What Can You Learn About a Person From Their Bookshelves? A Look at the Bookshelves of an Austin Airbnb

 I stayed at an Airbnb cabin during the library conference. This is the third Airbnb I've stayed in this year. 

All three places advertised themselves as having books. The first place had three books. The second place had one book. 

Nope. Sorry. Three books or one book---no one would consider an Airbnb that has three books or a single book as offering books.

Austin Airbnb bookshelves

But the third place I stayed, the cabin in Austin, had books. A lot of books. 

Well done, Austin Airbnb.

As I browsed the shelves, I started wondering about the people who owned the Airbnb, the people who originally put the books on the shelves.

What can you learn about people from their bookshelves?

I quickly noticed there were a lot of books about the law. 

But what is Linda Goodman's Love Signs doing among all those law books?

I love good literature, but I was not a fan of the literature section.

Here and there I found books I have read 

including From Dawn to Decadence.

A few art books. 

I was tempted by The Rise and Fall of the American Left.

The fiction section? Not titles that appealed to me.

A lot of cookbooks.

I must say that I've never read a book about elocution.

So what sort of person owns these books? 

What can you tell about a person from their bookshelves?

Or were they bought in bulk at Half Price Books?!

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