I love to read physical books and I read a lot. Hotel rooms have big screen TVs for which I do not have any use, but no libraries in the rooms. To make my stays from home more, well, homey, I built this travelling library. At ?x?x? it is sufficiently small to count as a personal item for airplane travel, yet, it holds sufficient printed reading materials to last for several weeks. Originally, I was going to build a Jefferson writing desk, but, I really do not have a use for it. The travel book case seemed to be the next best thing.I built the entire box and then sawed it in half on my bandsae. The case is made from Mahogany, finished with four coats of Waterlox Original Sealer/Finish and the inside is lined with dark green felt. I added rubber elastic in the center to keep the books from falling out. The case has a neat, three-sided key for the locking mechanism and I attached the hinges to the flat side, with bolts through the side walls. The hinges are antique, victorian cast steel; I modified them a little bit by cutting off the ornate hinge housing and making new hinge pins.