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- Taken on May 1, 2005
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afgionti 24 months ago | reply
Justifiable hoarding!
Schoeneckwren 24 months ago | reply
When do I move in?????
bagel wench 24 months ago | reply
i bet it smells nice
DarkPhoenix1191 24 months ago | reply
holy crap, I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!
the girl who runs with foxes. 24 months ago | reply
hng, I live in Baltimore and will be breaking into everyones home till I find this library.
The Paige Turner 24 months ago | reply
I can't close out of my browser because I just keep staring at this picture. It's just so lovely. I actually kind of want to cry.
customer 2326 24 months ago | reply
wow! awsome! fantastic!
sanura03 24 months ago | reply
I love books, and I'd love to curl up in that room, but storing my own books that way would make my OCD go off the charts.
superman1868 24 months ago | reply
I love to sit and read in that room
sobca 24 months ago | reply
Heaven for a Bibliophile
kikilove588 24 months ago | reply
WANT
RKJ79 24 months ago | reply
The library does look inviting, and I could easily spend all day exploring through the vast amount of pages, however this reminds me of why I check all of my books out at a public library....I don't have to clutter my home with books I will not read again. Beautiful photo, though!!!
hules7 24 months ago | reply
I could lock myself in here for years...
cadbloom 24 months ago | reply
Just found this on SU and as a Baltamoron, I find that lil nook quite inviting in the "City that Reads (to Believe that it is the Greatest City in America)" :) Did you get to explore those tomes a bit or just wander on through with your lens? Nevertheless, we want to know more about it.
- Dave Morrow - 24 months ago | reply
wow, love this!
cwhiii 24 months ago | reply
That is a beautiful room.
MCRumph 22 months ago | reply
I am someone who has to own the books I read. It wasn't always that way, but it is now. One day this is how my house will look. (I imagine a house built not out of walls [except for the bathroom] but out of shelves.)
Now, imagine all of those books gone, the walls painted white (or worse yet, taupe!) with just a nook or kindle on a table in the middle of a barren room. This is the biggest problem with e-readers, they do nothing to inspire the reader to read or to browse or to blindly pick a book off the shelf and see where it takes you or to revisit those old titles read so long ago (you can never read the same book twice).
But I don't care. There will always be books. Fantastic room.
E67B 21 months ago | reply
This is Johns Hopkins prof Richard A. Macksey's private library. He taught comparative lit and used to hold seminars in this room, or so I'm told.
UPDATE: I found a video. The first minute or so includes a brief tour of the library but there are lots of scenes throughout: www.johnshopkins.edu/macksey.html
C_Har2U 20 months ago | reply
My Dream room
www.dreamer2u.blogspot.com
nicohohman 20 months ago | reply
Now that is definitely the coolest library. Love the lighting.