How many books do yall own, and how many have you actually read. (Out of the books you own)

[awesome_sause_joce]

Lmao, I have 120 books and I have only read 15 of them. XD

[Malissa]

I own a lot of ebooks and audiobooks and a few hard copies. Hard copies are reserved for my favorites, DIY, crafting, and herbal witchy books. I have read almost a 1000 books.

[Ashley]

I have at least 200 books in my possession. Out of those, I’ve read (maybe) 175.

[Claudio]

own 15 books read 14, but I mostly borrow the books I read or just look for them online.

[Marion]

I own hundreds of paper books (I've read all of them) thousands of e-books and there's at least 75 I haven't read.

[Christine]

I'm collecting books since 1965. I've read more than 5.000 books.

Before I immigrated to the US, I owned more than 3.000 books. However, I had to limit the amount of move boxes to 127 boxes when I immigrated in 2002. Many of the move boxes contained my 700+ VHS tapes which I transferred in the US onto DVD's.
So I only kept 1.500 hardcover books and did bring those with me to Maine where I lived in the beginning.

Over the years I've read a lot of those 1.500 books and sorted the ones out that I definitely won't reread again.
Now I purchase on an average 45 books per year, because more and more of my favorite authors are either dying or unfortunately changed their topics/writing style to appeal to a 20+ year old audience, so I stopped buying their books.

My husband owns 100+ books, but reads Kindle most of the time.
We have 24 large DVD and book cases all over our house.

[Steve]

964 Books on Kindle at the moment. Read maybe 100 ish but working through them slowly.

[Maggie]

I have enough to own my own library. I've read at least over 200.

[Vanessa]

Christine wrote: "I'm collecting books since 1965. I've read more than 5.000 books.

Before I immigrated to the US, I owned more than 3.000 books. However, I had to limit the amount of move boxes to 127 boxes when I..."

Wow, Christine, you impress me by describing your collection. And to move 127 book boxes--whew!

Jocelynn, I'm afraid to count. My husband and I merged our book collection when we married sixteen years ago and we've added hundred of books since then. I'd say we have somewhere between 1,000-1,500. Of those read--we'll let's just say it is a small percentage.

[Christine]

Vanessa (Newville PA) wrote: "Christine wrote: "I'm collecting books since 1965. I've read more than 5.000 books.

Before I immigrated to the US, I owned more than 3.000 books. However, I had to limit the amount of move boxes t..."


Vanessa, at the time when I decided to move to the US, I also received a small insurance payment from my former employer which covered the costs that the shipping of these move boxes caused. I was lucky. It was good timing!

[Susete]

166 I have read around 22,

[Julia]

180 i have read 100

[Christine]

I've read more than 1.000 of my 1.500+ books.
There are dozens of movie books that I still need to read...one life is too short to read all interesting books.

[ʚ manvi°•✮•°]

i have 18 books - hard copies, out of which i've read 10.

[Barbara]

I have several thousand books of which I've probably read two hundred; many others I gave away after I finished them

[Alecsandra]

I own about 1800 books, I don't know how many books I've read in my lifetime, but out off the ones I own I've read 1000, almost.

[maja]

i own 269 books and I haven't read maybe 60 of them

[Brian]

There are about two hundred books in my private collection that will eventually get handed down to my children. I've read them all, some twice. 99% of the books bought get handed off to my kids or coworkers. I have neither the room nor the desire to collect books beyond what is already on the shelve now.

[Elaine]

I have 100 so far. just getting started and I've read 98 of them :)

[Christine]

For me books are the prettiest wallpaper. :)

[Stella]

140-ish. I’ve read like 70

[Rebecca]

Is the point of owning books to read them? Lol. I have so many books that my bookshelves are exploding. Plus the ones on my Kindle, obviously. Have I read them all? What a question!

[Kylin]

If we are including ebooks I have like 200-220ish and I’ve read like 180-200

[Eilidh]

I have 556 physical books and I currently have 200 on my physical TBR. This isn’t even including ebooks I own 🫣

[Tasha]

326 physical books and have read 122

[Kristi]

I own about 400 and have read 150 of them. If I count my ebooks it's more like 700

[Shaye]

I prolly own about 150 and have read half 😅😅

[ᴍᴀ́ʀᴄɪᴀ]

I own atleast 100 from probably read about 30 from that pile.
But I read more from library or ebooks...

[• honeztly.quiescentt •]

I own 115 books, and have read 90 of them

[awesome_sause_joce]

Miss Rodrigues, same I read so many books from the library lolololol

[Bruna]

In my leisure bookshelf: I own 69 books and I have read 28. I won't buy any more untill all of those are read.

In my work bookshelf: I own 153 books, and I am positive I have read about 5 from the first page to the last one. Those books are majorly for consultation.

[Gypsy]

I own over 1200 titles, but physical books I think I'm currently down to about 750ish and I've read maybe 300 of my physical books give or take.

[T.]

I own 206 physical books and read 148 of them at least once. My kid has a collection of books and I've read many of those as well but I haven't kept track of those as much.

[Laura]

I have 34 and read 29

[Annalena]

I own about 80 physical books and 44 of those are unread

[Debby]

I own too many physical books, at least several hundred. It seems multiple rooms have bookshelves….
Then I have several ebook apps, like Kindle- has about 1500 books. The others only a few hundred.
I read about 300 books a year. Most of the books I have physically, I have read. I usually get rid of the ebooks I have read, unless they were fabulous. Like the one I just finished, The Surrogate by Penelope Ward, or any of Nick Petrie’s books.
I only know the number of books I have documented in Goodreads, which is over 1700. But I didn’t join until maybe 2018-2019. So, I have read thousands of books. Started reading back when I was very young and have continued my whole life.
Mostly mystery, historical fiction, thrillers, literary, and romance! I am a book addict. Love reading.

[Annie]

i own probably around 180-190 and have read around 120 of them

[Sam]

i own 332 books, I've not read 82 of them yet.

[Ineffable7980x]

I don't honestly know how many books I own, but I estimate there are roughly 150-200 that I have not yet read. It's my project for the next few years to read them. At least 40 or so a year.

[23eneufeld]

own 19
read 14
I make myself read all the books I currently own before purchasing more physical book

[Amanda 📚🍂☕️]

I own 198 books and I’ve read 114

[Vítor]

Iown about 600 books, of which I have throughly read (asides partially consulted here and there when I felt like it) almost 200... so far! (Good to be optimistic.)

[Ineffable7980x]

I have not counted, but I estimate about 1000. I only keep books that I absolutely love, ones that I plan to read again, and ones I have not yet read. Of the latter category--ones I have not read-- there are quite a few. Optimistically it's about 200, but realistically it's probably closer to 300. I am currently in the middle of a project to read down the backlog. It will take me at least another 3 years, but I will do it.

[Kanomi Okina]

I’ve lost count. I have a 12 cubicle filled to the brim of books. I believe I’ve read all but one

[Jill]

I have about 400 books, and I really, don't want to comment on how many books I've read.

[[deleted user]]

I would say around 800 and I didn't even get halfway through.

[Gypsy]

I own give or take between 700 - 800 books and I've read 487 but I'd say that is a rough estimate. I've honestly been trying to get an accurate count but once I pasted 500 books I kind of keep losing track. If I count my ebooks and audible's I probably own close to 1300 books all together. There are so many apps that track books but I've yet to find one that is easy to load and track of all my formats. If anyone has a good recommendation please let me know.

[Helena]

I don't really have a lot of space (plus other reasons) so for the most part I try to keep books in circulation, with only selected few favorites permanently on my shelves. Harry Potter books, couple of Mark Lawrence series, Perry Mason stories and some other bits, about 60 books total.

However, to beat the reading slump I've been in, I've accumulated quite the large physical TBR pile to select from - this year so far I've added 77 books to my collection and read 35 out of them.
I'm planning to keep everything around until new years to have a visual overview but once the year's up, I will be passing on at least half of these.

[Christine]

I used to have more than 3.000 until March 2002, then sold half of them and immigrated with 1.500+ books to the US. - Today I might have close to 1.600 books (I constantly sort out books which were disappointing plus I still order about 45 books per year via amazon.de and amazon.com).

[Christine]

I've never experienced a reading slump. I re-read my favorite books if no interesting new books are published like last year and this year. As I read at the most 150 books per year, it takes me 10 years, before I re-read the same book.