Go on then, how many books do you have?

[fogbat]

Poll grammar fail

Fewer than 100, btw. Not Less

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I must have lost a good 500 when my parents' house burned down a few years ago

Tragic loss. I don't know what I'd do without some of my books. Hope your parents were ok.

 

[blossie33]

I don't THINK I've got more than 250 now

I gave five huge (garden refuse type) bags full of books to a Charity shop when I moved a couple of years ago.

I find it difficult to resist buying them (mostly Charity shop or bargain bookshop) but I try to pass most of them on when I have read them nowadays.

 

[Callum91]

I have that many books.

 

[Greebo]

Not sure exactly - too many to waste time counting them, that's for sure.

 

[Mungy]

I reckon around 2000.

 

[Urbanblues]

About 500.

 

[RubyBlue]

less then 100 now - when I moved into my flat I stupidly gave away all my vinal and 90% of my books

 

[Nemo]

Don't know, probably 500+.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I have perhaps 10-20, I fucking HATE living in such a small flat

 

[cesare]

About 1200 probably more. They're everywhere

edit: I thought I had a lot more, I guess some of them take up more space than I realised. I just counted shelves and average number plus a few piles.

 

[Geri]

I reckon I have about 100.

 

[ringo]

About 1200 I would guess.

 

[El Jefe]

i've no idea but must be circa 2000 including Pie Face's

 

[JeniD]

At last count, I had around 3500 paperbacks and hardbacks. They're almost lkie furniture, although i've read them all.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Not a huge number, maybe a couple of hundred at most. I'm not a big hoarder of them, and they've tended to get given away or left behind when I've moved.

 

[Chairman Meow]

God knows, they're bloody everywhere though. My husband reckons they're breeding.

 

[SpookyFrank]

50 odd, if that. I've lost/given away hundreds of the buggers before now though, but then again a fair chunk of the books I've ever 'owned' have been either given to me or lent and never returned

Ah well, possessions are only really fun when they're constantly on the move. You take stuff for granted if you're certain you'll have it forever.

I'm fairly sure a large number of my books were burnt at one point. Deliberately. That really upsets me

 

[DotCommunist]

Yeah I'm pretty sure if the never-returned loans were counted I would be knee deep in books

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm fairly sure a large number of my books were burnt at one point. Deliberately. That really upsets me

I once left a Dennis Wheatly book at my brothers house- it had an evil satanic goat cover.

His housemate, a jeebus army freak burned it

In recompense I recieved a custom made cool jacket and two pairs of new jeans.

Fucking book-burning Nazis

 

[spring-peeper]

I chose the "less than a thousand" coz I really hope it is less that a thousand.

I made a library out of a spare room upstairs. It didn't hold them all, but most.

After a couple of years, I noticed one of our main structure beams had splintered. I moved the books downstairs to a smaller room, but now even more are in boxes.

Last week, my daughter came by to borrow the Dune series - I pointed her to the pile of boxes and smiled.

 

[grubby local]

Re: alphabetical.

Never tried this but i did try and theme them once. Then I discovered the easy art of book organising: colour. Takes hardly anytime, looks groovy and I have a visual memory so I always know which shelf to look on Amazing how many books come in orange.

1,000 or so i guess
gx

 

[GoneCoastal]

*is seriously in need of more bookshelves*
Ranges from historical fiction, sci-fi, thrillers of various genres, technical, biographies/autobiographies, hobbies .... all sorts really