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2pduck
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!
http://bookshelvesandlatefees.tumblr.com/archive
http://teachingliteracy.tumblr.com/archive
http://bookshelves.tumblr.com/archive
Man, I love looking at full bookcases!
4staffordcastle
Lovely!
6theapparatus
Blocked: Sex/porn
*sigh*
*sigh*
7bluesalamanders
*snort* Really? Tumblr is blocked for sex/porn? I mean, I suppose, but I mostly look at cute animal pictures and pretty clothes!
8theapparatus
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.
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.
9bluesalamanders
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.
102wonderY
Found this page today -
http://cindysbookclub.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
http://cindysbookclub.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
12justjim
Roger Ebert tweeted this link today of book stores in re-purposed accommodation.
132wonderY
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-...
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/former-walmart-becomes-a-designer-s-dream-librar...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169498/McAllen-Public-Library-Revealed-...
15alaudacorax
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.
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.
16abbottthomas
>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.
17alaudacorax
>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.
ETA - ... and now I've seen them, they're more and more obvious.
18mstrust
>15 alaudacorax: That's so amazing. It's an excellent optical illusion, you really have to look to see that it isn't circular.
21bluepiano
And still another link: https://www.reddit.com/r/bookshelf/top/.
22Cynfelyn
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.
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.
24Julie_in_the_Library
It's cool looking, but I think it might be overwhelming in person.
25SandraArdnas
I could certainly spend days in there, both browsing books and admiring the mind-boggling design
26thorold
>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)
27SandraArdnas
>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 :)
28mstrust
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.
29Keeline
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
Chinese bookstore
James
30bluepiano
>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*?
31mstrust
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
32humouress
>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.