Well why not make a bookshelf out of books? It seems so obvious once you see it in all its glory. Imagine this in a nursery made out of classic board books. Or duplicates of some of your favorites as a child.
Most of us can relate to having a stack of books that will likely never get read again but that are too difficult to toss out because of a strong emotional attachment. This is precisely what spurred on this particular bookshelf made by Not Tom, a London-based design studio. For us the funnest part would be coming up with themes, like, a collection of vintage atlases, thrift store finds of ABC books, or perhaps a random collection of kids books in a particular hue of choice.
The more challenging part for some of us would be the nuts and bolts of how to DIY this. Not Tom doesn't share how to they put their BookBook Shelf together which leads us to ponder how does one connect the books to each other? With glue? Bolts, perhaps? Over to you super DIY readers ...
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I'm thinking that you'd have to drill a hole or two through each book, then use dowels to stabilize them all.... or maybe not. Anybody?
Well, you could drill a hole through the pages, leaving the outer covers of the outside books in tact. Then run something through it, maybe dump a bunch of glue in and then run a doweling rod. Also, you'd want to cut off the back of the books so they are even against the wall. I'd then put glue on the cut pages and attach it to something sturdy yet thin. Cut the backing to the same size as the books.
Hmm, how to reverse engineer this? Ok, how about this: (1) Align the top edges of your books, (2) Maybe about 4" from the top edge drill a hole through each book (but don't drill through the back cover of the left-most book, or the front cover of the right-most), (3) run a dowel through the holes, connecting the books (actually, I think this is basically what sweetcrunchyjewy suggests above), (4) Find/make a some sort of a shelf cleat wall-mount no wider than your doweled (is that even a word?) books, and no deeper than maybe 1" less than your shallowest book, (5) Ream a trench about 1" down from the top edge of your joined books that will fit over the cleat, (6) Install, and maybe tack a few nails through the occasional spine to reinforce. Voilà!
Simple! Well, probably not so much... I'd love to know how Not Tom pulled this off.
or, you drill less holes and put a shelf...