How many books do you own? Also how many have you read?

[Gloriana]

Hundreds, but I don't have an official count. I have to make myself part with some soon because I have no room.

I love Goodwill and SA. I got "Little Children", "Love In The Time Of Cholera" and "Memoirs Of Geisha" for three bucks, paperbacks with pristine covers, and no pages missing or violated. It was fucking awesome.

 

[Sarcasticus]

Shit I wouldn't even begin to hazard a guess. Hundreds? Thousands? I currently have two ceiling to floor bookcases crammed two layers deep with books. And that's after taking all the ones I was done with to the used bookstore for credit, before a recent move.
And I've done that exercise many times.

 

[Fidelia]

Hundreds for sure. Bookcase and bookshelf in my bedroom, two bookshelves in the sitting room, a couple of filing cabinets with music related ones, a number of boxes in storage, and a whole wall of books in the basement. But I need all of them. My mum laughs because every time I go home for holidays I reread all of my favourites, even though they've been read dozens of times.

 

[Scott N Denver]

Hundreds here. But unlike Sky I DON"T have a list. I've probably read hundreds more. Most books I own I've read, I intend to read all of them. Many of them I've read multiple times. I've sectioned my books; martial arts gets its couple of shelves, taoism a shelf or two, some philosophy, math gets several shelves, MBTI gets a shelf, I think hinduism gets half a bookcase, and buddhism gets 3/4 of a bookcase. I know I have more than that around though.

 

[Scott N Denver]

Oh, I forgot, probably 2-4 shelves worth of nature photography/scenery books, a shelf of travel books

 

[Kingfisher]

yeah, i also have hundreds if not thousands. mostly in the living room, but i have bookshelves in my bathroom even.
i arrange my books in a pretty hardcore system, alphabitized and everything. it's not dewey decimal, it's just my own very strange sort of system. but i could find any book like that.

 

[01011010]

Thousands. I need a house like the one below, just for my books.


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[lowtech redneck]

How many I own personally? I don't know, I never counted them. My immediate family owns several thousand books, all of which I can borrow whenever I want. I love my family...

 

[briochick]

um, around 200. I've read about 2/3 of them. I've given away a lot of books too, though.

 

[Charmed Justice]

Thousands, and I buy at least one new one every week. Amazon and their damn book recommendations.