Invisible Book Shelf

Cast levitation level 7 on your books!

Step 1: What You'll Need

Book
Good sized "L" Bracket
Carpet Knife
Pen
Small wood screws (of the flat headed variety)
Large wood screws
Tape Measure or Ruler
Glue
A Stack of Books for Weight

A friend at work gave me a stack of Stephen King books that were collecting dust in his garage. My previous two shelves from the introduction were free books that my public library was trying to get rid of.
Use a book you don't mind never reading again.

Comments

[volvoman37]

i read this one, decided i needed some decorations, and went to town on it. simple, effect is great. thanks for this!

[tomfoolery]

Dude, not to be mean but the books in your pictures are way to high. I would sugest making it about eye level. Unless your just realy tall.. Btw, GREAT instructable!

[Trainwr3k]

Hunter S. Thompson, nice. Good instructable btw I plan on doing it.

[artista]

Wonderful idea!!! And very good explained.

[polymathism]

easy to follow, and after the first one its clockwork. i made a zipper like format. good space saver too!

[Browncoat]

That looks FANTASTIC!!

[archenteron]

That looks so good.

[offseid]

Great Instructable! Here's mine. A possible modification would be to make the shelf book a "secret compartment" or hollow book!

[daveraven]

Thanks a lot for this great instructable! The directions and pictures were very clear. Here are pics of my shelf:

[chrislrob]

My first instructable! Most excellent!

[shooby]

This is how it should be done, with lots of books, attached lower to the ground. Like this, it's subtle, looking almost as though the books are stacked on the ground, until one inspects further. Good job Artista. With a stack of 6 books in the middle of the wall, it's too 'Disneyland'. People might scratch their heads at it, but in the end of the day you have a stack of 6 books that you don't care about sticking out of your wall.

[OmegaChicken]

Here's my attempt. I used some nice, gilded, leatherbound editions of the Homeric epics with just god-awful, rhyming English verse translations. I couldn't stand ever reading them, besides I have better translations and I know ancient Greek anyway, so I don't even need them! HA! In your face, publisher. On to the project, I didn't have a drill, so I couldn't put pilot holes in the pages, but I found that simply placing the screw that holds the pages together more into the center of the page instead of toward the corner, I got less "wrinkle" on the sides. There was still a lot of wrinkle on the edge of the pages, but that faces the wall anyway so there's no problem there. All in all, not a bad first attempt. In fact, this is the first project I'd done with instructables.com. On the plus side, most of my literature is heroic prose or poetry, so the shelves match their contents. Don't ask me why I mounted them like that. Shoulda done the red one a little higher. Awesome Instructable!

[Ninth]

Are all those books stacked on the one "shelf" or do you have a lot of books connected to the wall and just filled the gaps? If so, how many are connected to the wall?

[SirJoey]

Way kool! Thanx for sharing this one! Here's mine:

[epoh]

Hi everyone,
I'd like to thank for this great instructable!

I was planning to do my bookshelf for about 6 months. When I finally got to round to it, it took me about an hour or two.

I used an old calendar notebook with metal binding on the side so I can hang my earing collection :)

Thanks again!

[stewent]

Here is the one I built. I did it with two brackets and it turned out great. Awesome instructable!

[andydrumer12]

 Here's a pic of the one I made. I liked the way the books look standing up, kinda defeats the purpose but oh well..

[J@50n]

 no, i like the way you have the books set upwards! 

[CraftyGal1965]

How cool is that!  Wow!

[ahurlimann]

You've just inspired me. Wow, I love how you used the spiral notebook to make it more "fun"ctional!

[frenzy]

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[canida]

Nice mod!

[dorxincandeland]

Project of the day! Woot!

[donjoy]

For those who are lazy to make this :) :
http://www.welldonestuff.com/2012/10/invisible-bookshelf.html

[strumok]

I built these for a friend, and she had the idea of putting knick knacks on them. The placement is supposed to be semi-random. Thanks!

[ScooterChick]

Photo and explaination are unclear

[ptninjamonkey]

that awesome and im going to do it

[serpentboy19]

i've just tried this. im thinkin of modifying it so it is a floating dvd case.if it works i'll post a pic

[toni4567]

Awesome! I can't wait to try this!

[nkk07]

still a good way to ruin books.:O

[mrmerino]

It's not like they print millions of them a day.

[jarencibia]

Very cool. I'm gonna do this I tell you

[Nukarac]

drill a pilot hole would help with the pages not wrinkling up

[jarencibia]

Agreed

Pilot hole with a dab of wood glue in it.

http://www.engineershandbook.com/Tables/woodscrewpilotholes.htm

[bobohihi]

i love the eragon series!!!

[mivanov5]

Why ruin a book? Just get Conceal shelf from Amazon for $10. Way easier for the same effect.

[brunamaral]

It's a crime destroy a stephen king's book!!!!!!

[Rastlosen]

Alot of Stephen King's books have been so over printed that many thrift stores throw them away as there are often 5-10 copies of each on the shelf. No harm to make use of something that would otherwise end up in a dumpster.

[ruben710415]

jlblo8d

[urtlesquirt]

Nice book combo. Science fiction plus Eragon.