2016-01 Book shelf system

It's been on my todo list for a while and books are getting out of control. I have the time over the hols for a big project so here it is.
I really like lundia but I can find it as thin and tall as I want.
I like another particular  type of shelf that has adjustable shelves using an easily available fitting.
I decided to combine the top-bottom shelf lock the uprights idea of lundia with the adjustable shelves.
I also decided to abandon the need for them to be unattached to the wall. They will be too high and thin to stay upright by themselves.

 I added a fixed shelf in the middle as I thought the uprights might bow outward if books were forced in then the shelves would drop off their brackets.

Lots of holes to drill. Measuring and drilling them so that they are right on and clean took the longest time by far. Over 10 hours at a guess.	This a unit frame. I was thinking I might need a X brace and had planned to use wire and turnbuckles. This was just needed to keep the frames intact while handling them into place and  screwing them to the wall. They were more then stable enough to handle so I did dropped that.

Screwing the frame to the wall. That's a complete one to the right of the window.

With the shelves clipped in.	And a double wide set for the bigger stuff.

2011-01 Tristram Shandy CD Covers

Librivox is a community work that produces audio books of texts in the public domain. I've done some readings and some covers. Tristram Shandy is book in 4 volumes and I've made and uploaded covers for 1 and 2 and 3 is nearly done but waiting on reading completion.
I checked librivox, having heard nothing for quite some time and 3 and 4 are done and waiting and covers have even been requested. I want an easy fun PTOM so this is it.

Check the process for creating covers on Librivox: Volunteer CD Covers . Things have changed a bit. There are 2 sizes of preview images, you submit them in a zip and you can do a bit of the grunt work by generating catalog page code

Cool - first the fun stuff: Buff the 2 published images, finish the 3rd and create the 4th.











I used William Morris wall paper designs as the background and imitated a woodcut effect for the images and title text using gimp and a mouse (I must try to get used to the tablet but I've grown to like the mousecut print style) I was going for a 60s English paperback style.

Now create : book_title_yymm.jpg, book_title_yymm_thumb.jpg ,book_title_yymm.pdf.

Used one of the openoffice templates CDJewelcase.odt. I found placing the images difficult to get right and wound up making the images backgrounds for cells that way the border of the cell print on top of the image even if it's not lined up right.
QAD script for making a track listing from the wepage contents list: cut and paste the contents into tracklist.txt then go.

nl -b pCha tracklist.txt | grep "Chap\|Read" | sed s/" "//g | sed s/"\t"/" "/

I used the output of that as the track listing then exported them as PDFs.

All done. I found it handy to make a check list to make sure I got everything right in all 4. Uploaded and generated the code.

2008-10 LibriVox CD Cover

A CD Cover for LibriVox. HP Lovecraft is the reading of choice.

2008-05 Bookshelfs

I really need them. I'd used Lundia but don't have room for it right now so making shelfs specifically for paperback books is the only way forward.
Let's set some goals and restrictions:
I want it modular so I can add and remove and move it.
I want to fill a certain wall with it right now.
I want it to be cheap.
I'd like an arts and crafts look to it.