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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverthwait, post: 74694, member: 103&quot;]Nope.&nbsp; If you have a sufficient collection of rare or valuable books, keeping them under glass and protected by lock and key makes sense.&nbsp; Otherwise...not so much.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Shelves that are a foot deep are <i>way</i> too large for the average book.&nbsp; Besides which, keeping one&#039;s china (or horses) under glass <i>does</i> make sense.&nbsp; One can clap books together to dislodge dust, not a method that can be used in the case of the soup tureen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, one of my all-time favorite bookshelves was a serendipitous find at a tag sale.&nbsp; Originally it had been built to accommodate a large collection of dressage trophies.&nbsp; Each shelf was about five inches deep (except the wider bottom one, which was actually the top of a long chest of drawers).&nbsp; EUREKA!&nbsp; It took my huge collection of paperback mysteries -- all of Agatha Christie, all of Ngaio Marsh, all of G. K. Chesterton, etc., etc.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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