Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Book stack


I always wondered how many books I gathered during law school, so a few weeks ago I stacked them all up on the table to see how high it went. It was a pretty big stack, and I couldn't even find several of my books. It would have been almost a foot taller if I had all of the books in the stack.

I didn't include my bar preparation materials, which would have added 36 more pounds and about two more feet to the stack. In fact, the weight of the book stack was worrying me when I took the picture, since I had the book stack on our hand-me-down kitchen table.

I did want to provide some sense of scale for the book stack, so I put Lindsay up on the table to for reference. I don't know why I thought Lindsay would be a good standard unit of measurement, but at least she thought it was funny.

Posted by For Peter's Sake at 4:15 PM

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4 comments:

  1. Those books look so boring! :) Now stack all the notes you've taken on top of that. Would it fit in your house?
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  2. That's a good question! I'm not sure. I took a couple thousand pages of notes during law school, but I never printed them all out--they're just in my laptop.
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  3. These pictures make me think of doing book processing at the library and stacking the books as high as we possibly could without them falling over. It takes some skill to make those stacks really tall.
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  4. I know! I had to be really careful when I stacked it up, and I had to adjust it twice.
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