My brother-in-law, the self-proclaimed Swedish Okie and country bumpkin, is a book collector. This is only one of his meticulously organized bookcases.
Though his library is vast, most books fall into his narrow fields of interest: art, design, travel, photography, and ancient civilizations.
He has many books on home design, like Designer Apartments, Contemporary Houses, and editions from the Interiors and Conran series. I recently noticed with amusement that he has a copy of Sherlock Holmes shelved among them.
It could be a how-to book on elementary home design. Or maybe its presence there will remain a mystery.
ah yes. He is one of the remaining few of us who treasure our actual books.