Haven't ranted thus for a while

A fairly interesting article on the revival of the Book of the Month Club - not quoting the massively naff headline - but there was one passage when I was going END TIEMZ B HEER!!!:

[T]he Club is fueled partly by an active presence on social media. Members regularly post photographs of themselves — or their pets — with their purchases. Also popular are “book bentos,” artsy photo displays of club books arranged with objects relating to their themes or subjects.

Y O Y???? In the time it takes to do that, you could be reading.

As a palate-cleanser, here is some shelf-porn that seriously presses my button to ring my bell: 16 Floor-to-Ceiling Bookshelves That Will Make Your Jaw Drop. This pretty much gets it (though who are those philistines who have objets d'art in space where they could fit MOAR BOOX?), unlike the various poncey interior design notions I have ranted about over the years, where clearly the persons designing them never read a book and treat the whole question as one of aesthetics.

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