I have way too damn many lol. probably at least 400
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I specifically try to keep the number of physical books I own to a minimum, mainly by borrowing and giving away/selling them. I also moved some two years ago, that’s alway a push to “diet” more.
This being said, I still have way too many books. I’d guesstimate some 120 leisure books (read some 80-90) and some 20 work books (read/studied all of them). Some 50 virtual ones, read all but two I’m currently reading.
High hundreds for sure, maybe about 1000. Some on bookcases, some in boxes, some stacked on the floor.
62, I just counted. For someone in a tiny flat, who had one rucksack of possessions to their name when they moved in, I think that’s pretty good.
I used to have several Billy bookcases full but homelessness is a bitch.
Congratulations on your “new” flat! However long you have been living there, that’s a great achievement!
Physical, actual books? Probably less than 10. I’m one of those heathens that didn’t mine adopting ebooks and audiobooks. I’ve moved somewhere around 20 times, and eventually it just became easier to shift everything to digital and donate my physical books.
Books made out of actual trees? Probably 10-20 (double that if you count technical books/manuals).
eBooks: 300-400 (maybe more?)
Physical: Somewhere beyond 10k. There is the living room with 50m of shelving for novels, etc. There is the studio with the professional books of my wife and me, and there is a large amount of books stored in cardboard boxes in the attic and the basement. And yes, apart from my wifes’ professional books, I’ve read them. Including the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Digital: My digital library has close to 15k books at the moment.
Damn, I aspire to be that well read.
The internet has destroyed my attention span and I’m struggling to get it back.
I had the same problem a couple of years ago. Be kind to yourself, and most importantly, read books you like. I often go back to page -turners to rekindle my interest in reading. After that, I might go to harder or deeper reads, but I wouldn’t get there if I wasn’t excited about reading all over again. These are my two cents, feel free to discard them.
My wife has maybe a couple hundred books. If you don’t count my comics or my RPG manuals-- for reasons– I own maybe a couple dozen. Counting the rooms we don’t normally keep books in, we own a couple of times that average (if it’s correct) per room in our house.
Hundreds. Maybe 1000.
I think you’re going to find higher than average numbers here vs. the general public.
I have around 600-700 books, that include study books and novels.
I don’t really know. Too many for me to bother counting them but probably in the high hundreds. In our living room we’ve got four or five meters worth of book shelves that are completely filled up and the overflow has started piling up in other rooms.
So at least a bunch :)
Completely off-topic, but I hate that we use averages for everything. Mode or median would be better for this because then you have a better picture of how many books people generally get - people like y’all with 100+ books throw off that average just as badly as people like me who have like, 3 books lol.
Hundreds of you count eBooks, about 5 if you don’t.
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Thats funny to me because recently I won a hundo on a scratch it and blew it on about 15 books via Amazon… Then I won another hundo and got 10 more.
