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What does your bookshelf say about you?

The man behind the ShareYourShelf.tumblr.com wrote about his project for us:

Your bookshelf is an intimate physical representation of your accomplishments (titles as trophies earned), aspirations (that ever growing to-read pile), associations (that book your boss gave to each employee), personal development (those self-help titles that urged you to talk to strangers), guilty pleasures (50 shades of beach reads), escapes (sci-fi to some, travelogues to others), memories (meeting that author, visiting that indie shop on vacation), interests (the bigger the Star Wars fan, the more Star Wars books) and countless other tells that another reader would unconsciously and immediately compare against their own shelf. And that’s just the ingredients – how you organise, arrange, and display these titles should impart even more insight as to a reader’s personality.

Photographs: Jeff Kaplon (top), Lori McCaskill

(Source: Guardian)