In reply to UKC Articles:
My house is overrun with books, my biggest bookcase being in my dining room, plus three other smaller bookcases (latter containing spillover of mountaineering books from my front/living room). There are then a further 9 bookcases in the house, 2 in my front/living room, 3 in my office, and 4 in my bedroom. These are the dining room ones:
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The main categories are (taking them in the order of the above list of bookcases, then from top) is:
Western philosophy (2 shelves); ecology; medieval history; modern history inc World Wars; Celtic culture and mythology; modern science with emphasis on Gaia; Derbyshire local history; large coffee-table books on art and mythology; music scores/piano music .e.g Complete Beethoven piano sonatas; English social history partic c17-19; hinduism, buddhism and Shivaism; studies of world mythology; modern science; writing: novels and screenplays; art, drawing, painting and photography; coffee table books on the arts, WWII, bird migration etc etc; classic European literature and art, from Renaissance onwards; music, classical music, Beethoven, etc; Classic screenplays, movie directors, film theory and criticism, directing (stage and cinema); nature, natural history.
Encyclopaedia Britannica; spillover of all mountaineering books from front room; reference books.
Novels I've enjoyed most; poetry; major biographies; vinyl and CD music collection.
Classic mountaineering books (some v valuable); coffee table mountain books, inc. my own.
All 2 ¼ and larger format film transparencies; web design (HTML, CSS and PHP) manuals; collections of notes and essays; dissertations; book design; photoshop; huge amount of reference books/dictionaries; UK ordnance survey maps; foreign maps; my notes from working in the film industry (esp with Hawk Films); previous scripts of mine.
Comprehensive collection of British, Alpine and world climbing guidebooks; plus my own climbing log books; main books relating to my latest biographical writing project (huge).
Spillover of books on western philosophy and science (hundreds); huge collection of works by and on Aristotle and the Greek philosophers; more modern novels; more books relating to my latest book project; books written by various family members going back for over a century; the Great War; evolution; natural history and biology; philosophy of biology; large coffee-table size books relating to my latest book book project.
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