encyclopedia's. I also have all of Richard Dawkins's books. Stamp collecting, football, rugby, fishing, horse racing - all of which are my other half's which are the only ones I moan about when I'm dusting :) With regards fiction, we have all of George Orwell's books and as an antidote to them - all of Douglas Adams's books. Literally hundreds of childrens books too - and I've been trying to add to those by getting some of my favourite books as a child (Malcolm Saville lone pine adventure series; Pookie the rabbit with wings, but there were so many. I don't read as much as I'd like to any more unfortunately. I used to read a huge amount, not just the books I was interested in, but I also read the books which my twin sister wanted to read. She was into animal stories. It was my job to read them first to make sure the animal was still alive at the end... I cried a lot as a child :))

I'm not sure how I'd adjust to a kindle like our Timelord04 has (Hi Doctor!) so have the same problem as Luigi (hi Luigi!) And, and seeing Chris's collection of miniature guitars (hi Chris!) has reminded me of a few books my son wedged into his sister's guitar which we never managed to get out again - so can't add them to the list I'm afraid :)

I now have a kobo. The books take up less room. I probably have about 100 books on there right now. I can carry a whole library around in my handbag.

Hi Es99! How are you? You see it's those sort of things that make e-readers really tempting, but I tend to find lit screens, where my eyes have to remain focussed for very long, trigger awful migraines in me. Are there some that are "hypo-allergenic" so to speak, or will I be dragging an enormous handbag around with me for some time to come? :)

I now have a kobo. The books take up less room. I probably have about 100 books on there right now. I can carry a whole library around in my handbag.

Hi Es99! How are you? You see it's those sort of things that make e-readers really tempting, but I tend to find lit screens, where my eyes have to remain focussed for very long, trigger awful migraines in me. Are there some that are "hypo-allergenic" so to speak, or will I be dragging an enormous handbag around with me for some time to come? :)

Good grief Anniet, you do keep some weird hours! It must be nearly 4am where you are.

I agree with you on the lit screens, the kobo touch isn't lit and it is just like reading a paper book, also you can ready any epub or pdf book on it so you are not tied to Amazon. I think Smith's sell them. I love mine and it has meant I have been able to downsize my carrying about handbag.

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Reality Internet Personality

I have bookshelves in every room except the kitchen and bathrooms. About 1/3 of my library is in boxes in a storage shed next to the garage. Don't have all of them cataloged, would guess 1000-1500 volumes (Hardcover, paperback, and old SF&F magazines). Probably 1/3 SF&F, 1/3 Mystery/Suspense (Ellery Queen, Raymond Chandler, Ian Fleming, P.D. James, Agatha Christy), the rest a mix of history, military, science & technical, and general fiction. And about 50 cookbooks that haven't been touched since Mom had to stop cooking.

Not reading for pleasure as much as I used to, spend too much time at the computer.......

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I fixed the malfunctioning smoke alarm, by disconnecting the black wire(Hot), then reinstalled the alarm, problem solved, for Me. I have another one in the Kitchen.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Im probally closing in on 3,000 books. Sci-Fi, Miltary history, Referance, Novels of various genres, Non Fiction works. And sad to say very few classics. But I do have and have read War and Peace, And Les Miserables.

I love the feel and smell of a real book. But if our young persons will read a book on an electronic device of there choice, I say its good, At least they are reading.
Ive allways found books magical.

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Old James

In my bedroom, mostly leftovers from childhood: Hardy Boys, Three Investigators, comic strip collections, Chronicles of Narnia, a few Doctor Who novelizations. Also Hitchhiker's 1-4, at least one Dirk Gently, and Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising and most of the Jack Ryan series (in order of publication, up to The Bear and the Dragon). And lots of Model Railroader magazines.

In the study are mostly leftovers from my parents', much of it from their college days. I did get rid of my mother's paperback mysteries and romances and I've been meaning to clean out more of their stuff (to make room for my stuff) but I lost interest. There's also one large unit full of their records. A lot of classical.

In the living room is a small shelving unit with cookbooks. I hardly ever touch them.

Trains and Railfan & Railroad magazines are all over the place. The piano (anyone want to buy a spinet?) is currently covered with ooooollllddd records and other stuff from my grandmother's house.

Basically, I'm a borderline hoarder. It's not that I think everything is important, I'm just too lazy to sort through it all and see what's important, and figure out what to do with what's not.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.