Book shelves

MARNEN

MARNEN

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I need to make some book shelves.
Any good ideas for keeping the books on the shelves ?
I had in mind horizontal rails along the front but at least one of these would need to be removeable.
Then what about stopping the books from flopping sideways if the shelf is not full of books.
What do you have onboard ?
 
I have brass reatining bar that hinges down in front of the books to stop them falling out. Someone told me it's a method Camper & Nicholson's used on their yachts.

The best way I know to stop books falling sideways is to buy more books to fill the space.
 
Traditional is a wooden bar across the front of the books, sitting in slots so that it can be lifted up and out.

I'm planning to make one for Ariam with a kind of half-height door across the front, hinged across the bottom. It will have brass rods built into it, working as bolts into the frame at each end, and a pair of small knobs which you pinch together to retract the rods, thus making it one-handed so that the other is free to remove the book.

I agree with Parsifal that the best way to hold the books up is to have enough of them to fill the shelf. I keep a list of things to take next time I go to the boat; I once wrote "4 inches of books" as that was the gap needing filling :)

Pete
 
I have a small fiddle on the shelf plus a 4mm line stretched tight about 60mm above this to hold the books from coming out. A brass bar is too heavy. The last book is turned sideways to hold them fairly upright
 
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