Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion

I recently discovered this and I think it is just the coolest thing. I think I might try and make my own.


Check out how to make one for yourself here: http://imgur.com/a/KUyfg

I've even already got my books picked out:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12

What books would you use?

I have had SO MANY people post this to my Facebook timeline, it's crazy! Lol

That is cute, first time I"ve seen it. Wouldn't go with my layout but it's a cute idea.

Just for fun, looking at numbers on my bookshelf, it'd be something like:

1 - One for the Money
2 - A Tale of Two Cities
3 - Three Act Tragedy
4 - Sing the Four Quarters
5 - Five Minutes Alone
6 - Six Gothic Tales
7 - The house of Seven gables
8 - Your Eight O'Clock is dead
9 - Nine Coaches Waiting
10 - Ten Big Ones
11 - Station Eleven
12 - Twelve Sharp

Very cool!

It would be so much fun in a library with high ceilings or even a game room in a house with cathedral ceilings.

That was fun my personal library wouldn't fill out the clock.
1- Edmund Persuader VOLUME1
2- The second Duchess
3- The Third Heiress
4- Four Sisters all Queens
5
6- The Last wife of Henry the VIII
7
8- The eight
9
10- Ten Thousand Islands
11-
12- Midnight Star

Guess what? I did it! Check this out:







What do you think?

Looks good Joseph.


Would love something like this in my library but it would have to be waaay scaled down for my small room.

Oh it's beautiful!! What a great idea for us book lovers!! So envious!!

Oh Joseph, it looks great, better than the original concept even :)

Get any fun comments on it yet? Was it easy to do? Happy with how it looks?

Is Amanda Quick a sexy time?!!!LOL

Erin (Paperback stash) *is juggle-reading* wrote: "Oh Joseph, it looks great, better than the original concept even :)
Thanks.

Get any fun comments on it yet?
Actually, yeah. I posted a couple pics on Facebook and I've gotten comments from some authors! Funny thing is, almost everyone who has commented has said the same thing: "Cool!" :-)

Was it easy to do?
Not too difficult. Had to set up a scaffold propped on two ladders since I put it up right over a stairway. I did all the measurements on a CAD program so that everything would be spaced just right.

Happy with how it looks?"
Pretty much. I might go back one day and reprint the covers on nicer paper, but for now, I do like it quite a lot.

That is so neat. I just shared it with a couple of people that I work with!

That is pretty cool... Did you use copies of the covers or actual books? I have seen some pictures of these with plastic holders so you can change out the books.


My books would be:

ONE Wore Blue
TWO & Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retelling of Mother Goose
The Clockwork THREE
I Am Number FOUR
FIVE Women
Hot SIX
Snow White & Her SEVEN lovers
EIGHT Girls Taking Pictures
The NINE Lives of Chloe King
TEN Girls to Watch
The Journey of ELEVEN Moons
The TWELVE

Melissa wrote: "That is pretty cool... Did you use copies of the covers or actual books? I have seen some pictures of these with plastic holders so you can change out the books."

Thanks. I printed out scans of the covers and framed the 8.5"x 11" pictures. I figure if I ever do want to change the books, it would be pretty easy to just change the pictures in the frames.

That is good thinking, you can easily update it when ever your reading interests change or you discover a new book.

Domonique wrote: "This looks pretty awesome, but I don't have enough books to fill each slot."

That's no excuse. ;-) You don't have to be so specific as to make sure a book's title has a word such as "Two", "Five", or "Eleven" in it. For example, for the number five I used a book that has "Fifth" in the title and twelve is "12th." Also, for my seven, I used the book Snow: A Retelling of Snow White and the SEVEN Dwarfs. And really, you know the positions of the numbers on a clock, you can use any books you want. If you want to create a beauty like this of your own, just have fun with it. :-)