A better way to organize and style your bookshelves
While the great shift to digital has greatly impacted physical book sales, consumers haven’t lost their taste for the touch of a real, tangible book: Last year, NPD BookScan reported that in 2018, sales of print books were up 1.3 percent compared to 2017. Books, it seems, are moving off the endangered species list that has claimed newspapers and other print media.
But books, like all physical stuff, need a place to go, and here, dear reader is where I profoundly struggle. I’m an avid book collector who runs an Instagram account dedicated to my ever-expanding library, and a corresponding monthly book club. I have hundreds of books, from coffee table tomes to tattered paperbacks and they are all over the house.
Mark Cutler, an interior designer in Los Angeles, opines that the rise of electronic readers has, in a sense, raised the aesthetic bar of the bookshelf.
“In the past, what was on your shelves was much more important than how your shelves were displayed and this new focus has created some really fun and interesting was to decorate your shelves,” Cutler says.