home libraries, please show

[Green Chile]

There are times when I've had more invested in books than in guns. My bookshelves are all over and I've got boxes of books in the garage and in 2 storage units. The majority are hunting or gun related but I have many related to fly-fishing and falconry as well. I refer to them frequently and have at least 2-3 reading piles around the house in the bedroom, living room, etc where I'm either reading them again or for the first time.

 

[Firebird]

Had to laugh at “reading piles”my wife cusses me for the same thing all the time. By the bed, in the office, in the truck. . .

 

[DLSJR]

My room is a bit of a mess presently but this is my book case. I bought my first collectible book when I was 17, back in 1976 and paid $300 for it. First edition of Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter by W.D.M. Bell. Still have it.

 

[Jason Miller]

The thread about Bell on Kindle got me thinking... My wife and I have always loved books but in our younger years, they were always stuffed hither and thither Fortunately, in our mountain home, we finally have a "library". Still have 20 boxes of books up in the hay loft
I will start...
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Very nice, we live in Colorado as well but moved all my books down to our Texas home,

 

[Altitude sickness]

Similar to Firebird. If my wife and I had kept all of our books since married. We would look like hoarders with only paths through the house.

We have both always been prolific readers. Many times had 2-3 books going at once.

So now have three storage locations in the house boxes in the barn and gave most of them away over the years. My wife now uses a Kindle for that reason. I unfortunately still enjoy buying, holding and reading a real book.

I love the look of an extensive library and wish I still had every book read.

If I keep books they are worth reading repeatedly. This keeps me from having boxes of books in the attic.
I keep my favorites, and slowly parting with those I haven’t read in a decade or two

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[Hunt anything]

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My room is a bit of a mess presently but this is my book case. I bought my first collectible book when I was 17, back in 1976 and paid $300 for it. First edition of Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter by W.D.M. Bell. Still have it.

I like the baseball bats!

 

[Kurt Swanson]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with a book problem!
You could say I've got three libraries. On the main floor of our home I have my reading chair and most of my African hunting books. In the basement I have a gun room with two walls nearly full of shelves. I don't have any pictures of our cabin up north, but I have a long low wall that holds all my Jack O'Connor books and Outdoor Life magazines, plus some other stuff of course.

 

[DLSJR]

I like the baseball bats!

Those baseball bats are kinda special to me. A couple are bats given to me by friends who played Major League Baseball, some were given to me by players whom I coached when they were 16-19 and moved through college ball to play professionally and the one on the top left is a 2014 World Series bat autographed by many of the SF Giants players. I coached one of their players from 13-18 years old and he went on to become one of the players on that World Series Champion team. We were at a fundraiser dinner about a month after that World Series and he walked in with that bat, handed it to me while telling me that he appreciated what I’d done for him over the years to help make him the baseball player he’d become. That bat means a lot to me. Those bats are just as special as what I’ve got on the walls and scattered around the floor.

 

[Hunt anything]

I actually played with many MLB players, I wish I would e gotten some memorabilia from some of them. After I retired from minor league ball I kept up with many of them but lost contact with most over the years. All of these guys played in the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s.

 

[Inkgardener]

My library…still working on a small section and the upper part but shoulder surgery slowed me down. The last pic is of the “good” books.

 

[bakerb]

Built the house 3 years ago. I’ve already ran out of room

 

[Nyati]

 

[Phil Giordano]

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Fantastic vinyl records collection also!

 

[Nyati]

Fantastic vinyl records collection also!

Upper shelf Jazz, bottom shelf classical.

 

[SCHUNTER73]

My wife and I love to read. Love my iPad for reading before bed, but I still love to turn pages.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Nice reel to reel also

 

[Tintin]

What a great thread.

Some wonderful spaces.

My little hunting library corner in the trophy room.

 

[Rimbaud]

A room without books is like a body without soul, Cicero.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I like the travel case with all the labels.

 

[Tintin]

I like the travel case with all the labels.

Thanks - it was a nice pick up at a local antique place.

The case it sits on is special - it was my uncle’s. He was a great man, a signaller in WW2, among other things - and I’m grateful to have a little momento of him in the trophy room.