how many books do you own?

[Paulie Tandoori]

didn't this get done recently?

 

[ViolentPanda]

didn't this get done recently?

Like DotCom's mum.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

heh!

 

[krtek a houby]

Woke up Sunday am, unable to sleep. Cleaned my razor, still felt the need to do something constructive, so re-arranged my bookshelves.

Felt much better & woke Mrs Babylondon to show off my handiwork.

Her enthusiasm was minimal, to say the least

 

[blossie33]

Not exactly sure how many I have but over 200 I think.

I gave five large bag fulls to a Charity shop when I moved two years ago but I still have loads, mostly still in bags as I have no bookshelves at the moment.
I don't often buy a new book unless it's a bargain or something I really, really want. I mostly buy in Charity shops.

I've always loved books - you can never have too many!

 

[Orang Utan]

this thread has made me think of umberto eco's anti-library and the importance of being surrounded by just as many un-read books as read books:
http://ruchir75.blogspot.com/2008/01/umberto-ecos-anti-library.html

 

[Roadkill]

My insurance company has just phoned up about my contents insurance renewal. I've been thinking for a while I ought to investigate getting my collection properly insured since some of them are valuable and the replacement value of the whole lot would be pretty large. So, perhaps foolishly, I've mentioned it to them and they want a 'ballpark figure' for their total value. If anything's going to make me get off my arse and start cataloguing them, this is probably it...

 

[el-ahrairah]

I'm guessing 501-1000. Might be a bit less as I clear out regularly. Hard to tell once you get beyond the point where you're just just piling them up everywhere and getting rid of them in order to make space for new ones and all that malarky.

 

[Red Horse]

throw them away and stop showing off Mr "oh look at me, i read books"