Which Room in Your Home Contains the Most Reading Material?

[Loveabull]

I just had to think about that a bit myself. I think it would be the dining room. Explanation is that I have three floor to ceiling bookshelves in there plus my desk that's always stacked with books, magazines, catalogs and clippings to read. Second place is the upstairs hall with kind of cobbled shelves of three different units stacked to create one big set of shelves. Third place would be the bedroom with stacks on most surfaces...dangerous when fat footed kitties walk the headboard at night

[gali]

The play room of my kids. We have a huge library there and we keep most books there. We have books in the rooms and hall as well.

[ErinLundJohnson]

Toss-up between the living room, with two large cases of 15 shelves combined, and the bedroom, with a case of 5 shelves, a bureau with a shelf full of books, 3 baskets full of them, and a stack on my bedside table... I'd have to count them to figure it out! LOL

[caelishbarham]

My bedroom for sure! I always have at least ten books in my bedroom at all time! I tend to start a book right before I go to bed (meaning I don't usually go to bed until the book is finished).

[ParadiseLost19]

For me, that would be the room I share with my sister. In addition to our own books, our parents also put their old books here. That's not even mentioning the serious book-buying addiction I have and the fact that the most common Christmas and Birthday presents in this household are books. The result is that small piles of books erupt from the ground because there isn't enough space on the shelves

[Jenniferpotucek]

I keep all of my books in my bedroom because I love reading in bed.

[Loveabull]

The result is that small piles of books erupt from the ground because there isn't enough space on the shelves

I knew it! I knew it! You have just proven me correct that book piles left overnight can reproduce on their own

[DATo]

My office which contains bookshelves containing about 3,000 books. Next would be the guest bathroom which contains one book - Franny & Zooey - which was placed there to serve as emergency toilet tissue.

[Doc Foster]

My office, with about 1000 books. The number has remained pretty constant since we moved into our house in 2005, when I made a deal with my wife: she'd say nothing about the disarray of the room as long as I didn't allow it to spread to the rest of the house. Not to mention my Kindle, with another 400 or so ebooks.

I filled up the shelves long ago, and now, when I need to make room for new books, I remove those I can best part with and give them to the library. The shelves stay full, in no apparent order. However, I have a database for them which tells me where to find them - it works very well, and I don't have to reorganize.

I don't mind losing (most) old favorites. First, I don't much care about books as objects* ; second, I rationalize by saying that as long as I always give away my least favorite books my library will keep on getting better, even if not bigger.

*Some books I can't part with. The set of Hemingway novels, in their original dull Scrivener paperback covers, which I bought fifty years ago; Isaac Asimov's The Martian Way and Other Stories, which I bought on Balboa Island one summer when I was fifteen, lost, and finally replaced; the hardcover guides to the Old and New Testaments which my wife loaned me in college; the Stargazer's Guide, which my mom and dad gave me for Christmas, along with a telescope, when I was ten...maybe a few others I'll remember when I've posted this.

[Rosytoes]

Hands down, my bedroom, it seems like every inch is covered in books. I have a huge bookshelf but it is not big enough and books are stacked everywhere. It is probably not safe.

[tracydinh96]

My bedroom has the majority of my books

[dudeandduchess]

My bedroom has 70% of all the books at home. I have a book shelf for them, but I've lost space for all the other books that I've resorted to using my closet as well as my brother's room to keep my books.

[Bella_0772]

Right now I am living in a studio apartment, so basically the whole apartment!

[Dream Catcher]

My Room.

[lbuckman]

I would have to say the bedroom or the playroom.