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By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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I'm finally getting started on my basement bookshelves. I don't work quickly so the project will take months. Or maybe a year. I don't know.

I bought twenty 8' boards which have been cut to 7' and angularly ripped, giving me 40 pieces that are almost 8" on one end and almost 4" on the other. The fat ends go on the floor. Those will be the vertical supports. The verticals will be bracketed onto every stud of two stretches of wall, the first getting twenty-two verticals and the second getting seventeen.

The horizontal shelves will be tightly spaced, just nine inches apart to accommodate pulp paperbacks no more than 8 ¼" tall. I can put slightly taller books (up to 10") on the floor beneath the lowest shelf. The shelves at the bottom will be deeper than the shelves at the top. I suppose that gives me the option of nesting books behind others, but I really don't want to do that and don't think I'll need to.

The project involves: 39 supports. 117 brackets. 1,332 shelf pegs, 333 shelves - if I counted right. I don't even want to think about how many peg holes I'll be drilling since I want the shelves to be adjustable even though initially they'll all be the same. And 2 gallons of paint, but that's only a guess.

I have a lot of books. These shelves are meant for the pulp SF, Fantasy, Mystery and Suspense novels or anthologies. I haven't checked the database in a long time, but I think they amount to around 7,500 books. I doubt I have the room, but I've also got 2,151 SF magazines - and, to look at them, they're essentially paperbacks too. Naturally, I've got some duplicates. That will lower the tally by a bit.

UPDATE. I've checked the database. Non-duplicate SF + Fantasy + Mystery + Suspense paperbacks come to 5,295 books. I previously measured 3,378 of the paperbacks. Their combined width came to 2,686 inches, giving me a .798" average. So my 5,295 books will need 353 linear feet. I'm putting in 490 linear feet, though some will be lost to the width of the supports. Don't laugh: It adds up to 53 linear feet! Some space will also be gained as I find that books I listed in the database as paperbacks are, in fact, too big to fit on the shelves. (I have another database category called "Oversized PB" that I should have used for these tall books. I'll correct them as I encounter them.)

The bottom line is that I think there will be enough shelving for both the books and the magazines.

I think.

I hope.

LOL, in the course of writing this post and editing it, and editing it again, and again, and again, it's racked up 36 views, all my doing. But then I'm figuring out portions of this project as I write the post, so you'll have to forgive me for that.


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