There won’t be enough ahem room for our books in the small back bedroom we’re turning into The Library. I don’t think even our great big living room has sufficient wall space for all the bookcases we’d need. It wouldn’t work even if we covered up all five LR windows w/'em. The books will require several rooms.
I’m now actively wondering whether one of the big (4-5 shelves if Memory serves) cheap flatpack bookcases in the attic (once my bedroom) would fit on the short wall on the N side of the LR. I’d love having easy access to all our reference works and other oft-consulted tomes. There’s a small, pretty old bookcase there RN with some ref in it. The atlases don’t fit, and the rest is various stuff no one’s looked at in years 
I’m also wishing the big bookcase from my childhood were much less wimpy (big HCs can only go on the solid bottom shelf, above the cupboard doors), not blah wood painted white, and salvageable.
We need more bookcases than what we’ve got, and I want all our books to live on shelves instead of in cardboard boxes.
There are lots of foreign language and English dictionaires, and other ref works. Lots of books about Ancient Egypt, horses, Tibetan Buddhism, spirituality, art, animals, history, weirdness, and a good am’t of literature, fiction, etc. There are a fair number of books about books and libraries, too. When they’re all together on a shelf, the Nero Wolfe mystery paperbacks measure more than a meter. Mom went on a mysteries jag & bought a ton of old school writers’ stuff, mostly published by Dover. Dover’s so damn cool.
My BF’s got a ton of sci-fi, big HC vintage comics anthologies, and books about art, music and musicians, horror fiction, Irish history, weirdness, and also literature and fiction.
but all reminders are much valued and appreciated!
