how many books do you own?

Crescere · Post by **Crescere** » 14 Aug 2011, 21:07

I have seven floor to ceiling bookcases filled. There has to be over 1,000 books in my library, and three full file boxes full of soft cover sc-fi books at my mom's house.

I need to have a garage sale at least for the doubles and earlier editions.

Inspiro Assistant · Post by **Inspiro Assistant** » 16 Aug 2011, 03:32

You should make it a public library

Crescere wrote:I have seven floor to ceiling bookcases filled. There has to be over 1,000 books in my library, and three full file boxes full of soft cover sc-fi books at my mom's house.

I need to have a garage sale at least for the doubles and earlier editions.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 16 Aug 2011, 08:50

My brother-in-law is doing that, hes building a big room onto his house and is going to loan books and vhs video tapes, mostly for school kids, the school dosent have the money for a library. The closest library is 100 miles away.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 16 Aug 2011, 08:55

Bighuey wrote:My brother-in-law is doing that, hes building a big room onto his house and is going to loan books and vhs video tapes, mostly for school kids, the school dosent have the money for a library. The closest library is 100 miles away.

Now there's a guy deserves a medal

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 16 Aug 2011, 09:21

Fran wrote:
Bighuey wrote:My brother-in-law is doing that, hes building a big room onto his house and is going to loan books and vhs video tapes, mostly for school kids, the school dosent have the money for a library. The closest library is 100 miles away.

Now there's a guy deserves a medal

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He does a lot for the school. He just gave them a bunch of desks and about 50 computers he got out of the dump in Utah. He got about 200 of them and went through them fixed some with parts from others and ended up with 50 good ones. He told me something I didnt know. Mexico and Brazil are the only countries in the world that has a computer for every school kid.

Lapss321 · Post by **Lapss321** » 16 Aug 2011, 21:51

Couldn't for sure exactly how many as I haven't counted them in years. All I know is I don't have a single room with books in them!

Robin jackson · Post by **Robin jackson** » 18 Aug 2011, 07:29

i never counted my books ...but they are too many my room is almost full

Dragonflytears · Post by **Dragonflytears** » 18 Aug 2011, 10:07

ahum, well, I've worked here at bookdepot/bookcloseouts for 14 years ~ the best place to shop for bargain books. With 2 kids and myself self-diagnosed as a book addict, I would have to say in the 1,000's

Now mind you some are in boxes that haven't been looked at yet, but yes I know I have A LOT!!

PatternWeaver · Post by **PatternWeaver** » 18 Aug 2011, 14:27

Right around 200.

Avid Reader · Post by **Avid Reader** » 01 Oct 2011, 13:26

Just over 3,000 and have read all of them at least once. not many get a second airing but I can't bear to part with them.

ferretbait · Post by **ferretbait** » 01 Oct 2011, 21:33

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of about 150 with about 30 being childrens books for my daughter. I don't like rereading things, it just doesn't have the same shock the 2nd time around. So my books get put in a box in the top of my closet.

kellydouglas · Post by **kellydouglas** » 13 Oct 2011, 23:40

My room is full of books.

Holden_Caulfield · Post by **Holden_Caulfield** » 14 Oct 2011, 14:50

It is my dream to own as many books as one can have in his lifetime, and fill my whole house - another dream - with stacks and stacks of books everywhere, arranged neatly, making my whole house more like a library than anything else. As for now, something a little over a hundred, which includes my book, my sister's book, the books I have taken from people and never got around to returning it... : )