How to reorganise your bookshelf using the honesty system

I reorganised my book collection a couple of weeks ago. I'd been meaning to do this for three or four years for a bunch of reasons, but mostly because I wanted to find a scheme where I didn't get the constant sense that the worthy books I'd repeatedly chickened out of reading were getting together to look down their noses and whisper about me.
The Guardian

Filmantes

The shelves are made of wood sustained by 35mm film from reutilized original movies.
VU35

Hitadoko

The shape comes from Japanese kites.
OMC Design

Pied-de-Poule

Pied-de-Poule est un concept de rangement mural modulaire reproduisant le motif pied-de-poule. Son installation est possible même dans un endroit très exiguë, en raison de sa modularité exceptionnelle. De part son graphisme original, il représente une nouvelle vision du rangement mural à la fois esthétique et pratique. Et tout cela pour un coût modique qui variera en fonction du nombre d'éléments désirés. Coût de fabrication peu élevée en raison des matériaux utilisés : bois aggloméré écologique et stratifié. Mise en place facile, grâce à deux vis.
Julia Quancard

Canto Corner

Versatile shelving units which make use of dead corner space to acommodate books of varying depths and sizes.
Andre Pereira

Oblique

Made of solid walnut with a clear satin finish
BuiltIN Studio

Zigzag

Lema

Lampada da Tavolo/Booklight

Atelier Designtrasparente

Tree bookcase

Roberto Corazza

Pietro Piarotto, his Fitting Pyramid, and the Bookshelf book

Pietro Piarotto

Juliette

Juliette est une étagère murale en acier laqué qui trouve sa place dans toutes les pièces de la maison: salon, salle à manger, cuisine, bureau, salle de bain, le long d'un mur ou en séparation de pièce. Couleurs disponibles : blanc, noir, bleu canard, rouge orangé, jaune.
Jean Marc Gady

The Give and Take

People coming and going constantly filter through Union Station, a working piece of the city’s history. But in between being on the go, there can be plenty of waiting for a train or bus, and the Friends of the Worcester Public Library hope people take advantage of the downtime to read a book from The Give and Take, a bookshelf of free titles for people to peruse and even take with them.
More at Worcester Telegram

Street

A collection of stackable units for storage and display of magazines, books and plants in public and private spaces. The system consists of four parts, a frame and a house, high and low unit. The units can be combined in different ways, for example as a shelf or a room divider. Only the imagination sets the limits.
A2

The Way We Read Now

Are some reading materials better suited to one platform than another? Does Philip Larkin feel at home on an iPad, and Lorrie Moore on a Kindle? Can I make a Kay Ryan poem my ringtone? Will any gizmo make “The Fountainhead” palatable? Books used to pile up by my bedside; sometimes it now seems that gadgets do, the standby power of their LED lights staring at me like unfed dogs.
More at New York Times

The Problem With the Web and E-Books Is That There’s No Space for Them

The web and e-books have upsides physical libraries do not, of course, but they are deeply lacking in spatial navigability, and so they don't yet serve the brain-extension role that is within their potential. We should embrace the new technologies, but utilize them in novel ways that take seriously the topography of the information.
More at Psychology Today

Quake

Antoine Phelouzat

Better Bookshelves

Grant Snider (available as a poster)

La Ruche

Inspired by both the natural shelter built by bees and traditional forms of Arab Andalusian architecture.
Mostapha El Oulhani for Darenart

The CSB-1

Inspired by Isokon’s Penguin Donkey, the Chair Side Bookcase was created for us and is exclusive to BOOK/SHOP. A sturdy little animal, it has two sides; each proportioned for different media. It holds paperbacks, hardbacks, cds, lps, magazines and art books with ease– and all at the same time. White painted and edge-banded MDF with birch legs. Made by hand in California. Price includes shipping in the continental USA. 20" W x 14" D x 18.25" H
Erik Heywood for BOOK/SHOP

The Book

What is a book if it is not only a carrier of written words? What else is attached to these objects, besides their content? For ‘The Book’ I created artifacts of my own book collection, focusing on the memory connected to these objects or their physical condition. The bookshelf has been adapted to underline each book’s position, and to house an archive of memories
Isabelle Vaverka