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>1 Eramirez156: Wow! That would be overwhelming. 📚
3Keeline
The books in the video look to be rather modern. The wide shelving is straining under the weight and there is visible sagging. The length of the span, the weight per unit of length, and the material of the shelf are all contributing factors. But I'm sure they did the best they could.
We have a similar issue on a smaller scale. It is only 5,000+ books that we took possession of in early July from a dear friend with a grim cancer diagnosis that would not allow him to live in his home of the past quarter century. When he contacted me in mid-June, he thought he had only weeks left and wanted us to travel to his home to claim the books and send them from Chicago to Southern California.
We spent about 4.5 days to pack up 330 boxes (12x12x8 inches, each between 12 and 26 pounds) to reach the 5,200 pound capacity of an 8x8 ft. PODS container.
The cost to get these here was very high but the collection built over half a century has titles and editions that are not seen "in the wild" or even on eBay anymore. In some cases they are the best copies extant. We are offering one of the books on a live auction site to try to recover some of the moving expenses. This is a true first printing of the first Hardy Boys book in condition that is just not findable as such.
https://pbagalleries.com/lot-details/index/catalog/711/lot/235697
This photo shows less than half of one of the rooms of the collection along with the storage container when it arrived on our drive way.
We set up warehouse shelving. It came with particle board shelving and when loaded it started to show sagging. So I had to get plywood shelves and move all of the boxes two more times (total of 5.2 tons on Tuesday and 5.2 tons on Thursday).
Integrating these collections, because there was a fair amount of overlap with what we had, means a process of comparing books and updating LT records and adding new ones for the copies I did not have before. It is a big job but very satisfying as I see the nice copies get even better for books that are not all that easy to find.
James
We have a similar issue on a smaller scale. It is only 5,000+ books that we took possession of in early July from a dear friend with a grim cancer diagnosis that would not allow him to live in his home of the past quarter century. When he contacted me in mid-June, he thought he had only weeks left and wanted us to travel to his home to claim the books and send them from Chicago to Southern California.
We spent about 4.5 days to pack up 330 boxes (12x12x8 inches, each between 12 and 26 pounds) to reach the 5,200 pound capacity of an 8x8 ft. PODS container.
The cost to get these here was very high but the collection built over half a century has titles and editions that are not seen "in the wild" or even on eBay anymore. In some cases they are the best copies extant. We are offering one of the books on a live auction site to try to recover some of the moving expenses. This is a true first printing of the first Hardy Boys book in condition that is just not findable as such.
https://pbagalleries.com/lot-details/index/catalog/711/lot/235697
This photo shows less than half of one of the rooms of the collection along with the storage container when it arrived on our drive way.
We set up warehouse shelving. It came with particle board shelving and when loaded it started to show sagging. So I had to get plywood shelves and move all of the boxes two more times (total of 5.2 tons on Tuesday and 5.2 tons on Thursday).
Integrating these collections, because there was a fair amount of overlap with what we had, means a process of comparing books and updating LT records and adding new ones for the copies I did not have before. It is a big job but very satisfying as I see the nice copies get even better for books that are not all that easy to find.
James
