I guess I could call this a coffee table - it's where I sit when I'm drinking coffee.
It's also where I sit when I am reading books. On the table right now for my reading rotation is The Irregulars by Jennet Conant, Fire and Fury by Michael Wolf, Draft Number 4 by John McPhee, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen, and State of Fear by Michael Crichton. No coffee-table or Time-Life books among them. That was your invention - I haven't had a Time-Life Coffee Table book on my coffee table as long as I can remember - certainly as long as I have lived in this place.