What's the best way to store the book, since I am running out of shelf-space?

Some say having it vertically will wreck the binding off the spine, but laying it flat kills most of my bookshelf space!

Any recommendations will be kindly considered! :ph43r:

I'd say lay it flat and then maximize space by putting equally long (but not as thick - no other book could be that thick) books on top. That's about the best I can suggest.

I say it lay it flat, otherwise the bottom of the pages will be wrecked due to the weight. Even a booksupport won't help, I'm afraid.

I have a book about Ancient Egypt almost the size and weight of Tim's book and the book suffered the above fate.

I will keep my Bavabible vertical, with some protective bubble plastic wrapped around it.

I place my massive tomes on top of my bookcases so they can lie flat, and they're out of the way. And it can be a workout if you reference them often enough. :lol:

Take digital snapshots of each page, convert them to PDFs, create one large PDF using multiple files and store book in a humidor... ;)

Still hasn't arrived in my mailbox... :(

Just so you all know, the book was bound to be durable. I wouldn't like to do it, and don't recommend that anyone try, but I've seen Donna hold one of these babies by the front cover and shake the rest violently around without hurting it. (She was testing its durability, not threatening what she might do to me if I didn't take out the trash.)

Bibliology of a crime!

Jeez... this is the first book I've bought that I almost feel too technically incompetent to read or shelve! I'm busy working on the UV-protected glass case on a marble pillar, with high-powered fans to keep the book (wrapped tightly in Egyptian cotton) endlessly rotating slowly on air, much like the final treasure in a Tomb Raider game. Hopefully the book won't get here until I'm done.

With two kids in the house and no space of my own, I'm keeping the Bava book sheathed in its original bubblwrap and in its white cardboard box. Some day I'll have a wooden lectern and there it shall rest as I pilot my airship over the world I'll judge too harshly.

I figured a rich Hollywood type like yourself would have an airtight temperature-controlled room to store your book in!

The polyethylene bubble wrap is not archival quality, and in the long run, probably not the best storage wrapper to preserve an expensive book. It's probably not going to melt to your dust jacket anytime soon, but an oversized mylar sleeve is the better option.

Is there a good chain store where you can find these mylar book covers? Staples doesn't seem to be in the book preservation business. And those blowdarts you sneaky librarians use only seem to come in sets of at least 25. Right now, I'm doing the same thing Richard is, but I'd like the book properly protected without having to unpackage it every time I want to read.

I hope that wasn't MY copy :o

;)

Vincent