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A vertical confession of everything you meant to read.
means A piece of furniture with horizontal shelves, used to store and display books.
from A transparent compound of "book" and "case." "Book" descends from Old English "bōc," likely tied to the beech tree — early writing surfaces were possibly beech wood or bark, a link mirrored in other Germanic tongues. "Case," meaning a container or box, came through Old French "casse" from Latin "capsa" (a holder, a chest), from "capere," to take or hold. So a bookcase is, quite literally, a holding-box for the things you take in — or mean to.
- tsundoku
- Japanese word for buying books you never read
- deadly weight
- Tip-overs kill people; anchor your shelves
- secret doors
- Hidden bookcases predate spy films by centuries
- shelf strain
- Books exert real bending force on wood
- status symbol
- Romans displayed scrolls to flaunt their education
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billy bookcase ikea — best-selling bookcase in history with over 100 million units sold worldwide since 1983