Pile of books cardboard stool

This cardboard stool, printed to appear to be a stack of books, can hold up to 200kg.

Tabouret en carton Leseratte (via Cribcandy)

[#1 posted by technogeek , February 12, 2009 1:59 PM]

One furniture catalog I get (for reasons beyond my ken) carries several cabinets styled to look like piles of oversized leatherbound books. (File drawer is two books high; normal desk drawer is one.) Nice thing about that one is that it has some dimensionality to it, unlike the flat sides of this (admittedly MUCH cheaper) box.

Outside of "what book lover leaves them piled on the floor?", and the large size, and the fact that cabinets actually do have feet (ruining the effect), it's a cute conceit.

[#2 posted by Brainspore , February 12, 2009 2:05 PM]

"I'm such a voracious reader that there are books in my stool!"

[#3 posted by edinblack , February 12, 2009 2:08 PM]

Looks like it's got plenty for Germanophiles!

[#4 posted by Takuan , February 12, 2009 2:11 PM]

good idea, instead of chucking these old books I'm going to glue some into a block. What do you think? PVA? Epoxy? I don't care about the weight.

[#5 posted by thickdot , February 12, 2009 2:15 PM]

Check out this Sit Up & Read platform bed:

http://www.moreplatformbeds.com/NoBot/Japanese-Style-Platform-Bed.htm

I'm considering getting it.

[#6 posted by wolfiesma , February 12, 2009 2:16 PM]

Whoa there, partner. Why would you want to introduce those chemicals into your environment? I thought you were going to donate them to the library. Give someone else a chance to read them before you start spreading toxic glue over everything. (Said with love, of course.)

[#7 posted by Robbo , February 12, 2009 2:24 PM]

Brainspore's comment made me laugh so hard I forgot what I was gonna say.

[#8 posted by Brainspore , February 12, 2009 2:33 PM]

Thanks. It was either that or a "Reader's Digest" pun.

[#9 posted by Boeotian , February 12, 2009 2:44 PM]

#1: "what book lover leaves them piled on the floor?"

The ones that love them so much that there's no possible space for all of them in shelves. I am fortunate enough to know quite a lot of those lovers, and to count myself among them.

[#10 posted by Gilbert Wham , February 12, 2009 2:47 PM]

"what book lover leaves them piled on the floor?"

Unless I can turn my flat into some sort of Klein bottle, allowing me to utilise extra dimensions for shelving, me, that's who.

[#11 posted by JJR1971 , February 12, 2009 2:52 PM]

Piled on the floor, spare chairs, coffee tables, etc. Oh yeah, I'm there. My apartment is so cramped, though, I wouldn't have room for this stool.

I like some of the book-shaped furniture they make for children's libraries, too; those are cool.

[#12 posted by Anonymous , February 12, 2009 4:53 PM]

On the same theme, here is the "Bibliochaise" aka library-chair
http://archrecord.construction.com/products/tradeshows/images/0901_TS8.jpg
http://www.nobodyandco.it/

[#13 posted by buddy66 , February 12, 2009 4:56 PM]

I could use a couple of these, seeing as how I SAVAGED MY LIBRARY LAST YEAR, damn my eyes!

I guess I miss the visual comfort they apparently gave me.

Anybody know of any stateside vendors? I'm inquiring...

[#14 posted by Takuan , February 12, 2009 5:17 PM]

relax Wolfie! Nobody wants a 1984 Physicians Desk Reference or a CRC 51st Edition Handbook of Physics and Chemistry. Gawds, just the obsolete references alone should make a sofa at least.

[#15 posted by wolfiesma , February 12, 2009 5:31 PM]

I dunno.... physics and chemistry handbook and a physician's reference might go over okay with these guys...

http://www.africanlibraryproject.org/

The deal is, you pay to have a box of books sent to small start-up libraries in Africa so that people with limited access to books might have more. Just a thought.

[#16 posted by GoldMatenes , February 12, 2009 7:11 PM]

Let's get this out of the way.

THEY'RE NOT REAL BOOKS.

Read the post again.

[#17 posted by Anonymous , February 12, 2009 8:32 PM]

People who have book-decorated furniture make me cringe. Why would anyone want to *look* like they have piles of old books around without actually *being* the kind of person who has piles of old books around?

Go drop a hundred bucks at a thrift store/library sale and stuff your apartment the proper way.

[#18 posted by Takuan , February 12, 2009 11:16 PM]

thought about that Wolfie, but considering the mass, the distance,the staleness of the data - it make no sense. It's like developing countries getting deluged with donated "computers" that are so old they are e-waste, even if they work.

We should have a Sacrifice of the Books Festival. Mid-summer bonfires and dedications at library shrines. We can placate the "every tome is sacred"
(hey..musical number in there...) by giving them the chance to "rescue" the offerings. So long as they store them in their own homes.

[#19 posted by buddy66 , February 13, 2009 6:03 AM]

#17 Anonymous:
"People who have book-decorated furniture make me cringe ... Go drop a hundred bucks at a thrift store/library sale and stuff your apartment the proper way."

Sure. And where will you be when it comes to shlepping all that shit up and down stairs, across town, apartment-to-apartment, house-to-house, across country? Bah.

You'll be typically anonymous then.

I want those goddamn dead trees scanned and online, all of them, every dusty, smelly, heavy, fucking one of them!

--former bookstore owner

[#20 posted by Piper , February 13, 2009 9:13 AM]

I like Takuan's idea. The idea of using truly obsolete books instead of a printed box makes it cooler. Why not use good old Elmer's School glue? It's cheap and non-toxic. Similar to bookbinder's PVA, just not as flexible when dry.
I know --it's made of animals --somebody's gonna complain...

[#21 posted by Gilbert Wham , February 13, 2009 11:12 AM]

Never mind obsolete books, what about ones that are, well, fucking rubbish? As an SF and second-hand book aficionado, there are many tomes which I acquire that are subsequently hurled across the room with a curse as they are fucking awful (actually the last one I did that with was bought new on a whim. You never can tell). Furniture is all a lot of books are good for.

[#22 posted by GoldMatenes , February 13, 2009 5:26 PM]

#21 Gilbert Wham -

Your comment about hurling books across the room meshes so nicely with your name it made me smile.

And it's true. If you wandered down to your local thrift store and rifled through the SF books, you'd hear your internal sense of narrative screeching in pain.