LETRANTERÍAS

The most fitting letters for placing books along the central shelf are, no doubt, E, H, and A. H is excellent, but it has only one shelf. E is unsuitable because it holds few books; on the highest and lowest shelves, which are the widest, a few more fit, but some books are very near the floor and easily become dirty, those above collect some dust, besides to reach them one must be very tall or mount a chair; hardly two or three fit in A, always only when they are not very thick, though they are well protected from dust, but the triangular shape of the opening prevents putting tall books on the sides, where however two jars of marmalade, for example, fit perfectly. Z has the same unsuitability as E to which are added those from A because of the lack of perpendicularity of one of its sides, on the lowest shelf. Something similar to E happens with F, L, and T. The rest show impractical curve lines, such as B, D, P, R and G with the aggravation of little stability. C, J, O, Q and  S are no worth putting anything on because they are easily destabilized by the least jarring, and O particularly comes loose; under I one or two books hardly fit; under K, M, N, Ň, V, W, X and Y all have sharp angles, ideal for storing skeins of yarn but not books.

 Norberto Luis Romero. Cologne, February 2007