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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#196  Postby bobjc » 19 Feb 2012, 14:48

I have Only Few Books..
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#197  Postby Gannon » 19 Feb 2012, 17:02

I used to keep a database on all of my books, but the hard drive crashed and I did not have a backup. Since then I have stopped counting it would be somewhere between 500 and 1000.
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#198  Postby primrose777 » 19 Feb 2012, 22:23

I have just over 100, having started from scratch after losing most of them during a move a few years ago. I would like to think I am a beginner serious collector though I am only just starting to discover the treasure trove out there. Trouble is I buy quicker than I read, then I decide to read what I have before I buy again..... well good luck with that.
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#199  Postby Tralala » 20 Feb 2012, 02:25

primrose777 wrote:I have just over 100, having started from scratch after losing most of them during a move a few years ago. I would like to think I am a beginner serious collector though I am only just starting to discover the treasure trove out there. Trouble is I buy quicker than I read, then I decide to read what I have before I buy again..... well good luck with that.


:lol: I tried to do the same thing for years, then finally gave up. This habit will serve you well when you're snowed in...if you're in an area that ever gets snowed in, that is....doesn't sound like Australia gets much snow.
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#200  Postby primrose777 » 21 Feb 2012, 02:04

Tralala wrote:
primrose777 wrote:I have just over 100, having started from scratch after losing most of them during a move a few years ago. I would like to think I am a beginner serious collector though I am only just starting to discover the treasure trove out there. Trouble is I buy quicker than I read, then I decide to read what I have before I buy again..... well good luck with that.


:lol: I tried to do the same thing for years, then finally gave up. This habit will serve you well when you're snowed in...if you're in an area that ever gets snowed in, that is....doesn't sound like Australia gets much snow.



No we don't get any snow where I live, however we have had a few floods lately so the same principle applies :D
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#201  Postby Luffy » 21 Feb 2012, 10:08

I have a few 1000s ebooks. Do they count? :roll: sorry, :oops: . There.
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#202  Postby Tralala » 22 Feb 2012, 01:08

primrose777 wrote:
Tralala wrote:
primrose777 wrote:I have just over 100, having started from scratch after losing most of them during a move a few years ago. I would like to think I am a beginner serious collector though I am only just starting to discover the treasure trove out there. Trouble is I buy quicker than I read, then I decide to read what I have before I buy again..... well good luck with that.


:lol: I tried to do the same thing for years, then finally gave up. This habit will serve you well when you're snowed in...if you're in an area that ever gets snowed in, that is....doesn't sound like Australia gets much snow.



No we don't get any snow where I live, however we have had a few floods lately so the same principle applies :D


There ya go! Keep buying! I love it when I don't really know what I want to read next, so I just look through my bookcases..."Oh, yeah! I forgot I had that one! And that one! And that one!"....I can't resist a book sale. :)
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#203  Postby Trinity31 » 28 Feb 2012, 21:45

Since I've been collecting from the time I was five and I've never thrown out a book I should be well into the thousands. Unfortunately I had to start putting them in storage because i don't have enough room for them in my room.
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#204  Postby Connie_88 » 29 Feb 2012, 12:24

I've probably got close to 150 books. I've only got room for 1 book case in my pokey little flat so that's overflowing, and there's a stack of books that's climbing steadily up the wall next to it!
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#205  Postby shaphat » 08 Mar 2012, 02:34

I have about 200. I used to have more but years ago my mom got angry at me because they were messy (didn't have much space) and got rid of all of them including one of my collections of a particular editorial for young readers which I had almost completed! it broke my heart (I was 12 at the time) I haven't been able to find the young indiana jones books I had anywhere in my country. It's a grudge I'll carry to my grave T_T She also gave away my favorite plushie <.<
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#206  Postby Nanao Clams » 15 Mar 2012, 09:52

I own around 50 books in my room. My mom owns 10x more, no kidding.
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#207  Postby hello_kitty » 16 Mar 2012, 08:09

over a hundred. i love to read.
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#208  Postby tedfiz » 29 Mar 2012, 20:52

around 50... others.. i lent to my friend.... but it never come back....
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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#209  Postby frik » 01 Apr 2012, 10:44

More than 1000...too many to count.
A few hundred by Stephen King..

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Re: how many books do you own?

Post Number:#210  Postby goldengate » 08 Apr 2012, 13:13

I have more than a thousand also - I have never actually counted them. We just moved into a new home about a year ago and I bought 40+ feet of additional floor to ceiling bookcases and took all my books out of storage. Those shelves are now full. I guess my next step is to go through and pull books that are not "keepers". I really hate to part with a book, however.
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