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In the age of new technologies and double speeds in the public mind, for some time, the idea was exaggerated that paper books were about to die out, there would be no one and no time to read them, since everything would be replaced by iPhones and gadgets. And it seemed like everything was going in that direction.

But suddenly, in our country of surprises and bright minds, the process went in a new, unexpected direction for many - the printed book began to revive, moreover, in its best traditions, discarding the "tabloid" and updating the cohort of worthy authors.

Today, a solid home library is an indicator not only of the intellect of the owner of the house and his family, but also of the high social status of the "surname" of the owners. After decades of cultural chaos, educated and intelligent people in our country really want to continue the best traditions of the noble families of tsarist Russia, when every self-respecting estate had a magnificent library and children began to get acquainted with the book in the comfort of their own home. Proud of personal collections of books and in the Soviet Union, when the country was the most reading in the world.

Nowadays, many traditions have been lost, but when a person burns with his soul for creating his own world of knowledge and favorite books, nothing will stop him. The formation of a home library is an extraordinary chance to create in your house or apartment a cozy island of relaxation for each individual and for the whole family, an opportunity to protect children from the influence of the street, instilling in them culture and a passion for reading from an early age.

For those who value their own image - a great opportunity to make a lasting impression on business partners and business colleagues, both Russian and foreign. Expensive and stylish design, a collection of world masterpieces of fiction and professional literature will make an unforgettable impression on everyone with whom you happen to communicate within the walls of the library. The combination of financial resources (a high-quality library is not cheap) of the owner with the number of available publications creates an unshakable image of a professional with high intelligence.

How to start building a library?

Creating your own “book kingdom” should start with planning. Each book lover has his own preferences, but for those who want to collect the ideal library, we still outline the main directions for collecting literature. There will be 5-7 options.

1. Reference books, technical literature.
2. Publications necessary for professional activity.
3. Popular science, developing literature.
4. Works of art.
5. Literature for children.

For the development of artistic taste and relaxation of family members and guests, it is good to add albums with reproductions of famous artists or individual areas of fine art. Antiquarian books or their facsimile copies, which are not much inferior to the originals today, will perfectly complement the collection.

Now let's talk about each direction of the search in more detail.

Reference publications

These are books that you can refer to. Data on individual sciences, industrial and technical issues, academic disciplines, policy issues, popular data, and even everyday issues can be included.

Of course, in the age of the Internet, there is enough information on the World Wide Web, but, firstly, it takes additional time, and secondly, the reliability of information on ordinary sites is hardly guaranteed. Reference books and technical literature "bring to life" publishing houses, which are responsible for the information provided. Specialized books are published for the most part by narrow-profile publishing houses, especially those who monitor the quality of information.

Therefore, based on the needs and hobbies of family members, reference books in the necessary areas of technical and human sciences in the library are indispensable.

Professional Literature

This category of home library books includes publications that correspond to the professional activities of each family member. Completely new documents are available to find on the Internet or receive them by mailing list, but the basic editions should be in your personal library.

On the shelf of a doctor or a programmer, an architect or a turner, there will always be books on his profile. Professional information tends to be forgotten and therefore should always be at hand. This is especially true of GOSTs, SNiPs and other equally specialized and poorly remembered "rules". Of course, part of the personal library of lawyers will be occupied by legislative acts, economists and bankers - the latest research in the field of the world economy. Any professional literature on home bookshelves creates the effect of professional literacy and dedication to one’s work, which “plays” for a person’s positive image.

Non-fiction books for general development

Each family is rich in its own talents. Someone likes to leave with interests “into the depths of centuries”, others are attracted by the Cosmos, others are interested in how to build a house with their own hands or renovate an apartment. Talk to all family members, look at them closely and find out the interests of each. Create your own little book corner of happiness for each loved one.

Perhaps for the head of the family, such a section will be “fishing” or “chess”, “sports”, “hunting”, “electronics”, “cars” or something else. Do-it-yourself lovers can buy wonderful professional books on construction or repair, wood or metal carving, and many other interesting activities. For a woman, literature on cooking, raising children, beauty preservation, and cosmetics is suitable. A whole section can be devoted to the arrangement and decoration of your home. Children can get carried away with building models, music, computer programming or geography, movie characters and a dozen other "oddities".

Human interests are boundless and varied. It is important that each member of the family does not feel left out and can find their own "island" of interests in a large amount of literature. Neighborhood on the bookshelves of adult and children's hobbies often develops into a serious interest of the younger generation in the affairs of their parents, and maybe even grandparents. Many great personalities admitted that they continued family traditions, having first become interested in them on the bookshelves in their home. If you want your child to share your work or passion, put your books closer to those that correspond to his interests.

Literature of artistic content

The most voluminous section of the library, in which most beginner book lovers get lost, because they dream of embracing the immensity. Let's start with the main thing - any fiction is divided into prose and poetry. A classical library cannot consist of works of the same type; this impoverishes the book collection and turns its perception into "hard work". Therefore, be sure to choose works of both prose and poetry.

Formation of an art library by historical periods

In fiction, it is customary to distinguish 7 main historical periods:

1. Literature of antiquity.
2. Middle Ages.
3. Renaissance.
4. Enlightenment.
5. XIX century.
6. XX century.
7. Since the middle of the 20th century - postmodernism.

Classics ancient world are considered to be the authors before the 3rd century AD of the peoples of Greece, Rome, China, India, Iran, Judea (Israel), Egypt. The most famous authors and works:

• Homer "Iliad", "Odyssey".
• Poetry of Sappho and Anacreon.
• Tragedy works - Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus.
• Comedies of Aristophanes.
• Philosophical works of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.
• The authors of the Roman era - Plutarch, Cicero, Horace, Seneca.

World classics of the Middle Ages (IV- XVcentury):

• Christian Gospels.
• "Tristan and Isolde".
• Chrétien de Troyes "Lancelot, or the Knight of the Cart"
• Guillaume de Lorris "The Romance of the Rose".
• Spencer "Fairy Queen".
• Benoît de Saint-Maur "The Romance of Troy"
• "The Romance of the Count of Poitiers".
• "Robert the Devil".
• Pauline Paris "The Romance of the Fox".

• Dante.
• Petrarch.
• Boccaccio.
• Shakespeare.
• Lope de Vega.
• Thomas More.
• "Gargantua and Pantagruel" Rabelais.
• "Don Quixote" by Cervantes.
• Michel Montaigne.
• Thomas More.
• Leonardo da Vinci.
• Edmund Spencer.
• Martin Luther.
• "Praise of Stupidity" by Erasmus of Rotterdam.
• "Ship of Fools" by Sebastian Brant.

Times of the Enlightenment:

• Swift "Gulliver's Travels".
• Defoe "Robinson Crusoe".
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The New Eloise"
• Choderlos de Laclos.
• Diderot Encyclopedia.
• Voltaire.
• Lafontaine.
• Molière.
• Comedy Fonvizin.
• Fables of Sumarokov.
• Odes of Derzhavin and Lomonosov.
• Goethe.
• Schiller.
• Karamzin "Letters from a Russian Traveler", "Poor Lisa".
• Thomas Grey.
• Richardson.

By the "new times" the literary heritage is becoming richer and more interesting.

ClassicsXIXcentury	XXcentury	Postmodernism
Byron, O. de Balzac, W. Blake, Baudelaire, Heine, Hoffmann, V. Hugo, C. Dickens, A. Daudet, A. Dumas, E. Zola, F. Cooper, J. London, P. Merimee, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Poe, A. Rimbaud, R. Rolland, J. Sand, J. Steel, Stendhal, M. Twain, W. Thackeray, O. Wilde, A. France, Chateaubriand, Schelling. K. Batyushkov, Gogol, Goncharov, Griboyedov, F. Dostoevsky, Zhukovsky, Lermontov, Pushkin, L. N. Tolstoy, I. S. Turgenev, F. Tyutchev, A. P. Chekhov	Ch. Aitmatov, V. Astafiev, A. Akhmatova, A. Bely, Yu. Bondarev, Bulgakov, V. Bykov, B. Vasiliev, V. Vysotsky, R. Gamzatov, M. Gorky, D. Granin, V. Grossman, E. Evtushenko, M. Zoshchenko, F. Iskander, E. Kazakevich, B. Okudzhava, V. Pikul, V. Rasputin, Yu. Semyonov, A. Solzhenitsyn, A. Tvardovsky. P. Valerie, W. Wolfe, J. Joyce, F. Kafka, T. Mann, M. Proust, F. Fitzgerald, W. Faulkner, E. Hemingway, T. Eliot.	J. Barth, Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, C. Vonnegut, W. Gibson, J. DeLillo, H. Murakami, Salman Rushdie, J. Heller, W. Eco, M. Atwood, Hawkes, F. Dick, H. Cortazar , J. Fowles, T. Pynchon, M. Danilevsky, V. Erofeev, E. Limonov, V. Pelevin, Sasha Sokolov.

A luxurious opportunity for the book lover to acquire the best of the world's fiction in collected works. Three excellent libraries have been collected and published by professional publishers:

• Russian classics - 141 volumes.
• World Literature - 200 tons.
• Foreign classics in 589 volumes.

All the best in world and domestic literature, worthy of the richest library. A combination of image design and respectable content.

Women's novels

Love novels, written most often by women, reflecting their inner world of psychological and sensual experiences. Books for the rest of the female half of the family. It is not worth collecting a lot of modern “pulp” here, but the books of the best love classics will decorate any book collection.

sci-fi classic

Every family will definitely have its fans of the fantastic genre. Its elements originated a long time ago, but the fantasy of ancient centuries is practically not in demand. Therefore, the modern library is formed by authors not "older" than the 19th century.

The best sci-fi creatorsXXcentury and today: G. Wells, A. Belyaev, A. Tolstoy, V. Obruchev, A. Tarkovsky, the Strugatsky brothers, N. Perumov, M. Semyonova, S. Lukyanenko, R. Howard, J. Tolkien, C. Lewis, R. Bradbury , F. Dick, A. Asimov, R. Heinlein. Ursula le Guinn, R. Zelazny, P. Anderson, M. Moorcock, R. Sheckley, T. Pratchett, A. Sapkowski. The splendor of fantasy, combined with the excellent literary language of the authors, makes it possible, without a doubt, to put them on the list of "worthy" for any home library.

Literary and art magazines

The best works of artistic poetry and prose often begin their "journey" to the reader from the pages of "thick" magazines. This has been the case since the 18th century and continues to this day. Magnificent luck - to find a selection of old magazines and organize their binding under a common cover, put on the shelf of the home library the first editions of the best works of the 20th century.

The undisputed leaders in demand have always been the magazines Novy Mir, Druzhba Narodov, Znamya, Foreign Literature, Our Contemporary, Yunost. The publications Don, Zvezda, Neva, Oktyabr, Ural and others have always found their readers. Even today, the rich literary heritage that passed through the pages of these magazines has not been fully published.

Other Ways to Build a Home Art Library

For lovers of literature and geography "in one person" the library can be formed on a regional basis - alphabetically by continents and countries. Within each country, highlight poetry, prose, and children's literature. To form a list of authors for each country, you can contact specialists in an online bookstore, or choose literature yourself, focusing on the indication of which language the book was translated from. To date, you can collect a library of works of art from more than 140 countries of the world.

The "backbone" of the best library, of course, will be world "golden fund" of novels : V. Hugo, Dumas father and son, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, Maupassant, Proust, R. Rolland, Cervantes, W. Scott, C. Dickens, W. Thackeray, T. Dreiser, J. Updike, T. Wolfe, J. Steinbeck, E. Hemingway, Goethe, G. Mann, E. M. Remarque, Feuchtwanger.

From Russian authors it is impossible to imagine a home collection of books without the works of A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, N. Gogol, F. Dostoevsky, L. Tolstoy, I. Turgenev, I. Bunin, A. Fadeev, M. Bulgakov, M. Sholokhov, M. Gorky, B. Pasternak, A. Solzhenitsyn and a number of other writers.

For polyglots, you can collect literature in any language known in the family. In addition to Russian, it can be a section of English, French, German or any other literature in the original language. The combination of multilingual books in one library encourages family members to learn previously unknown languages ​​​​and amazes the guests with the intellectual abilities of the hosts.

All the best for children

Any home library is unthinkable without children's literature. Even if your children are well over 20 years old, you can always invite grandchildren and great-grandchildren to your library. In the children's department of a self-respecting home library, there must be fairy tales, poems, works of a prose nature (stories, novels, novels) and fairy tale fiction (fantasy genre).

Best Writers for Children by Genre

• Fairy tales: Russian folk tales, fairy tales of the native people, Ch. Perrot, the Grimm brothers, A. Pushkin, A. Lindgren, G. Kh. Andersen, L. Tolstoy, K. Ushinsky, D. Mamin-Sibiryak, A. Volkov, M. Uspensky and a lot others. Today it is possible to collect a magnificent library of folk tales from more than 150 countries and nationalities of the world.
• Poetry: A. Barto, S. Marshak, K. Chukovsky, G. Oster, B. Zakhoder and others.
• Stories: N. Nosov, V. Dragunsky.
• Tale different topics: A. Gaidar, L. Kassil, M. Twain, V. Kataev, N. Aseev, L. Carroll, N. Nosov, L. Lagin.
• Novels: J. Verne, V. Medvedev, A. Rybakov, K. Bulychev, D. Defoe, J. Rowling, R. Stevenson, L. Bussenard, M. Twain, A. Green, W. Scott, F. Cooper.
• Fiction: K. Bulychev, V. Krapivin.

Issues of visual design of the home library

An ideal library should look stylish, orderly and expensive, working not only for the hobbies and artistic interests of the family, but also for creating its image in front of contemporaries and descendants. Therefore, no matter what the subject of the book you choose, try to create a general sense of beauty and harmony.

Collected works, designed in the same style, books in exclusive binding, equal size of books on one shelf give a magnificent appearance to the library. It is convenient to highlight the literature of one country, one genre, subject, language, etc. with a color scheme. For some owners of book wealth, it is especially pleasant to arrange their favorite authors in the best bindings, which will immediately distinguish them in the general book variety.

On massive mahogany shelving, it is better to arrange rare historical publications in classic brown leather binding. Modern bright shelves will create harmony with light-colored large-format editions. It is not at all necessary that the library matches the general style of decoration in the house. Everything that the owner likes can be created here - from a classic dark office to a hall with impressive columns, high-tech metal or retro style. A stylized library will make a great impression on others. Fantasies are possible on any topic, from an ancient cave to a medieval castle or a spaceship.

A properly compiled catalog and a clear arrangement of books on shelves and racks will help you navigate the book "ocean".

Bookplates and owner's binding

The famous book collections of the past of the great families are distinguished by another feature - the presence of an ex-libris, a bookmark certifying the owner of the book. It was affixed on the left side of the flyleaf. In especially noble surnames, the superex libris was placed on the cover or spine. The sign included the name and surname of the owner, as well as a figurative sign informing about the profession or features of the library itself.

Such a “marking” of books can be called a kind of family coat of arms, which was passed on to descendants. And today this tradition is experiencing its renaissance. People who have collected a huge magnificence of book wisdom in their home library proudly mark it with their “official seal” in order to pass on their heritage to their descendants, to emphasize the peculiarity of their collection to friends and colleagues.

The same purpose, only in an even brighter performance, is served by the owner's binding. They create it by order of the owner and arrange the entire library in this way, or books that are especially valuable for the family.

The home library is a special place outside of time and space. Here, the aura of past centuries and the wisdom of generations makes you almost forget about the present, gives you the opportunity to be alone with your soul and your favorite book, get away from the problems of work and life, taste the peace of silence and comfort in a family oasis of knowledge.

A friend of our family once asked us:

Why do you need such a big library? Need a book - download it on the Internet, it's much more convenient! Books will soon become extinct as a species.

A home library is a space of culture, a way of life, a way of thinking

Indeed, many texts can be found online in just a few minutes. Sometimes on the Internet you can find such texts that you can’t get “live” in any way. But the home library is not a set of texts. The home library is an idea. Space of culture, way of life, way of thinking.

The home library seems to turn the family towards education and self-education. The library can be a method of teaching and educating our children, and not only in the field of literature.

Library: accent in the interior of the house

In the house the child lives, is brought up, studies. When we equip our home, we equip the environment for the formation of the personality of each of our children.

The house is like a temple. The decoration of the temple, its device calls, teaches, educates, directs, adjusts a person.

The house is like a school, a school. A well-designed interior of a school classroom sets you up for classes, makes students interested in the subject and helps to master the educational material.

What we will teach our children with the help of home decoration is for us, parents, the main educators and teachers of our children, the owners of the house to choose.

And if we arrange a home library, we already create it in our apartment, in our house educational space. We create an environment that in one way or another will affect the upbringing of our children. If in a house, in an apartment, in a room we found a place for books, allocated, arranged this place, it means that we have already introduced reading, literature and previous centuries of human culture into the world of our house. That's it, easily. Children live here and see these books, pass by them every day, touch the spines with their fingers... Thousands of books stored in the memory of our home computer cannot play such a role by definition. E-books are part of personal work. The home library is part of the life of our home.

At the same time, the library is not at all the property of rich interiors or large mansions. I myself grew up in a three-room apartment, where, in addition to my parents and my six brothers and sisters, there lived a home library. At first, these were somehow knocked together shelves, from floor to ceiling, in the entire corridor. And there were books in the bookcases in every room… Some people do renovations in a large apartment and throw all the books away like dustbins. Others in wrecked five-walls manage to work with thousands of books. The question is not in square meters and not in the amount of money, but in the way of life.

Library: a form of leisure

What to do in your free time? Often - what catches the eye. Turned on, chess on the table, an opened box with plasticine ... Children "have nothing to do" open books if they are surrounded by books. Because the title intrigued me, because the cover is beautiful (or because it doesn’t exist at all, alas, we have enough books with torn covers…) One child will take an album with views of old Moscow from the shelf - and this way he will get acquainted with history, culture, architecture. Another will open a book about insects, a third will look through the stories of O. Henry, a fourth will be read by Gogol, a fifth will discover how interesting Nechvolodov writes about the history of Russia.

However, if there is a library in the house, it is not at all necessary for children to sit at books from morning to evening. And it’s good: when they have free time, when they have “nothing to do”, let them run, play, make crafts or draw, but the home library will help our children sometimes choose reading in such cases.

Library: Shaping a Worldview

A book is an educator who can educate a person no worse than a “living” teacher

The book is an educator who can educate a person no worse than a "living" teacher. And what kind of educator will we entrust our children to? Anyone, if only he could write interestingly? If only he was once declared a "classic"?

If we managed to instill in our children a love of reading, then after reading one book, they are looking for something else to read to them. At first, they ask for help from their parents. But the older they get, the more often they choose books on their own. They choose books on their own in the place where books are easiest to find, namely, in the home library. They choose books on their own ... from those chosen by us.

With the help of the home library, we form the reading circle of our children. We can collect books that will support our parenting strategy. Reading circle - a certain worldview. And this is especially important if the value system of the family differs from the value system of the environment. And the Christian family will inevitably in some way, and sometimes in many ways, be opposed to the world.

The circle of reading, first of all, includes fiction. Strive for self-improvement, overcome difficulties, listen to your inner world, think and reflect, compare and draw conclusions, learn from the mistakes of others, see yourself from the outside ... All this is fiction. Genius wakes the reader from the sleep of petty everyday life - and at each age this awakening is different ...

Fiction helps to grow creative people in any field. We open the biographies of scientists - and we see that in childhood, great mathematicians, physicists, engineers read adventures and novels. It is also interesting that the holy royal martyrs - both parents and children - read a lot of fiction. At everyone of the children of the last Russian emperor had their own library, in total about 3500-4000 thousand books. And this is in addition to large shared libraries. Fiction in the royal family was often read aloud together - and continued such reading even during imprisonment ...

What are we going to include in the circle of "family reading"? Of course, it must be high-quality literature. But if we are trying to raise children as Christians, we will not keep the great classics like Guy de Maupassant within easy reach and, with all our love for the great Leo Tolstoy, we will put Anna Karenina on the shelf, but we will put Resurrection away. We will treat children's literature proper even more strictly: for example, we will remove the stories and novels of writers in which kind and sympathetic revolutionaries and their little associates help to expose Orthodox "miracles" set up by priests and monks to fool the common people, where the heroes dream of killing rich bourgeois and hated king. I am not calling for a ban on such literature, by no means. But if we strive to educate our children in the faith and chastity of a holistic perception of the world and human relations, then we will perceive the great anti-Christian literature, rather, as an interesting work for specialists, a unique monument of the era or a living illustration of life "on the other side." I do not read such books to my children at night, I do not offer them such literature for independent reading. If children read such books, then let it happen as late as possible. Then these books will be perceived as "strangers".

And there is enough foreign literature. Literature, which was created by great, talented and even brilliant authors - and filled with theomachism, fornication, rudeness. Some of these authors deliberately fought against Christian teaching and/or church consciousness, some were simply a product of a non-Christian, anti-Christian culture. But the more talented the writer, the more interesting he writes - the more readers, our children, are immersed in the world created by the author, the more serious and deeper the impact of the author-educator on the soul of the child.

But still, a significant part of the treasures of world literature are works written by Christian authors, and the world created by this literature is based on the values ​​of the Christian life. And by creating a home library, we offer this world to our children.

Each family has its own favorite books and its own circle of reading. In our family, a child is looking for "something to read" - and here are the shelves with children's literature, from Vladimir Dahl and Korney Chukovsky to Seton-Thompson, Kipling, Hector Malo, Sergei Aksakov, Nikolai Leskov, the same Leo Tolstoy, Garin-Mikhailovsky, Ivan Shmelev, Leonid Panteleev ... If they want adventure, they will find Daniel Defoe, Stevenson, Jules Verne, Walter Scott, Mine Reed. Historical literature? Krasnov about Suvorov or the books of Svyatopolk-Mirsky. Detectives? Here is Chesterton, here is Conan Doyle. Girls will find several shelves with books by Lydia Charskaya, Francis Burnett, Louise Alcott, and for the older ones - on the shelves of Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Pushkin, Turgenev... An old great-grandmother's collected works of Dickens...

If there is a large convenient library in the house, the children will not soon get out of its influence. They will start looking for books "on the side" later, when with the help of "our" literature we have already raised children in "our" value system. We will educate our family throughout our life, relationships in it, conversations with children and with children, our family's social circle. If, of course, we succeed in raising our children this way ...

Library as an incentive for self-education

When we put books on the shelves in our house, we create an opportunity for self-education for our children. I have already talked about the Bogolyubov family, where the father-priest brought up three outstanding Soviet scientists. The Bogolyubovs lived in an apartment where a large common room was at the same time a dining room, a place for mother's music lessons and father's study. And the books were kept here. And this scientific literature, with which their father worked, attracted children, and the kids, having barely learned to read, picked up encyclopedias and other “non-children's” books. Such reading greatly broadened the horizons of children and prepared them for their life path.

Yes, in the home library there can be not only fiction, but also books devoted to various branches of science. Physics, mathematics, geography - everything that is interesting and important for parents can be open and accessible to children with the help of the library. A child walks past a cabinet with books on medicine. And one day he will stop and look, just out of curiosity. And maybe open a book and read it. He will begin to read on his own, which means that his attention will be active, and he will assimilate the information as fully as possible. So the child's curiosity, combined with the availability of books, will contribute to the education of our children. Or maybe it will help children understand their interests in life, help them choose, if not a profession, then a hobby.

I'll tell you about another Soviet academician. This is a physicist, the leader of Soviet mechanical engineering, one of the three Russian winners of the James Watt Gold Medal - the most prestigious international award for achievements in engineering - Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevsky. His father, a priest, later a new martyr, was professionally engaged in history. Ivan respected and loved his father. Therefore, the child liked to listen to the conversations of his parents. The boy was interested in learning more about the story that his father loved so much. And the child went to the parent library, where he read the works of V.O. Klyuchevsky, his father's teacher. Read, remember. And I fell in love with national history for the rest of my life. So to parents, overheard parental conversations and the availability of books in the home library did what a whole staff of school history teachers often cannot do - they gave the child nothing less than a basic historical education and, most importantly, love for native history. Such "unorganized" home education, characteristic of many intelligent families, subsequently compensated for the narrowness of special technical education, and "technician" scientists in this case turned out to be, on the whole, people of great culture.

I myself was also touched by a similar effect of the availability of parent books. When I was twelve years old, my mother was expecting another baby, and at the same time, a lot of literature about pregnancy and childbirth appeared in the house. Out of pure curiosity, I started reading these books. After reading everything I could on this topic, I turned to books on child physiology, popular books on pediatrics. In these books, women were charged with starting to prepare for pregnancy and childbirth “as early as possible,” and I decided that it was time for me to start this preparation. So, inadvertently, "from childhood", I began to prepare for motherhood - "eat right" and even do special exercises for stretching and posture. It’s just that the corresponding books, firstly, were generally in our house, and secondly, they were “in the public domain”.

This is how children who grow up among books find something of their own, find their interests, find themselves in such reading. And what is it that will interest our children - we cannot know this. One child will read novels, and the other - detectives, one child will pay attention to the era of the Napoleonic wars, and the third will solve all the problems of Perelman.

When we collect a home library, when we sort books in it, when we put some literature on the middle shelves (at the level of the children's eyes), we can draw the child's attention to a particular topic. So, in the upbringing of the heir to the Russian throne, Tsarevich Alexei Romanov, the study of native history was one of the most important subjects, and therefore in the boy’s classroom, next to his bedroom, not only maps and teaching aids were placed, but also many books on the history of the Romanov dynasty and history of Russia.

And at the same time, we cannot draw conclusions: here, he is interested in anatomy, he will grow up as a doctor. Maybe a doctor, or maybe an artist (anatomy will come in handy!), Or maybe childhood hobbies will not affect the choice of life path. A boy keen on physics can become a theologian and a priest. Fascinated by history and biology, like the same academician I.I. Artobolevsky, will become a mechanical engineer. But be that as it may, the circle of reading, the cognitive interest of children will certainly play a role. If a child is really carried away by a particular field of knowledge, the inquisitiveness of the child's mind, a keen interest in the subject will allow him to independently receive a real basic education in a particular subject, which means to expand his horizons, which means in the future to become a more versatile person than is possible with organized school and special education.

And it is not so important what area of ​​knowledge the child will be passionate about. This is already a skill of self-education. Already - the joy of self-education. And in any case, it will be a hobby. So - a distraction from the meaningless fermentation on the network or sitting in front of the monitor. In general, a distraction from meaninglessness.

The Internet cannot create an "educational need"

You can say: yes, all these books can be downloaded on the Internet, you can find information in a convenient, interactive, modern format. But the Internet cannot form an "educational need", the Internet does not form the motivation for education. He can only respond to the already prepared interest of the child.

So, we have a lot of books on architecture in our home library. And one of my sons was interested: I think he noticed the large size of these books. He began to look at pictures, read, then copy different types of orders, draw classical buildings with columns. And then, using plans from design books, he began to draw designs of various buildings on graph paper. If we had the richest electronic library on the same architecture, it is unlikely that my eight-year-old kid would have “found” these albums, it would hardly have occurred to him to study the architectural styles of different eras ... And he would hardly have become interested in this topic simply “in Internet”: for some reason, you still need to want to enter some phrase into the search before the great Web gives out its million answers.

In order for our home library to help us in raising children, in introducing them to literature, so that it would be an incentive for self-education for all of us, I made a plan for myself that, in my opinion, can make the library “work”:

1. Arrange the library so that it is accessible to children. If the library is a locked room, it is "turned off" from the space of the house. It would be nice to keep the books so that they are constantly in front of the eyes of the children. If it is possible to allocate a separate room for the library, then it is good to put desks and desktops for children in this library. And tables for parents too. The child will do homework every day, do something - and will always be surrounded by books. And he will also see how parents work with books.
2. Sort books by topic. Not only for the convenience of working with them. Inscriptions on cabinets or shelves, separate cabinets on topics will attract the attention of the child, declare this or that topic as “existing”.
3. Pick up books for children of different ages. The easier it is to choose a book, the more likely it is that the child will make this choice at all.
4. In general, to select books for the library. Mercilessly destroy all base and immoral waste paper. To remove away, higher, deeper great literature, which actively contradicts the family's value system, so that work with "foreign" books is possible only when the basic moral ideas of a grown child have already been formed.
5. While reading, when there is such a desire, make notes in the books with a pencil. For this, huge fields were made in medieval folios. We pick up a book from our library and see that this place interested dad, but mom didn’t agree with this moment. It is incredibly interesting to read the notes made on the margins of books by my husband - these are cross-references to various authors of various eras ... And then it turns out that we read the book as if together with one of our relatives. This is another unique difference between a paper book and an e-book. And in this case, the home library becomes an interesting kind of such communication of one's thoughts to each other through books.

And last but not least, I think. Arranging a library not for "educating children", but for ourselves, simply taking into account its pedagogical effect. If something is important and interesting to us, we will not close ourselves in our “work”, but we will offer it to our children, including with the help of books. If we want to interest children in something, in the same story, we ourselves, together with the children, will study what we would like to introduce them to. Let the children see how we work, what we read. Let's read together, work together. We will discuss what we read, we will compare books, we will offer children the criteria for selecting literature for reading and discuss these criteria together. We will be attentive to our children, we will be close to them, we will teach them and learn with them. In general, we will live together. United home, united values. Our home library can also help this unity, the upbringing of these values. If we really aspire to this unity and these values.

The home library is a multifunctional space. This is a comfortable seating area, allowing you to relax with fascinating reading, and an office. In any case, the interior of the library in the house is carefully thought out so that the search for literature takes a minimum of time, and the atmosphere is conducive to a comfortable pastime.

Despite the development of modern technologies, the emergence of electronic publications, the use of the Internet, bookshelves are still an integral attribute of the home environment. Recently, there has been a pronounced trend in design towards the organization of a library in the house. Such solutions are attractive, functional, and allow emphasizing the noble taste of the owners of the house. By creating interiors of libraries in a country house it is important to take into account a number of nuances.

Much attention should be paid to the organization of lighting. Bright natural light can adversely affect the condition of the book. Sunlight causes pages to yellow. As a result, it is important to decorate the room with heavy curtains, blinds or place bookshelves at a sufficient distance from window openings.

When equipping a shelving system, it is important to remember that books are stored exclusively in an upright position. Modern manufacturers offer a wide variety of shelves, bookcases of classic, original stylistic solutions. When choosing furniture that can harmoniously complement the decor, it is necessary to take into account the rules for placing books.

Choosing a design solution - original interiors of libraries in a country house

Situation,country house library interior design largely depend on how much free space is planned to be allocated for the organization of the book depository.

A great option would be the arrangement of the library in a separate room. Such a decision will emphasize the success and well-being of the owners of the house. When decorating a room, you can give preference to any style direction, create your own corner of severe Norman beauty, unique Empire style luxury, country comfort. Modern designers offer a wide variety of options for interior design. The use of original artistic techniques will provide an opportunity for a beautiful, functional, comfortable placement of books. Capacious, well-designed book storage systems will help to beautifully beat the interior, emphasize the features of the chosen style.

Book depository, living room, office - rational interior of the library in the house

The most common option today is to create a library in the living room. Such a solution provides access to literature for all family members, gives special shades of nobility to the atmosphere of the room. Talented artists offer interesting interiors in small spaces, as seen in photo of libraries of a country house.

As standard, the furnishings of such a living room-library include several sofas, armchairs, a couple of coffee tables and functional shelving systems or bookcases. Hinged shelves will allow you to equip a convenient library over the fireplace, home theater. Free-standing, modular shelving systems allow you to zone the room, allocating part of the living room directly to the library.

To give a special zest to the interior, to soften some restraint, decorative ornaments or personal items will allow. Decorative plates, vases, flowers, souvenirs, paintings, framed photographs of the family will help to beautifully dilute the rows of books.

enjoys great popularity country house library design set up in the office. This option is the best solution for businessmen, business people working at home. In this case, several walls can be used for library equipment, to ensure maximum convenience of searching and using literature. The design style of the library cabinet can vary from colonial to modern.

Any country house library photo which is presented on the site is distinguished by the exclusivity of the situation, attractiveness, functionality. Convenient beautiful design, originality of style solutions, rational use of space are the advantages that distinguish such projects of talented specialists who create interior design, bathroom interiors in country houses. Proper design will turn the library into a real family treasure.

1. "Master and Margarita" Mikhail Bulgakov.
2. "Eugene Onegin" Alexander Pushkin.
3. "Crime and Punishment" Fyodor Dostoevsky.
4. "War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy.
5. "The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
6. "Hero of Our Time" Mikhail Lermontov.
7. "Twelve Chairs" Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov.
8. "1984" George Orwell.
9. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
10. "Harry Potter" JK Rowling.
11. "Dead Souls" Nikolai Gogol.
12. "Anna Karenina" Leo Tolstoy.
13. "Idiot" Fyodor Dostoevsky 14. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde.
15. "Woe from Wit" Alexander Griboyedov.
16. "Fathers and Children" Ivan Turgenev.
17. "The Lord of the Rings" by JRR Tolkien 18. "The Catcher in the Rye" by Jerome Salinger.
19. "Three Comrades" Erich Maria remark.
20. "Doctor Zhivago" Boris Pasternak.
21. "Heart of a Dog" Mikhail Bulgakov 22. "Alice in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll.
23. "The Brothers Karamazov" Fyodor Dostoevsky 24. "Sherlock Holmes" (total 60 works) Arthur Conan Doyle.
25. "Three Musketeers" Alexandre Dumas.
26. "Captain's Daughter" Alexander Pushkin.
27. "We" Evgeny Zamyatin.
28. "Inspector General" Nikolai Gogol 29. "Romeo and Juliet" William Shakespeare.
30. "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway.
31. "Dark Alleys" Ivan Bunin.
32. Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe 33. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
34. Bible 35. "Trial" Franz Kafka 36. "Golden Calf" Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov.
37. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
38. "Quiet Flows the Don" Mikhail Sholokhov.
39. "Generation" P "Viktor Pelevin.
40. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 41. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
42. "Two Captains" by Veniamin Kaverin 43. "Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Keezy.
44. trilogy about a dunno Nikolai Nosov.
45. "Oblomov" Ivan Goncharov 46. "Monday Starts on Saturday" Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
47. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain.
48. "The Gulag Archipelago" Alexander Solzhenitsyn 49. "The Great Gatsby" Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
50. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.
51. "The Wizard of the Emerald City" Alexander Volkov 52. "All about the Moomin-Trolls" Tove Jansson.
53. "History of One City" Mikhail Saltykov - Shchedrin.
54. "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov 55. "All Quiet on the Western Front" Erich Maria remark.
56. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Ernest Hemingway.
57. "Triumphal Arch" Erich Maria remark 58. "It's hard to be God" Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
59. "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach.
60. "The Count of Monte Cristo" Alexandre Dumas.
61. "Martin Eden" Jack London 62. "Moscow - Petushki" Venedikt Erofeev.
63. "Tales of Belkin" Alexander Pushkin.
64. "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre 65. "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
66. "White Guard" Mikhail Bulgakov.
67. "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 68. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
69. "Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk
70. "The Cherry Orchard" Anton Chekhov.
71. "The Castle" by Franz Kafka 72. "The Name of the Rose" umberto eco.
73. "Lord of the Flies" William Golding.
74. "Outsider" Albert Camus 75. "Notre Dame Cathedral" Victor Hugo.
76. "Plague" by Albert Camus 77. "Slaughterhouse Number Five, or the Children's Crusade" by Kurt Vonnegut.
78. "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" Boris Vasiliev 79. "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" Nikolai Gogol.
80. "The Golden Cloud Spent the Night" Anatoly Pristavkin 81. "Picnic on the Roadside" Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
82. "About Fedot - Sagittarius, Daring Fellow" Leonid Filatov.
83. Animal Farm, George Orwell
84. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
85. "Scarlet Sails" Alexander Grin.
86. "Gifts of the Magi" Fr. Henry 87. "Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha" Miguel de Cervantes.
88. "Iliad" and "Odyssey" Homer.
89. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe 90. "Three Men in a Boat Not Counting the Dog" by Jerome K. Jerome.
91. "Ward number 6" Anton Chekhov 92. "Winnie the Pooh and all - all - all" Alan Milne 93. "The Twelve" Alexander block 94. "Kolyma Tales" Varlam Shalamov 95. "Pit" Andrey Platonov 96. "Letters Roman Friend" Joseph Brodsky 97. "The Black Man" Sergei Yesenin 98. "The Noise of Time" Osip Mandelstam 99. "Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift 100. "Cases" Daniil Kharms.

When forming a home library, one must understand that not all books can be purchased. Most of them are convenient to take to read in the state, municipal or school library. But there are some books you should have at home too. What kind of books should be in the home library?

Fiction. In almost every home library, she plays a leading role. Only here you should not “litter” the house with one-day books and cheap fiction. Put on the shelves only those books that have sunk into your soul, which either you yourself or one of your family members re-read from time to time or at least leaf through to remember your favorite episode, favorite quatrain, apt statement. If you use such a filter, then you will almost certainly put several masterpieces of world classics, volumes of lyrics, and a couple of books that at first may seem unremarkable, but nevertheless capable of touching the thin strings of your soul. Find a place for children's books too - they will become your children's friends and instill in them a love of reading, even if you read to them at first.

Reference literature. It is difficult to find a person who has never had to turn to reference literature for help. Spelling and explanatory dictionaries will not forever gather dust on the shelves. Other reference books will also come in handy, especially if a small “pochemuka” or an inquisitive schoolchild grows in the family. It is important to include in the home library reference literature on those areas of knowledge in which one of the family members is of particular interest. Collections of recipes, reference books on home economics, crop production, and computer technology will not be superfluous. If a pet lives in the house, it's a good idea to have reference literature on keeping and raising pets.

Popular science literature. Books on history, technology, psychology and pedagogy can be useful in every home. Choose the best and most useful, the authors of which are trustworthy.

Philosophical and religious literature can also be part of the home library.

A special place in the home library can be occupied by collectible and souvenir publications, second-hand literature.

Interesting fact:

Folios produced before 1850 are considered antique. Books published from 1851 to 1960 are actually second-hand books. Books that were published after 1960 are more correctly called second-hand.

What books should be in the children's home library. Animal books

Kind, touching books about our little brothers can evoke the strongest emotions in children: tenderness, admiration and even tears. Such books should be in every home where there is a child. Communication with animals, even through a book, is a great way to instill in a child all the best feelings. These are wonderful benefits of kindness, love, tenderness and affection.

Stories about animals by E. Charushin ("Tyupa and Tomka", "In our yard", "Big and small", etc.), L. Tolstoy ("Stories about animals"), A. Chekhov ("Kashtanka" and other stories), A Kuprin ("Watchdog and Zhulka", "White Poodle", "Elephant", "Golden Rooster", etc.), B. Zhitkova ("Brave Duckling", "About the Elephant", "About the Monkey ", etc.), M. Prishvin ("Pantry of the Sun", "Stories about Animals"), V. Bianchi ("The Fox and the Mouse", "Like an ant hurried home") and others.

What books are in the library? Arriving in modern book depositories, one can get lost in the diversity and many directions of writings. A very common type of literature are scientific and popular science works. These books are intended for schoolchildren, students, they help to learn about the world around, physical phenomena, space, flora and fauna.

Handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias are widely known. Textbooks remain popular. Reference publications include statistical collections and linguistic dictionaries from different languages, as well as explanatory ones.

The most sought after are classical works. The main number of these masterpieces is studied in the school curriculum. How many wonderful quotes for any life situation are drawn today by our contemporaries in the works of the classics! Good and evil, truth and lies, nobility and meanness, justice and impunity, love and betrayal, wealth and poverty - this is a huge list of problems raised in this kind of literature. Of the Russian classics, it is impossible not to mention L. Tolstoy, A. Pushkin, F. Dostoevsky, I. Bunin, A. Chekhov, M. Lermontov. World classic writers are V. Hugo, O. Wilde, A. Christie, E. Zola, W. Shakespeare. This is not a complete list of classics, whose work deserves reading and reverence.

Documentary literature occupies a special place in the assortment of libraries. In some cases, it is manuscripts. On the shelves of many book depositories you can find very old editions. Among the many publications in Russian there are books in foreign dialects. Also on the shelves you can see bibliographic indexes, dissertations, abstracts.

What books should be in the home library for the child - a reminder of the child. What books should be in the children's library

The following categories of books are most often found in home children's libraries:

• Books for the little ones.
• Russian folk tales, fairy tales of the peoples of the world, legends and myths.
• Tales of Russian and foreign writers.
• Poems of Russian and foreign poets.
• Readers.
• Educational books, various teaching aids.
• Encyclopedias.
• Adventure Library.
• Classic books for older children.

For a uniform replenishment of literary wealth, create a card index or rubricator. With it, it will be easier for you to track which category of books is missing in your collection.

Fortunately, today books do not have to be “gotten” or exchanged for waste paper. Book lovers in the 21st century can freely buy them - the market offers a lot of publications, both modern and second-hand and even antique, in any covers and bindings, in any format.

Today you can form your home library in accordance with your tastes and interests, and this is wonderful - for a long time the existence of books, most people were deprived of this luxury, because books were inaccessible to mere mortals, only monarchs could read, know and the clergy, and books cost unimaginably expensive. In the 21st century, your home library can be whatever you want, and nothing can limit your imagination. Organize your books by author, category, and subject—or by spine color. Give books to your friends and receive gifts from them. Be proud of rare editions in beautiful bindings.

It's nice that you can buy any book without even leaving your home. At your service - all the wealth of world literature in any design. Ascetic multi-volume books in classic binding, limited edition gift books, handmade in leather bindings with stones, metal, wood and embossing, antique vintage and rare modern editions - the shelves of your home library can hold any book, and there will never be too many of them.

You can spend the evening not at the usual TV, tablet, phone, but how nice it is to take and read a book on a winter evening.

1. "Dead Zone", Steven King

The hero of the book, John Smith, gets a concussion, this happens when there was a collision on the ice. After that, the hero of this book begins to suffer visions, discovers psychic abilities in himself ...

2. "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Today, this work is not criticized for excessive fantasy, this novel helps a lot in solving psychological problems, the author considers the themes of responsibility and love. And the novel itself won the hearts of millions of people ...

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

There are five daughters in the Bennet family, all of them need to be married well, of course, this is not easy. The author psychologically supports the girls and is sure that every girl can meet "Mr. Darcy".

4. Manyunya, Narine Abgaryan

This book is great for bringing back childhood. A warm, affectionate book full of adventure, sunshine, sweets! We all come from childhood.

5. "35 kilos of hope", Anna Gavalda

The book is about a thirteen-year-old boy who loves to craft, and his grandfather is an idol for him, and he also dreams of getting into a lyceum where boys study and make something.

6. The Green Mile, Stephen King

The Green Mile is a suicide block in the colony, there is no way out in this prison, only one - the electric chair. But everything changes when John enters the prison...

7. "I am not afraid" by Niccolò Ammaniti

The state of the soul is measured not by the number of years in the passport, but by how many good deeds a person has done or negative ones.

8. “Suitcase”, Sergey Dovlatov

9. The Thirteenth Tale, Diana Setterfield

Our heroine of the book, moves to the house of the writer and unraveling the secrets of the house, realizes that her situations in the house and secrets are very similar to her own life.

10. "Airport", Arthur Hailey

The airport becomes detached from the outside world, where many people gather, everyone lives a “whole life”.

11. Nowhere, Neil Gaiman

To get into a certain secret world, you need to open the door where she is - no one knows.

12 The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

This is a tournament between people in the world of the future, whose name is Panem.

13. Five Orange Quarters by Joan Harris

The heroine of the book inherits: an album with recipes, and her brother a farm. A girl can solve riddles about her family by reading a book.

14. Vague Smile, Francoise Sagan

A novel about how the destinies of a lawyer who ceases to enjoy life and a young student crossed paths. It would seem that feelings have nowhere to come from, yes ...

15. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

16. The Help, Katherine Stockett

A cheerful girl comes to a boring town who dreams of becoming a writer...

17. The Multiple Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes

The protagonist of the novel, the consciousness was divided into as many as 24 parts ...

18. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The book is a prerequisite for the script of the film of the same name, recommended reading.

19. Pasinks of the Universe, Robert Heinlein

20. "P.Sh.", Dmitry Khara

Oleg works hard, one fine day, he finds a travel agency that offers an unusual tour, but only for those who are prepared.

In recent years, with the development of technology, when hundreds of books can be downloaded into one book reader, the demand for ordinary paper books has fallen. Someone hurried to hand over literature to libraries, someone distributed it to friends and acquaintances, there are also those who simply threw it into a landfill. But there are still residents of Almaty who have preserved their home libraries. They will be discussed. Why do they keep books and refuse technical innovations? Is it true that the age of the book is coming to an end?

Gerold Belger, writer

I grew up in a Kazakh village, these were the war and post-war years. There were no books in our village and it was a big problem. The first book I read was called Sinope the Little Indian by James Schultz. I didn't leave her for a long time. The second book "Strike and Defense" is about types of weapons from ancient times to the 40s of the XX century. My father brought the third one from another village, it had no beginning and no end. It was written in Kazakh in Latin letters. I read this book, it turned out to be Dzhambul's collection. There was not enough books and it got to the point that as a 9-year-old boy, I would sneak into my father's office (he was a doctor) and read a book about women's diseases. Then he looked at any girl and thought about her illnesses. Only after the war, books began to appear in the village - they were all in the Kazakh language

There is not enough space at home, so I keep some of the books on the balconies. On one I have literature in the Kazakh language, on the other - in German. I rarely buy books, I do not have time to read what they give. Sometimes I look into the store and buy those books that no one buys: on philosophy, cultural studies. I don't like descriptive literature, I'm tired of it: Bunin, Paustovsky - that's good, but it doesn't feed my mind. I read in three languages: Russian, Kazakh and German. I started collecting books while still a student. My main library is in Tashkent. There, my father converted the chicken coop into a library. My relatives don't read, and books are dead weight there.

As soon as I go out into the street, everyone considers it necessary to hand me their books. Mostly in Kazakh. I accumulate them so quickly that I have to clean them every year and distribute them: to universities, libraries, relatives and friends. I give it out, because Kazakhstan is wide, and the apartment is small. After all, books are living beings, they need to be held in your hands from time to time, caressed. A book is like a woman, she needs attention.

My idol Goethe had a library of 7,000 books. My other idol, the philosopher Kant, kept only 500 books in his house. As soon as 501 books appeared, he immediately gave something away. My friend Alexei Debolsky believes that two books should be kept at home: the Bible and fairy tales. Everything's there. But I haven't gotten to that yet.

Almaz Ordabaev, architect, designer

The home library began to be formed by my father, he was a journalist. The love of books was passed down from my parents. It so happened that of all the brothers, I was more reverent about books, and I was interested in how they were made. I do not only architecture, but also design, and my favorite part is graphic design and interior design. Since childhood, I tried to make books: I wrote, designed. This was passed on to my daughters and granddaughter, they write, illustrate, publish

I have different books, some that are needed for work, some ordinary, some unpleasant, but which must be reckoned with. Recently, literature has been published very poorly. And although the paper has become better and the print, but they are empty, they have no soul, they are made with the left foot. There was only one university in the USSR that trained book design professionals. And now, in Kazakhstan, every former pedagogical institute has acquired a design faculty. All these guys were brought up on advertising, but a book is an object of culture, it is not only a source of information, but also a certain interlocutor

A lot of people say that e-books are crap, I don't think so. Those audiobooks are crap. Do you know why? Because they are voiced by actors, this is acting hack, they play while reading. And so it is impossible. I hope that in the future books will be read by a normal, calm, competent announcer. The e-book and the internet is something amazing. Everyone knows that there is a lot of garbage, but we live in a world where everything coexists nearby.

- Do they give you books?

Yes, they say to me: "It's very good with you, it's convenient."

- And you?

I have such an opportunity - to give my younger colleagues those books that they have not seen

Seidakhmet Kuttykadam, political scientist, journalist

The apartment has a separate room where the entire home library is collected.

As soon as I graduated from the institute, I was presented with a book by Euripides. It was such a rarity. This was the beginning of the library, collected by subscription, books were then in short supply. At first, part of the library "gone", I was careless. But gradually the books accumulated. I made the bookcases myself, with my own hands. What you see is my library, collected over 40 years. I don't know exactly how many books I have

I collect books on history, science, philosophy, religion, classical literature. If I go to Moscow, I definitely buy there. Unfortunately, good books are not published in Kazakhstan.

Only trusted people. Previously, they often did not return and the books left. I take books very seriously and always return them.

- How do you feel about e-books?

I am not very friendly with the Internet, I go with the help of my daughter. My main database is my library. Unfortunately, the attitude towards books is now different. The age of the book is ending. My daughter doesn't read...

Madi Mambetov, PR specialist

Collected about 2000 books. Most of them are devoted to history, especially medieval studies (the history of the Middle Ages). Books are stored interspersed with disks.

I can't imagine an apartment without a home library, our family has always had a cult of the book. When I was 11 years old, I read Bulat Zhandarbekov's book "Saki" and then Maurice Druon and became interested in history. There was no Internet then and I had to buy books to learn even more about the subject of interest.

How much money do you spend on books per month?

About 300 dollars

- The most dear to the heart of the book?

The first edition in Russian of the book "The Neverending Story", "The Silmarillion", and several monographs about the monarchs, which I managed to buy in Moscow and San Diego.

- What do you think about e-books?

I have two e-books, but I hardly touch them. They are handy for travel.

"Then why are there two?"

Because when I was in San Diego, I borrowed a book reader from your editor-in-chief, Madina Iskakova, and dropped a glass on it. This caused the screen to crack. So the book reader passed to me, and then I fixed it

Igor Ramenskoy, owner of second-hand bookshop

Igor Ramensky has two rooms for books, these are real libraries - books in rows and a comfortable chair. In total, he has about 5,000 titles of literature.

The library began to collect from early childhood. He began to engage in second-hand books about 12 years ago. I am interested in history, classics, poetry. I try to collect books from the 50s and 60s.

Are people reading now?

Those who read before, they are reading now. There are all sorts of interesting things like tablets, it is convenient for someone, but not for someone.

- You tried?

No, I have enough books without this

- How much time do you devote to reading?

I have a job in a bookstore where I can read. But to read something difficult there it is impossible. Lighter is a must. Well, at home, every day to read an hour or two - this is certainly, but this should already be serious literature.

- Do you often bring old books?

Often. For example, they brought the "History of the Polish State" in two volumes in 1830, it turns out that it was published during Pushkin's lifetime.

- How much is such literature valued?

She is valued and not. Tragic cases happen, they leave, roughly speaking, in the trash. Libraries are now collected even by young people. I think that 30 percent of young people still read.

What books do you get asked the most?

Some of the classics, some of history. Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pushkin, Abai. More classical. It may seem to someone that we earn more on light literature, but no.

- Do you go to ordinary bookstores?

Hardly ever. Home-work-home. I don't have time to read what is here. About 30 years ago, I could read all night, until the morning, and then go quietly to work. Now - from strength to 12 at night, and sleep takes me away.

Anuar Raibaev, director and teacher

It all started in childhood, thanks to a big pull I got the books "Mowgli" and "Carlson" with good drawings. So I fell in love with literature. And he began to collect this library since 1998, when he studied at VGIK. I have a good example: my father has an extensive library and I decided to create my own. He told me: “Why are you buying this book, take it from me,” but I still bought it, it had to be mine.

How much money do you spend on books per month?

Differently. But in general, I like to go to bookstores without money, so as not to spend it. So when I get paid, I try to drive home so as not to get into the bookstore. I keep buying and can't stop. In order to read the books that I have, a lifetime may not be enough, I understand this. I have read about a quarter of my library.

I can boast that I have not seen books on theater directing in Almaty. For example, the edition according to Meyerhold. Bought the third volume this year. In the future it will be an eight-volume edition.

- Was it tempting to switch to e-books?

No, because I'm a teapot. I still write by hand.

One day I was moving and had to hire a truck for the books. As you can see, I have a mess at home, but I don't have it in my books. I always know what is where.

Antonina Kukaeva, journalist

They began to collect a home library even before I was born - at first there were grandma's and grandpa's classics, then a huge collection of my father's science fiction, fantasy books, and detective stories were added to them. Now I am slowly replenishing: I usually buy historical books, classics, well, "Harry Potter" - where would I be without it. I once tried to compile a catalog, but I'm not a good librarian.

Two years ago I was given an e-book - it's an ingenious invention for traveling. I read pretty fast, sometimes I can read 2-3 books at the same time, so an e-book reader is indispensable when traveling. But at home I don't really use it. At home, I need to rustle the leaves, creak the cover and be sure to sniff the book. I am a terrible book drug addict, I can read and smell every page, but this, of course, if it is tasty. Such books smell of fresh paper, a little glue - they have such a subtle sweetish smell with notes of printing ink. This is what good new books and 10-year-old books smell like. There are bad new books - they only smell of paint. Well, the old ones smell like dust, I don’t smell them either. Unless I stick my nose out of habit. In general, I would not mind if they released perfumes with the smell of a delicious book, I would use them

There are problems with storing books. For example, the complete works of Chekhov and Kuprin did not fit on the shelves and are stored on the mezzanine. And not only them, there are still many treasures gathering dust. I want to "relocate" the books to the hall and order a large wall-to-ceiling rack for them, then the storage problem will be partially solved. I love it when you come into the house and immediately books. I can look at them for hours, read the roots ...

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