Bookends
- Do you own any bookends? If so, how many sets? If not, do you need or want any?
- Which are your favorites? How long have you had them?
I have exactly three sets. Or, well, kind of….
This one used to have a mate, but it was broken years and years ago, when I was still a teenager. This remaining marble horse bookend now makes a living modelling hats in my closet, next to the skeins of Manos that are probably never going to become an afghan. (You may note that, since the top of the bookend is on the narrow and pointy side, I balanced a spare skein of yarn on his head to give the hats a friendlier perch. Yarn. It really is so versatile.)
Then there’s this pair, also marble. Basic wedge shapes (picked for that reason after the breaking thing happened with that other horse–these aren’t as fragile). At the moment, they’re spending their time in the hallway, giving the baby gate used to keep Chappy out of his grandparents’ room a little extra heft.
This is my favorite pair, though. Two flexible pieces of metal with rubber “feet” that flex across the top and bottom of the shelf to brace against the books. Very cool. They spend their time hanging out on the bookcase, looking like “book art.”
Because, you see, I have so many books that there really aren’t any shelves that have books with a tendency to fall over. (A book needs room to fall over, and, well, you’ve seen my library.)
Which, of course, is why my bookends end up moonlighting as other things . . . what else are they going to do with their time?
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i don’t think i’ve ever owned a pair of bookends, for that very same reason. while my collection isn’t as extensive as yours (well, lemme think about htat, there’s all those books in the basement. . .) my bookshelves are never empty either, lol
Those last two are very cool :o)
I also have a bookend that is marble - it was made by my grandfather who was a headstone carver ;o)
I *love* those metal booksends! Those are totally cool, gf.
Those flexible ones are great!
Ok I knew we had much in common and it totally sealed it for me when I hyper link jumped to your library! Oh yeah….books everywhere! Me Too! I never thought to consider my cook books in the count. lol I’ll have to do that. I love the wire book ends. Those look great for the double stacking on the shelves…but alas….I have no room for “book ends” and they would have to become just art.