Booknutt Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Eight less than I did - had to make some shelf space ... for the ten I'm awaiting delivery of, for "keepers" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookaholic65 Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I can't say exactly how many books I own, but a very rough guess would put it at around a few hundred perhaps, and that may not include the e-books! I am a self-confessed book-a-holic!!! Much to my changrin! But I think it would safe to say that I am not the only one! Maybe someday I will maybe "actually" count them!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wipples Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I tried counting them ,once, and sorting them,then I got lost again. Over 500 for sure though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86WM Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 About 15 to 20. I pass them on once I'm finished or swap them. Also going through a library phase at the minute. The last few years I've been leading a nomadic life which doesn't help. I'm probably around 300 books read in total (books I chose to read on my own initiative). One day I'll make a collection of only my favourites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakura Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 I used to own a lot of books. I had a manga collection of 3000, as well as about at least 1000 of regular books. But when I moved out of my mothers flat I sold or gave away most of it, since I didn't have the room anymore. Then my boyfriend moved in with me, and I gave away a lot more of my books since we have a lot of doubles, and he needed some room for his books too. Right now I guess I have about 200 books again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderTheDome40 Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 (edited) I have 74 real novels that i actually care about and bought since i started reading 7 years ago. Around the house, there are more of course but in my actual collection of real fiction-novel books that I read, i have 74 and still growing. All great ones that i take pride in having in my collection Edited September 1, 2013 by UnderTheDome40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 I was doing a lot of re-organising and shelving yesterday and I counted all the books I own, and I got up to 523, give or take ~10 (there may be miscalculation, books I've given away but are still listed as books owned, books I've bought but haven't remembered to list as owned). This was only 1 year and 5 months ago... I cannot have bought so many books after that. I blame all the members on here who send me books by mail! I've just counted my books and I now own 825 titles. When I joined the forum, I remember looking up to Kylie, in awe, when she was nearing 1,000 books owned. But I never dreamed (or wanted to!) own that many books myself, I thought it would be a nightmare to own that many books in a student apartment. Think of the backache when I have to relocate all these books some day! I counted my books today and I got 578. Not too bad, when you consider the post above ^ Luckily I managed to read and give some of them books away before this move Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 According to my LibraryThing account, I own 579 books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I'm a little over 2,000 physical books and about 400 ebooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 I own over 3000 paperbooks and over 400 ebooks (partly free and partly bought). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander the Great Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Over the past two weeks, I've had to put all my books in boxes, then unpack them again. In the process, I made a list and I arrived at about 350 books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I hated packing up my books when we moved, Alexander. I can't remember at the time how many we had, but we filled tea chests with them, then realised we couldn't lift them, so had to unpack them all again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I reckon I also have about 350, but I need to count them, (and re-organise them) again. When I moved in here 9 months ago (hellish experience, carrying all these books around), the books got thrown onto any old shelf as they arrived into the house. Haven't gotten around to sorting them yet. I want to colour co-ordinate them. Really should get around to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 According to LibraryThing I own somewhere in the region of 1700 books. ^ That was then (a pretty rough estimate, I think). This is now: according to my cataloguing software, I have 1882, but there's probably around 300 that haven't been catalogued yet. I intend to know the exact number soon! I now have around 2,500 according to my cataloguing software, but I still haven't catalogued a few hundred or so, so it would be around 3,000, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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