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!

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[canida]

Nice mod!

[dorxincandeland]

Project of the day! Woot!

[magicash]

Huh, Check this out, someone is selling a product similar that doesn't ruin your book: http://www.smartfurniture.com/products/Conceal-Floating-Bookshelves.html?att=186&cid=1

[spectaculareyedcat]

except if you look closely at the ones they sell you can actually see the little metal tabs on the bottom book.. this is more hidden

[sedwards1]

Umbra has had a version for many years, but this is arguably cheaper (if you have the screws, etc on hand).

[ashman232]

its really very nice and wonderful technique that you share with us.

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[goldenshuttle]

this is simplicity and innovation...great work does not have to be complex..many thanks to you

[gamefreak360]

nice il make one soon

[MMoyce]

Awesome ible :-)

[SamG1776]

This is so cool! I can't wait to put one of these up myself. Great idea for an offbeat book storage solution.

[Phil85]

These invisible bookshelves are great! If you don't want to destroy an old book yourself or simply can't be bothered to make one then you can now buy them on ebay, I spotted this listing for a ready made bookshelf the other day.

[pranjal0005]

amazing creative idea....thanks a lot

[rmtheis200]

um no ty 4 me

[jaryjohn23]

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[XOIIO]

And what the hell is the point of your comment?

[dawnmomoffour]

Yay! I gave it a whirl and made this shelf. Here is my pics. Thought I'd add a side view :-)

[or_ford98]

use the twilight saga, they're useless :)

[ElQuinntero]

i live in an apartment and i dont want to screw up my walls is there any substitute to the wood screw into the stud

[CherylTX]

I once used toothpaste to fill small nail holes in an apartment wall, LOL.