Something for the bookcase, Sir?

[XFool]

Virtual meetings spur sales in books for backgrounds

BBC News

A company that supplies books for TV and film sets says it has seen a rise in sales for home offices during lockdown.

[Charlottesquare]

I did consider that re my wife who does a lot of online meetings with her school but also has a vast collection of history books covering Russia, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany etc, I toyed with rearranging them in the bookcases opposite the desk in the study downstairs so that her interests were more prominent, however I decided with some somewhat more mature thought that this was possibly not fair re the impression about her it might engender re her colleagues.

My late father's law firm had hundreds of half calf law reports in his office, in floor to ceiling bookcases that covered one curved wall, which he referred to as expensive wallpaper. (They had been accumulating them since the firm's formation in the 1830s, one or two a year.)

[Urbandreamer]

It's funny. There was a time when I couldn't imagine a home without books. I still have far too many, and yes I was a book snob. I really still don't understand people who don't read.

However in these days when you can get a book delivered in seconds that takes no space and may not even have yet been "published" * I no longer view a lack of bookshelves the same way.

*The publisher Baen will sell ebooks before final proof reading or printing.

[AleisterCrowley]

I have 'too many' books i.e. not enough yet
I rarely mix with my fellow humans (and work calls are always no video) so I don't have to hide the low-brow stuff lurking on the shelves..
Somebody should come up with fake covers/slip cases so you can hide your James Herbert/Wilbur Smith inside a Tacitus/Balzac/Proust/whatever

[Urbandreamer]

Somebody should come up with fake covers/slip cases so you can hide your James Herbert/Wilbur Smith inside a Tacitus/Balzac/Proust/whatever

I'm sure that you joke, but the Harry potter books were released in adult covers to hide the fact that you wanted to read a kids book. Likewise Scott Adams "The Joy of Work", had a reversible cover "Company Loyalty: Your Key to Success by Scott Adams, Ph.D.".
https://ew.com/article/1998/09/25/joy-w ... o-workers/

However with an ebook reader nobody can tell if you are reading:
50 shades of grey, by E L James,
or
Shades of grey by Jasper Fforde.

I confess that I read plenty of "trash", mixed in with the more high brow stuff.

Well I say "trash", but if it was really trash it wouldn't be worth reading. I mean stuff who's only reason to read is because it's a bit of fun.

[swill453]

There's a Twitter account just for this.

One of the recent ones was, er, interesting: https://twitter.com/BCredibility/status ... 2299593729

Scott.

[AleisterCrowley]

Somebody should come up with fake covers/slip cases so you can hide your James Herbert/Wilbur Smith inside a Tacitus/Balzac/Proust/whatever

I'm sure that you joke, but the Harry potter books were released in adult covers to hide the fact that you wanted to read a kids book. Likewise Scott Adams "The Joy of Work", had a reversible cover "Company Loyalty: Your Key to Success by Scott Adams, Ph.D.".
https://ew.com/article/1998/09/25/joy-w ... o-workers/
....

I've got a Kinglsey Amis* book -'The Book of Bond or, Every Man His Own 007' with reversible dustjacket - on the other side it's "The Bible to be Read as Literature'
This is based on an incident in Goldfinger: Bond opens his suitcase and takes out 'The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature ' which conceals his Walther PPK


*Writing as Bill Tanner. Yes, I have the First Edition, naturally.

[jfgw]

A number of variations on this theme exist,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rasch-Pattern-Wallpaper-Library-Burgundy/dp/B01H71ZD6K


Julian F. G. W.

[staffordian]

It does pay to check what you might have left on your bookcase before a zoom call, or perhaps BBC interview...

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 93340.html

[swill453]

It does pay to check what you might have left on your bookcase before a zoom call, or perhaps BBC interview...

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 93340.html

Yes, I linked to that three posts back.

Scott.

[staffordian]

Sorry, skimmed through the posts but missed that

[swill453]

Sorry, skimmed through the posts but missed that

Maybe because we were both being circumspect about mentioning what was actually in it...


Scott.

[servodude]

Sorry, skimmed through the posts but missed that

who expects to see a copy of "Articulate" these days?
- easily missed...

- sd