Horror Aficionados discussion
How many books do you own?
More than I will ever read in this lifetime.
Haha! Sometimes I feel the same. I have so many on my TBR list but I always seem to find more that I need (want lol).
Ditto - there is literally no way I will ever read every book I own. Not even if there was a way to healthily not eat, or sleep, or do anything but read... Uh that sounds kinda terrible, but anyway the point is I can't read them all and I can't wait to get more! It's a sickness, I know. I don't want to be cured :)
I own about two hundred or so books right now. I keep donating books or trading them at used book stores for credit for more books. I live in a rather small place so space is definitely an issue. My dream is to have an entire room dedicated to books – my very own library. I even considered getting a storage room (laying down nice flooring, maybe even doing something cool with the walls) or renting an office just so that I can have my library XD
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I have around 1000 physical books, which about a third are signed/limited editions. I had another 1000 tbp's, but I gave them away and/or traded them in for credit at one of my local bookstores for trade. (Check out Evans collection in the Used Book Shop Score thread - makes me wish I never got rid of them, but I try and not think about it. My wife is glad.) Outside of the tpb's, if I buy a book I am holding onto it.Eventually, I would like to get a list of what I have because they are currently piled up and I have a tendency to pick up doubles on occasion.
I'm not for sure on the exact number, but I'm thinking it's somewhere between 1000 and 1500. Rough guess. I keep a good number of my books. The only ones I get rid of are ones that didn't impress me and that I don't think I'll want to re-read. Otherwise, they are mine. My own. My preciousssssss. Seriously, that's how I feel when I look at all of them xD
About 500 at last count a couple years ago. Probably closer to 600 now.
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That's one good looking number :)
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That's one good looking number :)"
I've been counting for the past half hour. ;)
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I love it! Thank you all for sharing! I turned the smallest room in my house into a library and already have plans for more bookcases in other rooms. My fiance jokes that my books are going to take over the house!I am not an ebook reader so mine are all physical books. I find that I can't given them up/trade them in/lend them out so I think my collection is going to keep on growing!
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That's one good looking number :)"
I've been counting for the past half hour. ;)"
I will be counting too, if I go to my mom's house after work tomorrow I will certainly roll up my sleeves, I have tons of good horror paperbacks there, all my Mccammons and Polish Mastertons, tons of mystery, my old room became a book sepulcher.
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The more the better, it's like being amongst your best friends, forest made of books or a bookshelf if you must :P is so wonderful, I grew up with walls covered with bookshelves, even now I find it beyond comforting.
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That's one good looking number :)"
I've been counting for the past half hour. ;)"
I will be coun..."
My home is the only one with books in it, in my family.
I keep a shelf for my mom's true crime books.
My sister has a bookshelf, but technically they are my books that she has kidnapped.
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I concur with my esteemed colleague.
The only peace I have in my life comes from being around books. I would fill every room in my house with bookcases.
I don't have an exact number off-hand, but it would certainly be several hundred physical books - although most of them are boxed up at my mom's place. I almost completely stopped buying books for around 15 years (during my marriage; my wife said books were clutter! Even on shelves!), so that's probably why I'm not currently sitting in a room comprised entirely of furniture made out of stacked paperbacks :)I'm kind of a used bookshop addict, and I always make a point of walking past the book shelves at the supermarket (damn their aggressive pricing strategies!); both habits contribute to a steady influx of books that I never even knew I wanted!
And this isn't even mentioning all the spur-of-the-moment eBook purchases that I make. I think I may have a problem...
I don't have an accurate count right now. The last time I started counting, I stopped at around 350 and still had one entire bookcase of paperbacks, two crates, and I think 4 shelves on another bookcase (and possibly a box out in our storage building, but I'm not sure). Plus I have my Kindle books, which, at last count, were just under 700. A rough estimate would be around 1,600 total. Some will never, ever be read (or at least not in their entirety), such as the assortment of books on aircrafts, WW1 and WW2, etc. that were my grandfathers, as well as other reference books and probably some Kindle freebies that don't live up to the description.
I almost never get rid of books unless they've been destroyed in some way, or I hated them. I tend to re-read or at least reference books over and over, plus I intend to pass some of them on to my child.
Jon Recluse wrote: "Kasia wrote: "Amanda wrote: "I love it! Thank you all for sharing! I turned the smallest room in my house into a library and already have plans for more bookcases in other rooms. My fiance jokes th..."I would agree with both of you! It feels so peaceful and I wouldn't live without all of them.
Wow, I have never kept count but I know I have a lot of books. I have donated books in the past and I mostly do that when I am running out of space.
I have about 200 physical books and about 300 digital books. That's one of the things I love about my Kindle, basically I carry a small library around with me!
on my hard drive for my kobo well over 1.000 books from different authors. in paperback sadly not as much as I don't have the room. I think I have like 70 or so paperbacks my external hard drive is that massive book study I can never have.
I haven't gotten an e-reader. I tried one when I worked in a bookstore and it just didn't do it for me. If I was limited on space though I think that would be the way to go.
Right now probably about 88 ebooks and 2,323 books. Yeah, I doubt I will ever conquer my to-be-read list.
Erin (Paperback Stash) wrote: "Right now probably about 88 ebooks and 2,323 books. Yeah, I doubt I will ever conquer my to-be-read list."Nice!
I don't re-read books and just sell them to used bookstores for store credit. I've owned as many as five or six at a time, but that's it.Of course my Kindle-for-pc is overflowing with stuff I've read and haven't deleted and a long tbr list of books. But my hard drive has more space than my living room!
1266 in my digital library so far , about a 150 read from them .
I'm going to guess it's in the neighborhood of 3,000, maybe 4,000. It's probably been a couple of decades or more since I counted them and I don't remember the number then. No clue the number I've read, but that must be at least in the 1,500 range, since I'd already read 200 by the end of High School. Those are the physical books. I probably have around the same in Ebooks since a friend gave me their library. A lot of them duplicated what I had in physical books. I like reading anything over 400 pages on the ereader because it fits in my pocket comfortably, but anything over 400 pages does not. It's just easier. Even so, if I have the physical book, I find myself marking my place in it at night, as I'm reading the ebook. I just have no sense of where I am in the ebook and that can slow me down. I guess I'm a goal oriented reader. The percentage is meaningless to me, particularly with a longer book. A good chunk of my hard cover books are autographed, either in person at a con or signed limited edition. I collected autographs for a while.
I have 548 (all hardbacks),the wife has 171 and our
son (who can't even read yet)
has 165 for a grand total of 884 books.
I'm just starting to read for entertainment, so for now I have only a few :(But I hope in a couple of years end up having a large library :)
No idea of the exact number (and too lazy at the moment to count them), but I have well over 300 cookbooks/booklets alone, then another couple hundred regular books and about a hundred or so ebooks/audio books.
I have 173 according to the books I've marked as "owned" on this site, but I have loads that I haven't added yet. I can't really count them because I have one 5ft x 3ft book shelf that holds only a fraction of what I own. I'd have to dig into the many cupboards, cabinets, nooks, and crannies where I've stashed my books in order to count them all. xD;I also have around 100 ebooks on my tablet. :)
I have over 4,000 DTB books and over 15,000 ebooks (a huge number of which were freebies that I added to my library but will never read. Clearly a sickness!
About three hundred off my nook and 400 on the nook
I think I might have to count my books now. Such a daunting task, though.
I have about 5000 physical books left. I donate/gave away about 3000. We ran out of room to store them. On kindle, I have about 6000. Some are duplicates of my physical books. Sadly enough, I have read all of them including the freebies downloads. Many were awful.
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When I started gradually getting rid of my physical books when I went digital 7 or 8 years ago. I donated some to the 'book locker' at work and some to the library for the used book sale. I kept only reference books, so I have a small 35-ish physical library.My ebook collection is enormous. Over 10,000. I pick up freebies and specials from all over. I've probably only read about 2,000. I wish I had started using GoodReads faithfully earlier, because I find myself frequently digging into a book only to find I've read it already.
I have approximately 500 books , mostly hardcover . And that is after recently donating about 300 to charity. I usually add one or two per week and try to keep up reading them. I find them comforting , it drives my wife crazy. lol
I share a rather large collection with my wife. I've listed some 2200 as read in Goodreads, and there are quite a number of books hidden away in the attic as well. My wife's collection is at least as numerous as mine. In my estimate we house about 6000 volumes in total.
This is SO me!
Kirsten wrote: "This is SO me!"
That is too cute! And that is also totally me. I have small stacks of books everywhere so i can always grab one and have something to read!!
Too many. Enough to where I really shouldn't be adding anymore to my already huge pile.
About 100, which is not many at all. I've donated some books, lost others, and ran out of space. The library is my best friend, but I miss buying books without having to think about where I will be able to store them. I'm rebuilding my own library little by little.
I have not counted - around 750 or so. I buy 10 for every one I read - and I read continually. One thing I regret: many years ago I had amassed many horror books (S. King to Horror Movies books, etc.) One day I "got religion", thought they were a bad influence and I threw them all away. I regret it to this day. Don't ever throw your books away. Like Roberto de Vicenzo "I so stupid" DonB
I saw an episode of "Hoarders" on tv where this couple had amassed about a million books - in their (quite large) houses. Needless to say, it was a health and safety hazard - and they were totally whacked.
Don wrote: "I saw an episode of "Hoarders" on tv where this couple had amassed about a million books - in their (quite large) houses. Needless to say, it was a health and safety hazard - and they were totally..."I've watched a few episodes of that show. I can only (horrifyingly) imagine the sight of those books.
I started keeping track and am at 995 and will be over 1,000 next week after a few I've ordered come.
Do you all keep track? Do you keep things permanently or always trade everything in for new ones?