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Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “Based on the titles, this appears to be the Fiction section but without that stack of books it would be History.”
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a theme kludge… well done
Here’s the money, I’ll buy them all!
i’ve seen this kludge offered on Amazon at a substantial discount. not available in Braille.
… but what sort of juicy secrets are hidden in those books? I’ll just take a little peek… *resounding crash*
this is one effective way to recycle paper.
I’ve always said that books are the foundation of civilization.
Here they seem more like a pillar of knowledge.
I want to see some idiot try to pull out one of the unmarked books at the bottom
Based on the titles, this appears to be the Fiction section but without that stack of books it would be History.
Well played good sir.
Niiiice…
actully it would “crash”, just like the book next to it.
What a waste of books. Thirty minutes with a few pieces of wood, some screws and a saw would forever replace this stupidity.
Your cranium is clearly a few braincells short of a pair. It wouldn’t be a kludge then, would it?
Besides, all the ones with red covers could be encyclopedias, which long ago lost their usefulness.
Sure, you could spend a few hours getting the tools and materials, building a couple of supports, making sure they’re all the same height. Or take two minutes to grab some old books that wouldn’t ever sell anyway. This is also more stable than whatever an unskilled carpenter would put together.
Books are the foundation of all learning.
Ironically, the kludge had just been put in place when they noticed it was comprised of all 14 copies in-stock of “How To Fix A Book Shelf.”
Nice!
reading is fun for mentals…
I absolutely love that the book on the left’s title is “Crash”.
But the bottom two are for sale?
As if the sign doesn’t tempt fate enough…
Yes, I’m searching for a book in 1″ and 2/5ths? I need it to level out my computer desk. Also, which would you suggest for carpet leveling… hardcover or paperback?
Good thing, too. Who wants books with words written on the top?
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Visit my site to read my newly published story, “Ragnarok.”
How much for “purpose?”
“These”
“Books”
“Are Here”
“For An”
“Essential”
“Structural”
“Purpose.”
“They”
“Serve”
“No Longer”
“Any Reason”
“Since”
“Google Books”
“Was Recently”
“Launched.”
Since the books surrounding the support stack were published in 1961, 1973, and 1980, I don’t think the bookstore owner has to worry about anyone actually buying something. J. G. Ballard’s book must have been put there intentionally as some sort of additional, subliminal warning.
For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment taught me an important structural lesson.
But the commandment is good.
Anyone else see the irony in the title of the book immediately to the left?
Good eye, Stevo! I also liked this book:
Nobody Knows My Name, by James
It’s a warning to anyone who decides to tempt fate.
Great, and I had a report due on space. Guess I’ll have to order my own Encyclopedia Britannica.
Not at $2700 for the full set you won’t.
Don’t change the “NOT” of position. “These books are here not for an essential structural purpose. They are for sale.”
*These books are not here for an essential structural purpose. They are for sale.*
This is one area where e-book readers don’t hold up well.
I like this – but then again I used 12 reams of paper (three per monitor) for my four 19 CRT’s years ago…..
…literally!
That’s one advantage Encyclopaedia Britannica will always have over Wikipedia
True, but Wikipedia can far more easily be updated.
I guess “going to the stacks” now has a whole new meaning.
Oh look, a book on sales. Just what I was looking for!
Although, I now have this sudden urge to find this bookstore and rearrange those books.
The comedic possibilities could be endless!
Book to the left.
“Crash”
I doubt that’s a coincidence
Unfortunately, whoever did that decided to make the books sort of like those little magnetic words. They can be easily rearranged to spell “THESE” “BOOKS” “ARE HERE” “FOR” “SALE.” “THEY” “ARE” “NOT” “FOR AN” “ESSENTIAL” “STRUCTURAL” PURPOSE.”
In fact, I want to go do that. Someone tell me where this library is so I can rearrange those books. And why stop there? I want to put all the Bibles in the Fiction section, just for laughs.
Ironically, these books were all part of a course on structural engineering.
A crash course, no doubt.
The English Major’s guide to home repair.
The bottom two say nothing, so can we buy them?
Those two blank ones are bugging me, too. Seems like they should say “THANK” and “YOU” or “GOT” and “IT?”.
Or at least replace them with titles like,
Things Fall Apart, or
Forbidden Falls, or
Catch Me, I’m Falling.
Or just some more copies of Crash.
This is where the next storey begins.
Is that a complete set of the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov?
What no one realizes is that there’s a long forgotten video recorder behind these books, left over from some 1980s candid-camera type show.
Yes, but the cassette loading bay is taped over, with writing on it stating that it no longer works.
I’ve always wanted a first edition “For An.” I’ll take that book about Sal Teaters, too.
hmm, i wonder what’ll happen if i pull one out… *the bookcase spins around revealing a secret room* Hey, i found a clue!
Why read books when you can use them as building blocks. Overall a pretty good use of some undoubtedly outdated material
Is this from Wayfarer Books in Kingston???
It sure is.
These books are here for an es…. ess…. essential? What’s that mean? Let me just grab one of these and find o- *crash!* ….. oops.
Perhaps if they actually read the books in their store, they could build an ideal shelving system.
So what happens when the state building inspector comes in to buy a book?
you know how if you eat too much salt, you get crazy. well I guess the people who decided to do this had read that book to right and thought it was a great idea to make a bookshelf out of books.
heeeeeeem
- Do you have ‘The Salt Eaters’ by Toni Cade Bamabara’?”
- Yes, it’s next to the load-bearing encyclopedias in fiction
What a crap library. They care so little for books that they’ll use them as shelf supports and write on them in sharpie? Could anyone at that store not think of a *better* way to fix that shelf? Anyone? Hmmm? A better strut perhaps Anyone?
I guess we can’t expect any better, and we should learn from this that a “Master’s in Library Science” degree is *not* a science degree… Or a degree that requires any ability to use one’s brain…
Still bitter over choosing Liberal Arts, eh?
Hey, McDonalds can to be a career!
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Load bearing books? I haven’t heard that one before. Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Flanders lost his house. His new house had load bearing wall paper.
It’s all good except for the one odd green book at the top. If only Britannica had produced one more volume…
In Great Britain a lot of old people have become so poor, that they buy old tomes in order to burn them in their ovens to get warm. Source: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/807821-pensioners-burn-books-for-warmth
It has been suggested that the books are on structural engineering, but, wouldn’t it be fictional structural engineering?
As a manager of a second hand bookstore for 15 years, I have found out the hard way that you have to wrap the “structural” books in brown paper bags or a customer will totally pull them out.
We find Jackie Collins hardback novels are often longer-lasting than encyclopedias….
the twilight books!
Notice the book strategically placed next to to the stack….”Crash”…Coincidence? I think not.
OK, I’ll buy just the bottom two.
What about those two on the bottom? Can I look at those? They aren’t labelled…
Didn’t someone invent wood for just such a structural purpose?
Oh, but these ARE wood… the recycled version.
Isn’t THEY an actual book?
If they would of continued writing just ONE word on every book, they would of covered them all.
How ironic…they’re next to a book called crash…
By the by…Some encyclopedia sets come with an off colour tome, I’m trying to remembert what it’s for… Funk and Wagnells-the off colour one was yearly updates/appendices
Two more words would have resolved the problem of someone trying to take an empty book at the bottom:
The Management
Or better yet:
Thank You
‘Salt-Eaters,’? That would so rock! I wanna be one.
I love how the book on the left is titled “Crash.” As if the universe was trying to warn everyone what would happen if they moved the Stuctural Books.