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by Scharphedin2 » Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:26 am
As a youngster, there was a time, when it was my confirmed ambition to read every book in our town library; it was not a huge library, but still… I never was a particularly fast reader.
Considering this early, formative resolve, it is perhaps not surprising that I should have later come to relish the idea of owning a small library of my own. This private library includes sections dedicated to music, books, and films – initially confined to separate areas of my flat, but at present intermingling rather freely in whatever space is still unclaimed in the flat. The films are largely confined to a single room lined with racks of shelves, the films filed in alphabetical order, with those boxsets that cannot be split up, running across the tops of the shelves (just beneath the ceiling) in an alphabet of their own. The library at this point numbers several thousand titles, and there are more titles that I have not seen, than titles that I have seen.
There is a rule that I spend some minutes with each film, viewing a few scenes, looking through the extras, etc, once I receive it. Only after this procedure has been completed is a given film entered into the library proper. Over the last 6-9 months, time has been even more restricted than usual, so these lost souls that have not yet been initiated into the library have taken up temporary residence under my living room table, and along the back wall of my living room. They are a concern, because even once they have passed through the ceremony of initiation, there is no home for them in the library, where DVDs are already lying on top of the alphabetic rows of titles, and a section on the floor is segmented off for the foundation of what looks like a tower of DVDs four units square. Soon, further expansion of the library will need to come to a temporary halt, as I look around for a larger flat. I am trying to time this to the inevitable slowing down in titles released, once DVD production truly slows down in favor of Blu-Ray.
Once we begin to talk in terms of library, the kevyip index loses it meaning.