>>>I always wanted a study so when we decided to buy a house we came across this house with the huge game room and 4 bedrooms, etc. The builder needed to unload the house and offered it to us for several thousand less than my appraiser valued it at. I finally had place to put all my books, etc in one place.
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>>>We also had a small formal dining room that I converted to a music room and put my keyboard, piano, guitars, banjo etc into. My sons also moved their different instruments into it as well.
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>>>I started off with SciFi and have branched into several different types of fantasy since then. I like the genre because it doesn't always go the way you are thinking it will.
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>>>Tim
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>>I use the other arrangement. Bookcases all over the house, books piled on every flat surface including three and four foot high piles against the walls on hallway floors, and boxes piled up in the basement. There are only two real problems with this arrangement. First, I can't find anything, and secondly, I have four cats, so I have to keep re-piling the books.
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>It isn't quite as extreme here but I also have piles of books. One of the ongoing projects is to box up the ones that are read and no longer needed and trudge them over to the town library. Without question several hundred pounds of them have gone that way already, hopefully to more deserving homes.

I wanted (and have been advised) to do that, but I've discovered to my chagrin that I am constitutionally incapable of getting rid of books. I'm sure it's a disease of some sort, but once I own it, I need to keep it. Pacus Ratticus?

>At any given time there are 3 or 4 books in the TBR pile on my bedside stand. The one I am (re)reading now is "True Confessions" by John Gregory Dunne. Now there was a guy who knew how to advance a story through dialogue.

I used to put TBRs on a side table in the living room, but the overflow ate them.