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Wall Shelf in Mumbai by Truwud

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Wall Shelf in Mumbai by Truwud

While a case suggests a closed object, bookcases are now very commonly open-fronted, and as such are often really no more than a simple series of shelves designed to hold books. Thus, curiously, the bookcase has come full circle from its earliest form as a simple shelf ( Wall Shelf in Mumbai ), most commonly integrated into the wall in the manner of early aumbries, where a medieval scribe kept the book or codex he was writing, through its development as one of the largest pieces of furniture ever made, typified by the often enormous cabinets of architectural proportions used from the 17th century to recent times and which may be thought of as the direct ancestors of the modern entertainment center. The chief difference between the medieval version and the modern bookcase is that the contemporary type is usually freestanding. Two uprights supporting two or more horizontal shelves, the whole kept rigid by a fixed back, constitute the simplest contemporary form. Given the great variation of book sizes, shelves are often made adjustable, supported on pins or pegs inserted into appropriately spaced holes made in the insides of the uprights. Providing the shelf supports are sufficiently strong, the chief consideration of the successful bookcase builder is to use material rigid enough or of sufficiently thick dimension to resist sagging. A pine shelf, for example, needs to be made from 5/4 material if it is going to be much longer than 3 ft.

 
Even after the invention of the printing press, books continued to be among the most precious and treasured household possessions, and as a result, bookcases( Wall Shelf in Mumbai ), as books became more common, and as libraries increased in size, were invariably furnished with doors — becoming, in fact, cases — usually glazed so that bindings could be protected but admired. An exception was the large built-in university bookcases, the ancestors of today’s public library bookshelves. These, however, were commonly pierced for the chains which secured the books. Another distinction resulted from the fact that books were commonly shelved with their spines to the back of the case, to display the ornate clasps that secured the covers.

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