Hi? An introduction

Hey, I'm Another Shy One. Call me Shy, I guess or Quail, in reference to my tumblr kamikazequail. I have A.D.D and am introverted as hell. I am also a gemini who is secretly a capricorn. I'm a college student majoring in english (creative writing) and minoring in sociology. I own a lot of books, so much that some of them are being housed in drawers that were meant for clothes... I like the colors purple, blue, black and silver. Uh... I'm a homestuck and marvel fan? I also read an old comic series called Elfquest... I got nothing else :/

 

Hi, Shy. :) Your dresser shelving entertains me, because I was doing that for about a year until I got real bookshelves. Improvised bookshelf users, unite!

 

dresser shelving! that's a good idea! if there was more room in my dresser, i might consider doing that. as it is, i have so many books that more than half of them are at my cottage (on several shelves) and yet my bookshelf at home is overflowing, and kobo is a real space-saver.

my fave too

 

ELFQUEST

 

lol, i need real books shelves, all the ones in my house has been taken over by my dad and my aunt. I use everything i can to store my books, shoeboxes, drawers, on top of drawers etc... there is a platic tub filled with books... soo many books... <3

 

If you don't mind my asking but... what is kobo? I've never heard of it.

 

Heh, I got lucky; when I m0ved out on my own, shelves were the first thing I splurged on. :D After many years of double-shelving and floor-shelving and 'can I please put more shelves in here seriously come on'.

 

AAAAAAAH! Another fan! Yes *flappy hands* Everytime I bring up Elfquest, I have to do an entire spiel about it~ It's nice to know I'm not the only one out there whos knows EQ ^ ^

 

Oh I can't wait to move out... I'm staying in the school dorms right now, but after I graduate in may, I have to move back to my parent's house :(, the moment I pay off student loans and get my own apartment/house though, there will be wall to wall shelving everywhere 0.o

 

Good luck! :( I had to move back in with my parents for a bit too; I've only had my own place for a year. Built-in custom-built bookshelves covering an entire wall were so worth the wait, though.

 

it's an ereader, like kindle, with a store and an app and stuff.

 

i have a kobo too; it's another type of e-reader. when you go through books as fast as i do they're a delight, especially since the books on my bookshelves are already two deep.

one of my middle school classmates had a pair of bibliophiles for parents; one of them even did professional book reviews. they had built-in shelving in almost every room, and the first time i visited her house i thought i'd died and gone to heaven.

 

I found a paperback at a garage sale - and a few years ago, I managed to track down the comic online.
One day I will find and buy all of them.

 

Ah I see. I've never been particularly fond of ereaders, though they are good for saving space... I still prefer handling physical books XD

 

i'm about equally fond of both.

 

My dad gave me his books (the entirety of The Grand Quest or the first series) and I have... hmm... some individual comics and one other collection but I can't think of the name right now). Yeah, they have the entire series archived online, I was sooo happy when I found out about that. That's one of my goals too (along with finishing collecting the roroken manga, sigh, they're so hard to find now...). I am still waiting for that movie they've been promising for the series but it looks like it'll never come...

 

But the glorious shelf-related gravitas!

... yeah, I spent too much time in libraries as a kid. >>;

 

physical books are nice and easier to flip through, not to mention easier to loan to other people, and there's a definite aesthetic appeal. but when i'm lugging around a bunch of textbooks being able to just add a reader is great for my back. plus then i don't have to pick just one to take with me for the day.

in the end i just want to read everything and i'm perfectly happy with whatever format it comes in.

 

... that really does sound like heaven... ah, I want to be surrounded by books forever...

 

Libraries are wonderful too, I could spend hours in them reading, especially when there are seats that are actually comfy...