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    Having just rearranged my collection, thanks to a new pair of bookcases, thought it might now be time to finally take some pics of my collection. Hopefully the resolution will be good enough to make out the titles on the spines. Any questions, feel free to ask.

    We start our tour in the downstairs office/library. In the closet to the rear of the room, you'll find Anthologies:



    ...and vintage-paperbacks (pbos) / pbo reprints / reference/pulp/art books:


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    East side of room (HCs, A - L, most signed, signed/limited, or otherwise collectible):



    West side of room (HCs, L - Z, most signed, signed/limited, or otherwise collectible):


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    That's a library!

    Looks awesome. Thanks for posting. I love looking at books.

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    EDIT: Well, I can't get my open-door closeups to work , so I guess there'll be none of those for now. Just as well...it'll save you all some aching necks.


    Now we move upstairs to our reading loft:


    Trade paperbacks and trade HCs:



    (Mostly) signed trade HC 1sts:


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    Last bookcase is a small Ikea wall-hanger for mmpbs:


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    Looks great. I really like those bookcases.

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    The paperback rack is eye-catching. I like it.
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    Here is my on-line html database of my collection (takes a few seconds to load):

    http://home.comcast.net/~clinton65/book_database.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by ur2ndbiggestfan View Post
    The paperback rack is eye-catching. I like it.
    Thanks. I got it at my local Border's at their Going Out of Business sale...picked it up as a memento of all the good times I had there with my daughters as they were growing up. It's actually a greeting card holder, but each slot holds two paperbacks perfectly, and its curvature style is kind of cool in that it doesn't quite look like a paperback spinner...and yet it does.

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    Awesome collect and very well displayed. I love all the bookcases (I have ones similar to the "East Side" one's, but in Mahogany). Cautionary note: watch that UV light!!!


    Awesome collection!!! Now on to the individual shots and tales of procurement!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin1958 View Post
    Cautionary note: watch that UV light!!!

    No problem there...the three small windows that you see on the east wall have UV reduction coating (and are partially blocked by the items on top of the bookcases), and the large window to the south is always shuttered closed. The camera exaggerated the glare coming from it onto the glass fronts of the bookcases. In fact, it's always so dim in here that my wife calls it a cave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin1958 View Post
    Now on to the individual shots
    Still not sure why my 700-pixel wide open-door/shelf closeups didn't work (keep being sized down by about half); I ended up leaving them off my posts above. If I get really ambitious soon, I'll take individual shots of each shelf...I figure those won't be shrunk down, and it's probably the best way to read the spines anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RC65 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin1958 View Post
    Cautionary note: watch that UV light!!!

    No problem there...the three small windows that you see on the east wall have UV reduction coating (and are partially blocked by the items on top of the bookcases), and the large window to the south is always shuttered closed. The camera exaggerated the glare coming from it onto the glass fronts of the bookcases. In fact, it's always so dim in here that my wife calls it a cave.
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    Now on to the individual shots
    Still not sure why my 700-pixel wide open-door/shelf closeups didn't work (keep being sized down by about half); I ended up leaving them off my posts above. If I get really ambitious soon, I'll take individual shots of each shelf...I figure those won't be shrunk down, and it's probably the best way to read the spines anyway.
    Kinda figured as much, but better safe than sorry, right?

    Not sure regarding "tech" issues, but whatever you feel and want to do is cool. I was half kidding. Generally, we just LOVE the acquisition stories and Pics!!!!


    Just look at some of the other "Collection" threads. "Room 217 Caretaker", "Randall Flagg", "carlosdetweiller", "Ursecondbiggestfan", "Alan_G_" & "Bad Penny" jump to mind with regard to stories and pics, but there are many, many others as well!!! You'll see the enthusiasm!!
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    Oh yes, I've browsed through a number of collections here...always a lot of fun and often very, very impressive. Always nice to be around those of a like mind. :-)

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    Nice looking collection and beautifully displayed. Congratulations!

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    Great looking bookcases - and great looking books! Very nice display
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    Thanks for the kinds words, everyone.

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    Beautiful bookcases !!!

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    Great collection and thanks for sharing. To echo what others said, love the bookcases and the book-rack. Congrats on having so many nice books.

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    Holy shit, so many many many books... and really nice bookshelfes!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RC65 View Post
    I like these cases a lot!

    I also like your online book database. Do you have every book you own in there, including reading copies, or...? Do you keep track of the market value of the books, or are these the prices you paid for them? (please feel free to ignore my last questions if you don't feel comfortable discussing this here!)

    I only have a Word file with my King collection, based on Brooks' King Bibliography. I don't keep track of condition or value (and as a consequence I have no idea what I paid for most of my books, unless I dig out the PayPal invoices). But I like your setup and perhaps I'll give it a try. I know that many of our collector friends here use database software but I kind of like the 'do it yourself' approach.

    Anyway - great collection!

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    Another beautiful collection!! Superb, congratulations on a fine library and great to see it, thanks for posting.

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    Thanks again, everyone. I'll try to get some individual shelf shots up soon...if nothing else, at least some shelf shots of particular key authors.

    Quote Originally Posted by biomieg View Post

    I also like your online book database. Do you have every book you own in there, including reading copies, or...? Do you keep track of the market value of the books, or are these the prices you paid for them?
    Just about every book, yes. There are a few reading copies that are so valueless that it wasn't worth the time to input them (and they typically get traded in at local bookstores shortly afterwards anyway). There's also some non-fiction that hasn't made it in...for whatever reason, I don't worry too much about inputting that type of material. But, yes, that's probably about 95% of my books...I just pulled up the database and it shows 2287 books at the present time. As books that did get recorded are sold -- either traded in at local bookstores or sold on eBay -- they are of course removed from the Excel database.

    I originally constructed it and posted it on-line for two primary reasons: 1). If something happens to me, my wife knows the approximate retail value of each book...I'd hate to think my signed copy of UNDER THE DOME or SILENCE OF THE LAMBS -- both worth several hundreds of dollars -- and many other such valuable books would be sold for a couple bucks each at an estate sale, and 2). If I'm at a bookstore and can't recall if have a certain title or not, I can pull up the on-line database while I'm there and find out (interestingly, though, I've only had to do that a couple times...my memory may falter at some things but not when it comes to books). Plus, it's fun to show off on rare occasions like this.

    The values -- no, they're not what I paid for them, they're the retail values I assigned the book at the time I input them into the database by averaging values found at ABE, AddAll, eBay, et al. That italicized portion is the caveat: As we all know, books often fluctuate in price...what was once a hot item can cool off for a variety of reasons, or, conversely, an item that wasn't worth much at one point can rapidly increase in demand and value. Others may stay relatively stagnant. While I'll occasionally go back and revisit a value for a particular book, I rarely do, so the values I assigned my books may or may not be reflective of their true value at any given time. I just don't have the time (or, frankly, the interest) in keeping up on the values of all 2000-plus books in my collection. Thus, the database can be looked at as an approximation of the true values. 'Sides, we all know retail value and resale/true value are often two very different things.

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    Thanks a lot! I figured you would not make it a priority to keep track of the value of each separate book, but hey, you never know - us collectors are a weird bunch!

    I really like the idea of having a list of books you own at your disposal when you're at a bookstore. In fact, I have an iPhone app in which I listed the books I own of a couple of very prolific authors - not Mr. King - because I can never remember which titles I'm still looking for. But I am not really happy with the format and I think a plain online Excel sheet would work much better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RC65 View Post
    Thanks again, everyone. I'll try to get some individual shelf shots up soon...if nothing else, at least some shelf shots of particular key authors.

    Quote Originally Posted by biomieg View Post

    I also like your online book database. Do you have every book you own in there, including reading copies, or...? Do you keep track of the market value of the books, or are these the prices you paid for them?
    Just about every book, yes. There are a few reading copies that are so valueless that it wasn't worth the time to input them (and they typically get traded in at local bookstores shortly afterwards anyway). There's also some non-fiction that hasn't made it in...for whatever reason, I don't worry too much about inputting that type of material. But, yes, that's probably about 95% of my books...I just pulled up the database and it shows 2287 books at the present time. As books that did get recorded are sold -- either traded in at local bookstores or sold on eBay -- they are of course removed from the Excel database.

    I originally constructed it and posted it on-line for two primary reasons: 1). If something happens to me, my wife knows the approximate retail value of each book...I'd hate to think my signed copy of UNDER THE DOME or SILENCE OF THE LAMBS -- both worth several hundreds of dollars -- and many other such valuable books would be sold for a couple bucks each at an estate sale, and 2). If I'm at a bookstore and can't recall if have a certain title or not, I can pull up the on-line database while I'm there and find out (interestingly, though, I've only had to do that a couple times...my memory may falter at some things but not when it comes to books). Plus, it's fun to show off on rare occasions like this.

    The values -- no, they're not what I paid for them, they're the retail values I assigned the book at the time I input them into the database by averaging values found at ABE, AddAll, eBay, et al. That italicized portion is the caveat: As we all know, books often fluctuate in price...what was once a hot item can cool off for a variety of reasons, or, conversely, an item that wasn't worth much at one point can rapidly increase in demand and value. Others may stay relatively stagnant. While I'll occasionally go back and revisit a value for a particular book, I rarely do, so the values I assigned my books may or may not be reflective of their true value at any given time. I just don't have the time (or, frankly, the interest) in keeping up on the values of all 2000-plus books in my collection. Thus, the database can be looked at as an approximation of the true values. 'Sides, we all know retail value and resale/true value are often two very different things.
    Quote Originally Posted by biomieg View Post
    Thanks a lot! I figured you would not make it a priority to keep track of the value of each separate book, but hey, you never know - us collectors are a weird bunch!

    I really like the idea of having a list of books you own at your disposal when you're at a bookstore. In fact, I have an iPhone app in which I listed the books I own of a couple of very prolific authors - not Mr. King - because I can never remember which titles I'm still looking for. But I am not really happy with the format and I think a plain online Excel sheet would work much better.
    The ability to access your collection at a book store is just brilliant!!! I should really look into converting my database likewise. Awesome Idea and collection!!!
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