We’re going to go out on a limb and make you a bet: if you’ve got any bookshelves at all in your house, your books are standing up with the spines facing out, stacked together so they don’t ...

(I have inherited his pragmatic attitude toward books and deliberately break the spine of every paperback I start, because I like to fold them in half while reading them.) In addition to the Stack ...

How little did she know. “Man, do people hate it,” she says, talking about the way she stacked her books. “It’s silly that I have to say this, but I do read and I like books, too.” ...

Book spines can be arranged to spell out a simple word, or initials. Here, Verbatim Books is spelled out in horizontally stacked books. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune) She pulled ...

“It takes you back.” (No one will dock you style points.) DON’T: Stack books with the spines facing in. “That stresses me out, because how do you know what you’re grabbing?” Brent said.

The idea is simple: take a collection of books, select a few that work together, and stack them so that their titles become a poem. But the execution requires a lot of work - the process of ...