This may be the only time you ever hear someone say Go Ahead and Judge a Book by its Cover.
A little sneak peek at SC's bookcase...
While I could never organize my books this way, by color with no regard to author or genre, it certainly creates a beautiful effect.
My books are arranged a little more methodically.
Pride & Prejudice and the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are my two favorite, and most collected, books. I currently own at least four copies of each. (to be fair, two of the P&Ps are modern rewrites, but it still counts) All with very different covers and typefaces.
Let's take the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for example.
I found these editions (listed with their original publication date) currently for sale on Barnes&Noble's website. After I gathered enough to prove my point, I stopped looking. There were still more options. This doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what you could find at a used bookstore or another online bookstore.
1960
1992
2003
2003 - one of the editions I own. :)
2004
2009 (released the same year as the movie starring Robert Downey Jr, clearly)
2009 - one of the other editions I own.
With this many options to choose from, why settle for an ugly book? And with so many old, used books needing homes from used book stores, why buy a new one? There's nothing I love more than $0.50 stickers on books. Heaven on earth.
You’ve crawled inside my head once again. I store my hard back books in a china cabinet. It looks cool and keeps them pretty clean with little effort.
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