>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.

We have a library in our house, with one full wall of shelves and some shelves on the other three walls. We've nearly filled the shelves and had to add some overflow elsewhere in the house. I'm also trying to cull out some books I'm sure I won't want again, but I tend to buy faster than I remove.

Tamar