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Gosha

Whenever I look at pictures of flats for rent/sale, I can't help imagining what kind of people are living there now, what their life might be like. And one thing I notice very much is that hardly anyone has books anymore. I can understand if you're renting, you might not want to move tons of books around every year, but when you own a place?

Anyway I saw this picture of someone's living room today and it made me happy.

A photo of a living room with a large shelf full of books, taking up an entire wall
13 December at 14:27 | Open on merveilles.town
19 comments
Devine Lu Linvega

@gosha bio: "My rolling library staircase has, not 4, but 5 steps!"

*swoons*

13 December at 14:38 | Open on merveilles.town
Kototama

@gosha I'm scared of flats without books

13 December at 15:15 | Open on merveilles.town
Alexander Ilyin

@gosha "We can't afford more Vitaœ shelves, so no more books for us, I guess".

13 December at 15:43 | Open on merveilles.town
Alexander Ilyin

@gosha My flat has thousands of books on the esoteric and occult, so I had to buy my own shelves for the mundane Infinite Jests and the like.

13 December at 15:45 | Open on merveilles.town
Gosha

@creitve tbh this is my ambition for if I ever become a homeowner

BOOKSHELVES
13 December at 15:54 | Open on merveilles.town
Alexander Ilyin

@gosha Definitely, but the absence of vacant shelf space on these pictures is anxiety inducing for me.

13 December at 17:28 | Open on merveilles.town
mikael

@gosha

Paper books are nice, but so are Epubs. 😁

13 December at 17:23 | Open on merveilles.town
Alastair M. D. Touw

@gosha I love the 1950s Modernist vibes going on there! It reminds me of school, in a good way.

13 December at 17:33 | Open on mastodon.social
floatvoid

@gosha there's a house near me who leaves their front window open, with their living room bookshelf clearly visible.

The books are organized by color.

13 December at 18:39 | Open on merveilles.town
vegancoder

@gosha I personally prefer Kindle.
The feeling of finishing a book and placing it on a shelf forever knowing that no one will ever open it again is a bit strange.

13 December at 22:05 | Open on troet.cafe
Gosha

@vegancoder I used to think that way too, but these days I love having paper books. I write notes in them and come back to them from time to time!

13 December at 22:35 | Open on merveilles.town
vegancoder

@gosha what do you do with them when you move?

14 December at 21:52 | Open on troet.cafe
Gosha

@vegancoder I put them in the moving truck then put them back on the shelves in the new flat!

15 December at 5:52 | Open on merveilles.town
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