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I place this is the category of "ultra-pointless"

so let's see....you take a book off the shelf that you want to read...and BAM, all the books fall off.

sweet.

@MrBlahBlah: The kind of person that would own this doesnt actually READ books. (Like the dumbasses that wear glasses to look intelligent even though they dont need them.)

You've gotta' have one hell of a drywall anchor supporting that. I see no bracket extending horzontally behind the shelf, making it look like there's really just one point of contact with the wall.

...good luck with that, Mr. Oh.

@Curves: That's why you need "Books by the Foot!" [consumerist.com]

@MrBlahBlah:

It takes a steady hand. Now you can impress your friends and show off how much you read. Its like a tablecloth trick for eggheads.

Great, just what I need. Something in my house that doesn't have to wait for me to destroy it; it's automatic whenever I go to get a book from one side or the other.

@Curves:
And the morons who drive around in 60 deg weather with their convertible top down and their windows up.

@Way: It wouldn't be a scale if it was connected by more than one point.

@Curves: I wear glasses to look less attractive as a punishment to women.

what upsets me about this type of "art," as an artist, i get pissed that i don't have the resources or time to make a balance toilet. like a free-balancing toilet on top of a large ceramic ball. nothing says ART like falling off the throne mid-push. "i call this one 'pinching off a loaf of pride'."

"There must be something about the form-meets-function nature of a bookshelf that means designers just can't resist them."

Ummm.... what is the function part of this, exactly?

@Git Em SteveDave: One point contacting the shelf, yes. Multiple points securing the apparatus to the wall, however, no.

This scale is obviously not big enough to compare ducks and witches.

@P3nnst8r:
+10
"What else floats?"

"Uh........WOOD!........"
"Small rocks!"

@P3nnst8r: You could always just try building a bridge out of her. ;)

I'm not quite sure why people keep introducing concepts like this. The staircase was functional. Hell, even the chair idea was functional, if perhaps restrictive of comfort, but this is ludicrous.

And what if you have pets? I can just see my cats sending each other sailing across the room by jumping on this.

This looks like it would be kinda fun. It takes up too much space on the wall though.

This is perfect for people that never use their books.

I once helped a bookcase in which all of the books were beautiful leather bound copies with gilded edges. As a reward I could take any one book. None of them had ever been opened. So there is a market for this shelf.

great. so on one side i place my weed for sale. on the other side, i place my counterweight. yeah. i could use this.