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I shall indeed be placing them on the top shelf, well... one on the top shelf, and the other halfway down) and pointed at the side walls to reflect the sound back in as I read on a forum that this was best... and it's OK to have rear ports as the books will soak it up.
Alternatively I understand that to get the best noise possible I need to buy special cables at only £500 p/m.
More seriously... there is nothing inherent in speakers on bookshelves that will detract from the sound so long as there's no rear ports, the tweeters are mostly ear level, they're spaced reasonably wide apart, and they're not fully packed in by the books.
The soundstaging may suffer a bit, but I don't have a single armchair in which I listen to music... I listen to music everywhere in the room, I listen to music when playing the PS5, or when reading. I even listen to music when the TV is on. I listen to music sometimes just to listen to music, relaxing stretched out on a sofa (oh no! changing the height of my ears!!). I'm listening to music right now as I'm working. I listen to music perhaps 8-10 hours of every day.
It's because I listen to music so much that I think of everything that I own that the thing I won't regret spending money on are nice speakers (and whatever sends music to them).
It's highly pragmatic though, I move around, I move from room to room (oh no! different unmatched speakers in different spaces!!), I shift furniture constantly, and there will be cats to knock things over as they jump on them. I just enjoy music constantly, always in love with music. In theory it all needs to be perfect, in practise it just needs to be good enough. I'll up the quality of the speakers to offset the positioning on shelves.
There is nothing for me that makes my heart sing or emotions come alive like music does.
So yeah... speakers on a bookshelf. It could be the end of the world, or it could just mean that my heart sings in new ways in another space in the house - I'm betting on the latter.