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The bookshelf may be on its way out.
This week’s Economist led off a piece on e-books with this nugget: for the first five months of 2011, e-book sales outpaced hardcovers. It’s gotten so bad that IKEA’s reconsidering the bookshelf entirely. Now it’s more of a glass-doored ornament case. The book-covered wall may already be a thing of the past…
Needless to say, we disapprove.
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We’ve gushed before about the charms of the bookshelf, but there’s finally a photoblog to back it all up. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on Bookshelf Porn, a guided tour through some of the best bookshelves in the world. Sadly, it’s not nearly as salacious as it sounds.
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We like furniture best at its most functional, so the prospect of a sized-to-order bookshelf strikes us as a very good idea. The only catch? You’ll basically be buying a pile of plywood and clamps.
Indie Furniture’s new bookshelf takes the modular philosophy to its natural extreme. If you need to 4’ x 7’ space, they’ll tell you exactly how many cubbyholes to build, and exactly how many planks and connectors you’ll need to build them. Of course, there’s quite a markup for all that lumber, but unless you’ve got a carpenter handy, it should be the next best thing.
Between the Kindle, the iPad, and Going Rogue, the book’s been having a pretty rough year. But even if you’re not much for lugging the things around with you, we recommend keeping your collection around for one very simple reason: the bookshelf.
