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Five bankers boxes' full. However many that is.
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Around 1000 books (not sure how many of these are paperbacks and how many are hardcover books) at home, plus what I have on my Kindle app...way too many.
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Good question, I have never counted. I think they are about 500...mostly ebooks
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Post by yoana »

I have around 200 books. And growing everyday.
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I have a decent amount. I had to give some away recently because I didn't have enough space. :(
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I'd have thousands now but, over a decade ago, I donated all of my books to the library and spent 7 years growing my audiobook collection. Now that I've decided that I much prefer real books, I'm building my library back up. I have about 250 books but I want to get who of my audiobooks in either paperback or hardcover. Written me luck! LOL
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Sorry but I really can not count
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Post by hey_juils »

About 200... I had double that, but realized that my future constant travelling would not allow that, so I've begun slimming it down to just my favourites. It's getting harder and harder, though.
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At the moment I have 336 books. I've been keeping them in a log like you're starting to do. :)
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Precisely i have 278 books. Some are very old belonged to my grandpa.
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I don't own any book. I just visit libraries and borrow books. I usually rent romance pocket books.
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I used to write them down in a notebook too. Now I use Goodreads. I love that site. It has bookshelves, kind of like OBC. You can track your read books, books you own, favorites, your to be read list, and other things. I'm not sure how many books I actually own. Hundreds, probably. I have two bookshelves in my house, and all my books don't fit on them!
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Steph K wrote: 30 Nov 2017, 09:33 I used to write them down in a notebook too. Now I use Goodreads. I love that site. It has bookshelves, kind of like OBC. You can track your read books, books you own, favorites, your to be read list, and other things. I'm not sure how many books I actually own. Hundreds, probably. I have two bookshelves in my house, and all my books don't fit on them!
Wow! You're the bookworm!

Did you read them all or did you just let worms crawl on them? 🤤 geeez... ✌

Kidding aside, which genre do you like?
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Dolor wrote: 30 Nov 2017, 09:54
Steph K wrote: 30 Nov 2017, 09:33 I used to write them down in a notebook too. Now I use Goodreads. I love that site. It has bookshelves, kind of like OBC. You can track your read books, books you own, favorites, your to be read list, and other things. I'm not sure how many books I actually own. Hundreds, probably. I have two bookshelves in my house, and all my books don't fit on them!
Wow! You're the bookworm!

Did you read them all or did you just let worms crawl on them? 🤤 geeez... ✌

Kidding aside, which genre do you like?
Science Fiction and Fantasy, mostly.
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Steph K wrote: 30 Nov 2017, 10:34
Dolor wrote: 30 Nov 2017, 09:54
Steph K wrote: 30 Nov 2017, 09:33 I used to write them down in a notebook too. Now I use Goodreads. I love that site. It has bookshelves, kind of like OBC. You can track your read books, books you own, favorites, your to be read list, and other things. I'm not sure how many books I actually own. Hundreds, probably. I have two bookshelves in my house, and all my books don't fit on them!
Wow! You're the bookworm!

Did you read them all or did you just let worms crawl on them? 🤤 geeez... ✌

Kidding aside, which genre do you like?
Science Fiction and Fantasy, mostly.
Are all your books at home in those specific genres only?
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