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Posted: Dec 06 2005 at 6:25pm | IP Logged Quote LLMom
I am having a hard time with book storage. We have many book shelves for our numerous books but they get pulled off of the shelf by our baby and then chewed. The other ones, the spines are getting bent or broken from toddlers and preschoolers shoving them back on the shelf. How can I store them to solve these two problems. With the last baby, I boxed up the books on the lower shelves for about 6 months but that really wasn't a hit with the kids.

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Posted: Dec 06 2005 at 7:37pm | IP Logged Quote MEBarrett
I use lots of wicker laundry baskets. I just pile them in there. I also have baskets that we can stand the books up in facing outward. Neither solution is ideal but it saves on the pulling out of the shelves problem. Just creates a "putting them back in the basket" problem. But that goes quicker than reshelving. I try to keep them sorted by subject or sometimes by reading level.

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Posted: Dec 06 2005 at 9:04pm | IP Logged Quote Rachel May
I use a similar system, but with cheap wood storage cubes that I got at the craft store. I use them like bins with the books standing up and down. You can flip through the books like we used to do with records at the record store.

That does not solve the issue of the baby pulling them out and chewing, but it does take care of odd sized books like really tall ones or board books (they have their own bin). Since the bins are wood, they don't tip like my nicer looking baskets used to. If I were artsy I would paint them in some interesting way, but I'm not gifted that way. Putting the books in the bins also lets the picture be face front so the kids can easily see the cover art. None of mine can really read yet, so the covers are key.

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Posted: Dec 07 2005 at 1:25pm | IP Logged Quote ~Rachel~
I recently followed the idea that the Demille's use in A Thomas Jefferson eduaction.
You start with a five foot tall bookcase.
The top shelf is scholar phase books... for adults and teens... very organised and logically placed.
The next shelf is the love of learning phase for older children (ages 8-12). The books are placed on the shelf randomly, but neatly with the spines facing out.
The bottom two shelves are for the youngest kids books. They are thrown on there in any old manner. These are the books that if the baby chews or tears them up it is not such a big deal.
The other books are kept in individual bedrooms where the baby can't get at them... it works pretty well... she now just goes into her bunch on the bottom shelf
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Posted: Dec 07 2005 at 7:05pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G
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You start with a five foot tall bookcase.


Now Rachel you had me interested in the Demilles until this -- only ONE 5ft bookcase -- we have more than that in the dining room and that doesn't include the living room, individual bedrooms and the upstairs hall

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Mary G. wrote:
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You start with a five foot tall bookcase.


Now Rachel you had me interested in the Demilles until this -- only ONE 5ft bookcase -- we have more than that in the dining room and that doesn't include the living room, individual bedrooms and the upstairs hall


I had the same reaction...only ONE? I have 5 SIX Feet shelves in the living room alone.

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