“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.”―Alan Bennett [Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]. In The Long Fall, Walter Mosley wrote: “A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.” Bookshelf problems are a unique problem only book lovers understand.

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Organizing your bookshelf.

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Attempting to not select from your bookshelf the one book you can’t stop reading.

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Running out of shelf space.

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Display difficulties.

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Lending books.

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Bookshelf styling.

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Choosing your vacation reads from your bookshelf.

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Owning multiple editions.

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Home decor wars (when hubby wants a man cave and you want a reading room with wall-to-wall bookcases).

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Protecting your paperbacks.

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Bookshelf envy.

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Selfies vs. Shelfies.

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Showing off your bookshelf.

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Planning your dream home library.

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Shelf-control not self-control.