From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Book shelves and cases
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:54:51 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

    I have just flooded my apartment with cheap book cases
from Home depot.  Come in a box and have cardboard
backing.  These come together easily with a minimum of
tools. But require 2 people to put them together and carry
them around.
    They are heavy, and I doubt they would survive a move.
 Its hard thinking of book cases as disposable -- use once
and throw away, but thats what these are.
    I am daydreaming of bookcases that are light, stable,
durable and cheap that I can make myself.  Its a pipe
dream.  But how close can anyone come?  Book cases are
nice in that books can slip over the edge or worse the
back like some book shelves.  I read some of the 60's and
70's books on nomadic furniture and apartment living. The
days when wooden cubes and bean bag chairs were praised
for portability.
   I once dreamed of having the paperbacks in something
like a china cabinet with shallow drawers each holding a
single layer of paperbacks.  A friend was going to make
them but he moved before he found time. This was David
Woodward in Baltimore, who kept his books in shallow
wooden boxes that could be rested against the wall in an
apartment, and moved in the boxes when he had to relocate.
   What is everyone's ideal book storage solution -- not
whats practical like block and boards -- but what they
would like if they had money and space and time?

   Madeleine