Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Gary R. Schmidt" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [Meta] Wait, you sort your books how??? Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:53:22 +1000 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net JuMGrP5cu49Px096PyM3Agsguv9y8PL/IDF4mot/Se1Y6L788= X-Orig-Path: paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:QNAKJVWsvQkqdP6WYYygasAhk1o= sha256:4nuNnumTEcRld9vdnuErgEvdHfZ59LYxDDym2bWwDgg= User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Content-Language: en-AU In-Reply-To: X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 2165 On 21/07/2024 06:23, Ahasuerus wrote: > On 7/19/2024 10:46 PM, The Horny Goat wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 21:22:32 -0400, Cryptoengineer >> wrote: >> >>> I built my shelves from poplar, and have had no problems. Pine would be >>> a different matter. >> >> Way back when some well-wisher gifted my late wife a complete set of >> Brittanicas from the 60s - she kept them on the bottom shelf (which >> was a 3/4" thick piece of wood that sat on a concrete floor) just >> outside this room which she then filled up with various boxes. [snip] > > Smart. Encyclopedia Britannica is a known bookshelf-killer. > I have a Funk & Wagnall's on the bottom of one of my bookshelves. How many here remember, "Look it up in your Funk & Wagnall's?", or, "No, not another chicken joke!". :-) Cheers, Gary B-)