Contents of a researcher’s bookcase

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posted on 2025-06-12, 13:54 authored by Matthew PartridgeMatthew Partridge

<p dir="ltr">A single-panel pie chart breaking down five typical bookcase uses—display-only “glossy” books, paperweights, hand-me-downs, hidden GCSE guides, and under-utilized references—satirising how academics actually store books.</p>

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2017-11-15

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Pie chart showing five humorous categories of books on a researcher’s shelf.

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(no conversation) showing off books (not for reading) paperweight books holding down random scraps of paper books left by the previous office occupant copy of a GCSE revision guide hidden behind the other books that they secretly have to keep looking in books which have a single useful page but are otherwise never read