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One time on Usenet, (Derek Lyons) said:
> The Cook > wrote:
>
> >We spent a couple of months looking at houses and I do no remember any
> >of them that had any quantity of bookcases.
>
> Hardly surprising. Bookcases have rarely been built into houses as
> they completely deny the use of that wall for other purposes. (I.E.
> this isn't a new thing, but goes back decades or centuries.) As a
> general rule of thumb, if you do find a house with a large amount of
> built in bookcases, it's a custom build or remodel.

Makes sense to me. I've got tons of books, but all of our bookcases
were purchased after we bought the house. I wouldn't want them to be
built in, as we move furniture at least every couple of years...

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