One of the problems with the books I write is that they involve a lot of previously published work. This tends to leave my desk piled high with books, which then get buried under further piles of not-books.
My daughter's chest of drawers (10€ from the recycle centre) finally died and was not worth fixing, so in three hours flat this morning I hacked it into a prototype “writer's slave”, which has a slope for putting the primary source on, and an angled shelf below it so that it is easy to see when seated which book is which. The idea was not to store as many books as possible, but to store those needed to hand.
The execution is crude beyond belief- a simple loose block of wood adjusts the slope angle, I didn't bother to recreate the moulding on the cut edges, but I don't want to invests serious time that I should be spending writing on a project that is still basically in the design stage. This was done in three hours with zero expense- everything added is offcuts from other jobs. The bar that keeps the book open is from a broken fighting staff.

 

 

If my books sell so well that I make pots of money and have lots of free time, I might redo this, incorporating any in-use design changes, perhaps in walnut, with some fancy inlays…