What do you reckon you spend per annum on books?

[DotCommunist]

Where to store books becomes an increasing challenge. The attic is getting alarmingly overfilled with boxes of books at the moment. I might have to undertake that painful winnowing of wheat from chaff. But I love the chaff as well as the wheat. The march to the charity shop with the box of books is painful. I want to run back after handover 'no, wait, that biography of Dahmer is MINE!'

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Where to store books becomes an increasing challenge. The attic is getting alarmingly overfilled with boxes of books at the moment. I might have to undertake that painful winnowing of wheat from chaff. But I love the chaff as well as the wheat. The march to the charity shop with the box of books is painful. I want to run back after handover 'no, wait, that biography of Dahmer is MINE!'

you've got to keep hold of the chaff, or at least some chaff.
i have a cupboard full of novels and reference books, most of them were given to me, a trunk full of novels including some i havent read. on top of that trunk is a pile of books that i must have nearby, cookery books, art books, poetry and a few of my favourite novels and the 'books in waiting' section. i really want shelves to put them on.
I couldnt possibly give them away

 

[dodgepot]

dunno, not much. about £50 max i reckon....

 

[Ceej]

Loads and loads.....went to the Reading Crime Writers festival 2 weeks ago and came back with 18 new paperbacks....bought five since from Amazon....maybe £60 a month? I've about 40 books unread at the moment so will have to curb my enthusiasm....I fear for my floors and shelving the wall I want to shelve is going to cost about a grand. I'm going to die in a book avalanche if I don't get one, though!

 

[soulman]

novels, history, politics, travel, the odd biog, plus some other stuff, love me books

I love books as well. But for some reason now I read in fits and starts. I can go for months without picking up a book then I head for the library and get four or five out at once. I used to spend a hell of a lot on books and had shelves full of them but then I decided to give them all away and tbh it doesn't bother me not having them. I've still got a few but they're mostly practical stuff. Guide books, walks, some computer books and for some reason tucked away in the middle of them a copy of the communist manifesto.

 

[soulman]

Answering the opening question I reckon I've bought three books this year and they roughly tot up to about 15 quid.

 

[Detroit City]

wait, i forgot i buy a few books as presents for others so i'd say $50-$70 per annum

 

[gentlegreen]

zero - I'm almost incapable of reading ink on paper these days - I absolutely cannot write with a pen.

 

[kained&able]

Depends if you count programming books and the like.

For my entertainment its probabley about £40 a year at most.
Teachy webby/computing type stuff probabley goes up to about £100-120.


dave

 

[N_igma]

I already have an extensive collection in my house, tend to buy a lot of second hand books from charity shops too. Probably about £100 a year altogether.

 

[phildwyer]

I get all my books for free. I keep them all too, never sell them. As a result my flat, storage space office and car are all piled high to the ceiling with books.

 

[Cheesypoof]

nothing, i have virtually no attention span, so cant concentrate on films/ books.

 

[FiFi]

I spend more than I can afford, but not nearly as much as I would like.

 

[yardbird]

Good question.
I'll freak myself out if I add it up.
So the answer is:
LOADS

 

[ScallyWag II]

I'd guess around about £200, maybe a bit more. I pass a lot of books onto my mum and she does the same to me, then they go to work where a few of us swop books, then eventually either to a charity shop or back home to sit in an ever increasing pile.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

About $100 a month, mostly second hand.

I've cut back recently. I had 32 computer paper boxes of books in the basement that I've been going through. I'm reading all the ones I haven't yet read. I've managed to sort out 4 boxes of books for charity.

 

[Thraex]

Good question.
I'll freak myself out if I add it up.
So the answer is:
LOADS

I'm a bit like this.....um about £400 - £500 p.a. Nah, thas kool. Am going to wander alond Charing X Road (or is it New CXR?) after work tonight to see if there are any 'friends' who'd like to come home with me...NOT homeless peeps/other randoms I may meet, I think of most of my books as friends.

 

[yardbird]

I'm a bit like this.....um about £400 - £500 p.a. Nah, thas kool. Am going to wander alond Charing X Road (or is it New CXR?) after work tonight to see if there are any 'friends' who'd like to come home with me...NOT homeless peeps/other randoms I may meet, I think of most of my books as friends.

I went to college right next to Foyles - that's what started the addiction

 

[Iam]

Quite a bit. Not as much as CDs, but quite a bit.

I bought new shelves and put them up over the August B/H, but they're full already.