Mother of all libraries 4

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    1. afgionti 24 months ago | reply

      Justifiable hoarding!

    2. Schoeneckwren 24 months ago | reply

      When do I move in?????

    3. bagel wench 24 months ago | reply

      i bet it smells nice

    4. DarkPhoenix1191 24 months ago | reply

      holy crap, I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!

    5. 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.

    6. 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.

    7. customer 2326 24 months ago | reply

      wow! awsome! fantastic!

    8. 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.

    9. superman1868 24 months ago | reply

      I love to sit and read in that room

    10. sobca 24 months ago | reply

      Heaven for a Bibliophile

    11. 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!!!

    12. hules7 24 months ago | reply

      I could lock myself in here for years...

    13. 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.

    14. - Dave Morrow - 24 months ago | reply

      wow, love this!

    15. cwhiii 24 months ago | reply

      That is a beautiful room.

    16. 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.

    17. 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

    18. nicohohman 20 months ago | reply

      Now that is definitely the coolest library. Love the lighting.

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