Did you know your bookshelves could have bookshelves?

[kestrell]

Through search superskills and the use of my accessible tape measure, I found mini-bookcases which fit under the eaves of the aerye, and I thought I had gone about as far as I could go with that, but it turns out that there are book stands and book racks which are small enough to perch on top of the bookcases.

I got this spiffy adjustable wooden one
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UD6DA30/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
just this morning. It cost $10, and it came out of the packing already to go, just unfold the ends and adjust the length. It's also highly tactile, with vines carved all over it (I love vines).

Not unrelated to my ongoing book storage problem, it's
science fiction and fantasy week on GoodReads
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1890?ref=sffweek2020_eb

While GoodReads could really use an accessibility makeover (seriously guys, not even using headings?), I do enjoy it for a number of reasons and first among those reasons is all the lists, such as this one I found recently:
2020 books by Native authors and authors of color
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/132826.2020_Books_by_Native_Authors_Authors_of_Colour

Another great feature is that, if you check a book that isn't out yet as "Want to read," you get an alert the day it comes out. As I used to keep a list for this very reason, that's one less list I need to keep track of.

Occasionally, I even post reviews, and I always get a little buzz when someone likes one of my reviews. Oh, and when you look up a book, you can see the available formats. Now that NLS is using a lot of commercial audiobooks, especially for sf and fantasy, you can find reviews mentioning the narrator. The audiobooks for Rebecca Roanhor's duology, _Trail of Lightning_ and _Storm of Locusts_, for instance, was amazing, and pronounced all the Dine (pronounced di-NAY, the Navajo language, and the name by which the Navajo refer to themselves) words smoothly, which is the main reason I chose the audiobook.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Oh those lovely sliding bookshelves--I had one in my ill-spent youth.

I faced facts and got qualified for Bookshare -- holding up a book is just too painful, and my book stands are far enough away that I need 36pt type to read stuff. Unfortunately, NLS eligibility seems to require one's print impairment to be down to a single cause. For me it's the combo of vision & physical.

Right now, I'm grateful I can afford to buy a tangible copy before I read something from Bookshare. If only ebooks didn't have pesky DRM and full-justification. (At point sizes that large, justified text becomes unreadable -- the spaces between the words are much bigger than the letters.)

Do you buy tangibles?

Theoretical additional book storage without bookcases

[cvirtue]

There's this nano-stuff that supposedly functions like gecko feet and you can use it to stick anything to anything without damage or residue. I haven't tried it. But for someone who needs book storage space, maybe it would work for sticking books to the walls by their largest flat side. You'd need to put a rubber band around it, so it wouldn't flop open. If it works, you could wallpaper your room in actual books.