Please use this link to get the bonus resources mentioned at the start of the video:
https://timothykenny.com/lp/greg-of-reddit-free-resource-package/
*📝The owner of the library featured in this video, Greg of Reddit, is in the comments section as @ClassicalLibraryGuy**
#bookshelftour
📖 Resources:
1. Download a 📦️ 1.4GB file of all the high resolution photos of Greg's library, including 🗺️ labeled map with shelf numbers, and 🖼️ 3D Rendering of whole library
2. Get the Google Spreadsheet of Classical Works 📚️ resources
3. Enter the 🎁 book giveaway
4. Sign up for the live ☎️ Zoom AMA to ask Greg your questions (Spots limited)
5. Get reminders when the next 🎬️ two parts of the bookshelf tour/interview are released
Please email 💌 [email protected] if you'd like to give me a tour of your library for a future video.
💡Guide for watching:
**please see pinned comment**
🔖Timestamps:
**Note: the timestamps for the last 2 hours are in the pinned comment.**
Note: The 📕 emoji indicates the starting point of each numbered bookshelf on the map (see link above).
0:00:00 Intro
0:03:33 🗺️ **Numbered Map of Shelves** (Refer Back to This)
0:05:00 My Email - Can I tour your library?
0:05:38 *Beginning of the Tour - Highlights*
0:06:58 *Beginning of the Tour - Shelf to Shelf Tour*
0:07:00📕Start of Shelf 0
0:07:00 The Loeb Classical Library - Complete Set
0:14:40 The Oxford English Dictionary - 2nd Edition
0:16:40 The Harvard Classics (aka the Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books)
0:20:00 The University Forum Series
0:21:04 The Great Books of the Western World (2nd ed, by Britannica)
0:24:38 The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library - Complete Set (Harvard University Press)
0:31:11 The I Tatti Renaissance Library - Complete Set (Harvard University Press)
0:33:54 Commenter's help requested on pronunciation
0:35:40 Walk-Through 3D Orientation
0:39:10 Moveable Step shelf with staff
0:40:15 On using Google Sketchup to Model his Library Architecture (Renderings Shown)
0:47:00 Earthquake-Proofing His Library
0:58:20 Great Books of the Western World - The First and Second Edition Side-by-Side
1:00:58 More on the Oxford English Dictionary (Full Set, plus Comparison to Timothy's Compact One Volume OED Box Set with Magnifying Glass)
1:05:40 Quick Look at the Macropedia and Micropedia (part of the Encyclopedia Britannica 15th ed)
1:06:00 Books he's getting rid of
1:07:20 Painting of man on ladder in library
1:08:05 What is in the center table in the main library room?
1:09:15 I Tatti logo change on spine discussed
___ Start of Dewey Decimal System - Shelf by Shelf Tour ___
1:10:00 📕Start of Shelf 1
1:10:00 [000-099] Computer Science, Information & General Works
1:13:48 [100-199] Philosophy/Psychology
1:27:10 [200-299] Religion
1:27:30 Different editions of the Bible compared
1:52:00 📕Start of Shelf 2
1:59:50 His wife's influence on the library
2:00:42 How he met his wife
2:02:21 [300-399] Social Sciences
2:02:30 How many (linear) feet is his library?
2:04:37 [400-499] Language
2:20:14 [500-599] Science
2:23:12📕Start of Shelf 3
2:23:22 [600-699] Technology (lots of Photography books)
2:25:55 [700-799] Arts and Recreation
2:31:54 *End of first session, beginning of second session*
2:32:10 The mystery case in the corner of the main room
2:46:44 [800-899] Literature (The biggest section by far)
3:18:10 Chaucer
3:23:32 End of Shelf 3
(Names in Parentheses are the first author on that shelf.)
3:23:59 📕Start of Shelf 4 (Joseph Conrad)
3:28:20 📕Start of Shelf 5 (Stephen R. Donaldson)
3:54:22 📕Start of Shelf 6 (Jordan Robert) (Ends at 4:43:42)
4:44:22 📕Start of Shelf 7 (Voltaire)
4:51:59 Start of Books ABOUT Literature, Lit Theory, Poetry, Verse Anthologies, etc
4:55:22 Start of Anthologies of Short Fiction
5:08:04 Start of Poetry section
5:08:46 How should someone get into poetry?
5:11:15 📕Shelves 8 and 9 - Wide angle shot of I Tatti, Dumbarton, Great Books of the Western World and Harvard Classics along one wall
5:12:47 Brief mention of the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
5:12:57 Collection of Tarot Card Decks (incd. Universal Waite)
5:15:50 *End of second session, beginning of third session*
5:16:22 (False) Start of Shelf 10
5:20:50 How his tastes are changing, and where he is going to add and subtract to his library
5:22:52 Discussion about using Dewey Decimal vs. Library of Congress systems
5:27:38 Start of Shelf 10
5:28:19 Explanation of why books are organized to go across multiple bookshelves at the same shelf-height instead of top shelf to bottom shelf within a single bookshelf
5:29:50 📕Formal Start of Shelf 10 (Masterplots series), which continues onto 📕 Shelf 11 (for first time at 5:35:45)
6:23:00 [900-999] History/Geography
6:27:28 Durant - The Story of Civilization (Complete Set)
6:32:42 A History of Private Life
7:20:20 *End of third session, beginning of fourth session*
7:20:20 📕Start of Shelf 12
7:31:40 Final Walkthrough Tour
*** The rest of the timestamps are in the pinned comment ***