Gingerbreadman Posted June 7, 2011 Posted June 7, 2011 All of Darren Shans books= 25(not counting city of snake) The Spooks series(or The Last Aprrentice)= 9(counting 2 companion books) and getting 8th one for my bday(in a week) Percy Jackson= 5 Heroes of Oylimpus= 1 The Kane Chronicals= 1(Getting 2nd for bday) All the Skulduggery Pleasent = 6 or 7? Goosebumps= 22 And a lot of others(prob about 225-30) I'm only 13 I'm meant 25-30 Quote
MountainGirl Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 So of your book collections how many of those have you read vs. TBR? Quote
Raven Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 I counted about 2 years ago and it was at just over 2500 then, I know for a fact I've acquired over a thousand since then, so somewhere between 3500-3700. Conservatively. My goodness! The moment an obsession was born . . . Quote
Kylie Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 (edited) So now you've taken to trawling through old posts to find more ways to mock me? Maybe I did subconsciously start up a competition with Pontalba. That would explain why I now appear to be buying books at the same rate that Pontalba was. How many books do you own, Raven? And how many of them are unread? At least I'll never reach this amount. I'd give anything to go to Canada and sort out those 350,000 books. *drools* And no, Raven, I wouldn't even want to take (m)any home with me. Edited June 13, 2011 by Kylie Quote
Raven Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 How many books do you own, Raven? I have no idea (and I hope I never do!). I do know that I have only bought five or possibly six books this year though, and that I am currently reading book number five. Quote
Kylie Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 How about a ballpark figure? One hundred? One thousand? One hundred thousand? I see I'm going to have to visit you one day and take you book shopping. Five or six just isn't good enough, Raven. Quote
Raven Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Again, no idea, but hundreds, definitely. I've been buying books for about 25 years now, so they have mounted up over time, but I've never bothered to count or catalogue them. Quote
katie.r Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Hmm...interesting topic! I'm very jealous of some of your huge collections! I really have no idea how many I have. They're scattered throughout my parents house, my living room, bedroom and study. I'd guess at about 600ish. I really want to count them all now, perhaps a task for a rainy day! Quote
Chrissy Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 I plan on never counting them. I don't want to know as it would probably spook my mojo away, and I'd feel compelled to get rid of some. We have lots of reference books that take up a lot of space here, but I cannot see us culling any from them. My TBR shelves are managable, and as there is little space involved I won't include my Kindle books on any list! Quote
hungertattoo Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 1100-ish is an insane amount. I have about 80 :| I've only really started having a passion for reading over the last 3 years but still it's a meager amount compared to 1100. Quote
willoyd Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 1100-ish is an insane amount. I have about 80 :| I've only really started having a passion for reading over the last 3 years but still it's a meager amount compared to 1100. Personally, I'd have real problems cutting my books down to that number. I suppose it's all relative. But then, I've had been a bookworm for knocking on 50 years, so that's been a rather longer time to accumulate! Quote
Ben Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Well I'm not even eighteen yet and on a rough estimate I'd say around 270 actual books, Kindle excluding - which is over a hundred but it's too easy to rack up a lot of books on there quite quickly. I hope one day to own thousands of books and have a nice collection in a library that I am determined to own. Seen as though I don't have much room at the minute this is a fantasy hope for the future, but looking around at all my books I am quite proud of what I have so far. Quote
Kylie Posted June 20, 2011 Posted June 20, 2011 I'm reading a book at the moment called Buried in Books. I tell you, it's making me feel a whole lot better about my book (and specifically, my book-buying) addiction. I think when I bought my place I envisaged just having the one room (my library) full of books. Now that it's almost full, I'm suddenly realising the potential of the rest of my place. I can fit soooo many more books in! Quote
The Old Man of Storr Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 The trouble with me is that I cannot throw books away although I was forced to a couple of years ago ! My guess would be over a thousand , and several more in two sheds . Quote
fluffy1181 Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 I currently own 616 books with another 150 on my wants list Quote
vinay87 Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 A meagre 250-300 with over a hundred on my wishlist. I'm sure there's another thread like this somewhere. Quote
LittleW Posted August 21, 2011 Posted August 21, 2011 Somewhere between 100 and 150. Not that much, as I see here. Quote
Kylie Posted August 22, 2011 Posted August 22, 2011 Somewhere between 100 and 150. Not that much, as I see here. Not to worry. If you stick with us you'll soon catch up. Quote
VanessaL Posted August 22, 2011 Posted August 22, 2011 I own about 220 books, and still keep buying them Quote
Hyzenthlay Posted August 22, 2011 Posted August 22, 2011 I'm going to actually count. I'll count the ones I have at home and then post the final number once I'm back at uni and count my books there. Only fiction, or nonfiction too? Quote
frankie Posted August 22, 2011 Posted August 22, 2011 ^ Whichever way you want to count them, but I think most people would count both fiction as well as non-fiction I know I did. Quote
pickle Posted August 22, 2011 Posted August 22, 2011 I have lots I did a rough count on one book shelf and discovered nearly 300 books and thats in one place only....I have over 100 on my kindle alone now do they count ? Quote
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