Shelving books...

I saw this on Gothamist the other day: "Instead of placing the book on a shelf, the book can be turned into a shelf itself."

I only see one problem with this: if I were to use a book as furniture that would look at every day, I'd want it to be a book that meant something to me, but it would be really hard to take a book that I loved and sew it shut and install brackets on it. Then again, it would also be kind of painful to own a shelf made out of Readers Digest condensed books... Maybe Catch 22 is the appropriate choice here.

--John Mark