How many books do you own?

[Gavin]

263 plus 20 or so e-books.

[Stephen]

In my attempts to turn my house into a small library, I have about 4000 paperback/hardback books. Around half of those are horror related novels and I definitely plan on reading all of them at some point :)

[Anne (w/ an E)]

I have 37 paper/DTB books, 6 of which I plan to keep and reread, the others I plan to read and recycle at the second-hand book store after I read them. I have 108 iBooks on my iPad, 489 on my Kindle and an unknown number in the cloud. So 634 total, not counting what is in the cloud. So glad ebooks were invented ! (Thanks Dad for giving me my first Kindle!)

[WendyB]

ooooh... so many people with soooo many books. I feel like I could have all kinds of new best friends here! :)

[Kelly B]

Around 1,000, give or take. Out of that number, there's probably 400 or so I haven't read yet.

[Adamus (Like Adonis, but with a M)]

I have 1843 exactly lol I know sad but I always write down all my books I have in a notebook so I have been ok with counting I didn't think I was gonna buy that many, but when you find as many book stores & thrift shops & all these little stores that sell books for cheap prices

[Ahmed]

may be 50 books one of them is so famous it is the story of civilization

[Jim]

less than 30... i donated all my books to a Veterans Aid organization so they could help war vets... i rarely buy books now, i just borrow them from libraries... i love books, but they just cost too much and i try to live with a small footprint on the environment when possible... i have a hard time understanding collecting of any sort (once a book is read, keeping it is just a form of collecting for me)... things weigh you down, and make it hard to move from place to place...

[Adamus (Like Adonis, but with a M)]

I have exactly 1843 books & I always wrote down every book I have bought so I can count them pretty easily lucky lol it's hard not to buy as many books when you find a bunch of good book stores & thrift shops & all these little places that sell books also & for cheap. Luckily my area has 5 book stores in it & there are a lot of stores that sell books you can spend half the day if you had the time looking for books lol but I'm sure a lot of people know what I'm talking about

[Ahmed]

James wrote: "less than 30... i donated all my books to a Veterans Aid organization so they could help war vets... i rarely buy books now, i just borrow them from libraries... i love books, but they just cost to..."
i donated half my books so they were 100 app

[Ahmed]

books are so expensive and i forget all i read after minutes!!! regrettably

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Right now I own 2,651 physical books. I don't tally ebooks owned really.

[Max]

I never keep track. I only keep books I really love and just trade others in. Why not share the knowledge and get some more in return?

[sonya]

I think 200

[Matt]

21.

[R.S.]

12 Of the Medium U-Haul Boxes full. (We moved recently!) That was after I cleaned them out! I have such a hard time getting rid of any because I re-read them all the time.

R.S. Merritt

[Figgy]

4,095-ish physical books. Like Erin in comment 113, I don't tally ebooks owned.

I am running out of places for more shelving...

[Jen from Quebec :0)]

Adamus wrote: "I have exactly 1843 books & I always wrote down every book I have bought so I can count them pretty easily lucky lol it's hard not to buy as many books when you find a bunch of good book stores & t..."

WOW! 5 bookstores!? I am so jealous! Growing up in Quebec, we did not have any option to buy any books in English where I live....French only. So, I could only buy books whenever we traveled to another province, or to a larger area, like Montreal. I went to university in New Brunswick, though, and totally made up for this! I went nuts! Thus, the book collection began in earnest....I also worked at a Chapters bookstore for 2 years, racking up tons of buys with my 30% discount (including 30% off ON TOP OF SALES PRICES also!) and then when I became a teacher, I got a teacher discount from wholesalers, as well as $1500 a year to spend on books for the book club I started for our high school students. I won a Quebec literacy award from the province, and then got that $1500/year as a result-- the students were/are SO happy that each year (at school at least) they can help me pick the books that they want to read and get - in ENGLISH! I am not sure of the actual # at the moment.....at least 1,000 books, for sure! --Jen from Quebec :0)

[Jessie]

I have hundreds but I have not counted them. I want to eventually get them all logged on this site so I have a better count but most are sitting in storage. And lets face it, that would be a lot of work, but maybe one day.

[Corie]

I thought I had a lot until I read the comments 😂

[Ami]

Wow! It is very cool getting to see how many books everyone has. One day I would love to have lots of bookshelves all over my house!!

I just recently gathered up every book in the house in order to scan them on goodreads( I was curious about how many I had), organize them better or trade them for credit. According to Goodreads I have about 1,460 books. But I know that number is off a little bit, but not sure by how much...? Majority of them are physical. I think last time I checked how many ebooks I had it was something around 600ish? I’m not sure what my read total is...? Goodreads says 400, but I know that is wrong because I tried to just scan things as quick as possible and get them on goodreads, so to save time I just filed everything as TBR. One day I will go through there and clearly mark what has and has not been read so far.... I just haven’t gotten around to that yet >.>; and I probably have donated / trade for credit about 200-300 books, give or take. I still have several tote bags filled with more books to trade / donate. It is just a not very fun task because I hate carrying heavy bags of books ( unless they are coming home with me!) to the store and then wait for them to go through and check everything. I’m too lazy. :P

[R.S.]

Probably a couple of thousand. We moved and I've just got boxes of books filling up a storage room until we can make it into a library / office. I tired to get rid of a bunch and ended up getting rid of like 3 then I pulled one of those back out of the garbage... just in case I wanted to re-read it!

[Hectaizani]

I have about 1345 on my owned and to be read list. That's a mix of ebooks and dead tree. I'd say that about 1000 are on my Kindle and I physically own 350 or so physical copies.

Those are all the unread ones I don't usually keep books after I read them. Mostly I sell them back to a used bookstore, leave them out places for other people to pick up (bookcrossing.com) or delete them off my Kindle. And yet I still manage to have over 1000 books that I haven't read yet. ROFL!

[Kasia]

Too many and not enough.

[Laura]

Only around 150-200. Around 50 of those are unread. I recently moved to a smaller house and got rid of at least 50% of my books though. I absolutely hate giving away books, I find it so hard to part with them. On the other hand, I get really stressed if I have too many in the house that are unread - as though I may never get round to reading them. Yet I can't stop buying more and more!

An ideal amount to own unread for me would be around 10. And maybe 50 favourites that I'll keep forever. I think I'm a reluctant bibliophile! 😉

[[deleted user]]

more then i can count

[Red]

If I had to make a rough estimate, I'd say... two hundred or so paperbacks. Not a lot of horror in there, as I was more into urban fantasy / paranormal romance, and I've only gotten into horror recently.

[Jay]

Approximately 500, roughly 1/3 unread.

[Ami]

11811 (Eleven) wrote:
A book/kindle is like a security blanket for me. I don't leave home without one even if I'm too busy to actually read it. As long as it's there, I'm calm and cool. For the most part anyway. It's a great way to ignore everyone around you without being rude. "

I am the same way! I do not leave the home without a kindle or book in my purse or pocket. I can't stand being somewhere (like a waiting room or out somewhere waiting on people to arrive, etc.) and having "down time". Sure, I could be just another one of the millions of people around the world with their face glued to their phone.... the smart phone is amazing, don't get me wrong... but it's just not as good as having a book to read. I am very NOT good in social situations and I would much rather sit somewhere and read my book then have to deal with awkwardly talking to people. D:

The other day I was reading my book in a coffee shop and this guy started talking to me about my tattoos (I have bright pop culture tattoos). And he was super friendly, very nice, it was nice that he recognized the show they were from, but............................ I just wanted to read my book and have a coffee. -.-;; That kinda makes me sound bad.....but, like, I am so bad at talking to people face to face. I never know what to say and I just have this awkward, scary smile on my face like i don't know what smiles are for, and then I say something that may or may not be coherent and I just sound like the kid, who when asked by the news reporter what he thought of the carnival, he slowly replies that he likes turtles. It is just..... BAD. -.-;

[Canavan]

At one time I had around 7K physical books, but a series of moves in recent years has drastically reduced that number. At the moment I have about 1.5K print books in our house and a similar number in storage. (The books in storage are for the most part older and fragile paperbacks). Most of my acquisitions these days are electronic.

[Justin]

If we're counting ebooks as well then well over 100 If not I'd say under 150.

[Alan]

Probably between 1000-1200 physical books and another 100 e-books.

[Tyler]

A little over 1,900. I have all the books I own in a goodreads shelf. Over 1,600 of them are Ebooks though and probably 98-99% of those were free Ebooks, blame Bookbub, Instafreebie, people on here...lol And that's with having passed on over 1,600 free Ebooks (eventually I realized I had to start passing on some and have them in their own shelf so I don't go getting them later).

I might have a problem....

I am not seeking help for said problem :p lol

[Alondra]

After attempting to track books over the past 2 years (been on GR since 2011, go figure); I count 1180+ in physical books and 293 on Kindle.

I have read most; but have quite a few that are still on the TBR.... :O

[Hectaizani]

Stephanie wrote: "I am not seeking help for said problem :p lol ."

The story of my life!

[Jessie]

Once a year at our local library, they would have a book sale. Paperbacks for .25 cents and Hardbacks for $1.00. They had old records and magazines too. I would bring a trash bag and just fill up with paperbacks. This was back in the early 90's. I still have those books and with the other's I have accumulated, I would say around 4 or 5 hundred books. I have 155 on Kindle. I have lots of reading to do. Not sure I will ever make it to the thousands like some of you though. But maybe......

[Sam]

I use to have almost 200 but I moved late last year and I was going through a year long reading slump, so I purged alot of my books. I have about 95 books now. I got rid of the books that i had no intrest in reading any more. I only kept the books i truely wanted to read. 60 of them are my Stephen King, Jihn Grisham and Dean Kootnz collection. So minus them I dont have a whole lot of books left.

[Erin]

Sam wrote: "I use to have almost 200 but I moved late last year and I was going through a year long reading slump, so I purged alot of my books. I have about 95 books now. I got rid of the books that i had no ..."

I recently did a purge of my books as well and only kept certain collections, including all of my King books. By the time I was done I had around eight trash bags full of books which I donated to my town library.

[[deleted user]]

Erin wrote: "By the time I was done I had around eight trash bags full of books which I donated to my town library. "

You did the right thing by donating them. Some people actually burn them...

[sonya]

I have 200 and donate what I read already

[Erin]

Ekel wrote: "Erin wrote: "By the time I was done I had around eight trash bags full of books which I donated to my town library. "

You did the right thing by donating them. Some people actually burn them..."

Even in 2018 they still do that? I couldn't imagine. If I couldn't donate them I would at least try to sell them, like on Amazon.

[Marie]

In December 2016 when I posted on here I only owned around 650 books between kindle and physical. Now I own 1,158 on kindle alone and about another 25 more physical books. I think at the time I had around 400 books on kindle, so I have gained 758 in a little over a year. It would be more probably if I read every genre what with the free books floating around out there for the kindle, but I am kind of picky of what I like to read and pick up, so that is pretty good for me, I guess. lol :)

[Dez]

At last count I had over 1800 physical books. I think I'm due for a recount, especially since I now have ebooks...

[Figgy]

Dez wrote: "At last count I had over 1800 physical books. I think I'm due for a recount, especially since I now have ebooks..."

As someone who's been where you are, I'd HIGHLY advise Library Thing. It lets you add about 200 books for free then asks for payment, but you can pay a lifetime fee (when I joined it was $25, I think it now allows you to choose how much).

I'm at 4.5k and counting, and I absolutely LOVE it, and you can add different tags and stuff so you could also add your ebooks and stuff.



As to my answer to the thread... I'm at 4,548 physical books, but I haven't added my ebooks to my catalogue... so more than that if you include all formats.

[E.]

Several years ago I packed up about 10 boxes of books and gave to a senior living center that had a library in it. At that time I had about 3,000. Not sure how many went out in the boxes. There are about 600 on my kindle, 50 or so in iBooks, and 800 audiobooks. It's crazy that the physical books take up 2 floor to ceiling/wall to wall shelves, but the other 1500 fit in my pocket.

[B]

Comic books I have about 100, in trade paperbacks they are mostly DC or image there is about 35 and my books collection not including my husbands is about 145 ish? I have recently donated a large number of book to charity. Audio collection is smaller I tend to use my local library but it is about 10 that have been purchased.I don’t use a kindle. But guess I am missing out tho!

[William]

I own somewhere between 350-400 actual books. (I don't do e-books.) I try to sell or donate one book for every two I purchase, so my collection is slowly growing.

[Figgy]

William wrote: "I own somewhere between 350-400 actual books. (I don't do e-books.) I try to sell or donate one book for every two I purchase, so my collection is slowly growing."

That's admirable! I wish I had that level of self-control. Though it'd be hard to try and keep up with that working for a review site. (At least... that's what I tell myself so I don't have to get rid of my books. :P)

[William]

Thanks, but the primary motivating factor here is simply a lack of space. If I had more space, I'd probably allow myself a larger collection. BTW, I hope you don't mind but I went and checked out your Goodreads profile, and I am very impressed with your book collection. Also, I'd like to read some of your reviews.

[Figgy]

William wrote: "Thanks, but the primary motivating factor here is simply a lack of space. If I had more space, I'd probably allow myself a larger collection. BTW, I hope you don't mind but I went and checked out your Goodreads profile, and I am very impressed with your book collection. Also, I'd like to read some of your reviews."

Haha, yeah, I get that battle, too. We've been gradually acquiring more shelves over the years, but are at a point now where we've pretty much run out of walls against which to put shelves... but the landlord also sold the house, and the new landlord wants to put the rent up, so we'll possibly be moving to an area a bit further out, with bigger houses that cost a little less. So... more shelf space! :D

No problems at all. It seems we have some common interests and books in common. Not sure if you're asking about sending a friend request, but if you are, I'd be happy to stay in touch. :)