How many of you keep a little personal library of books?

Question

Isn't is fun? Please validate my book habit :)

Answer 1

Validate your book habit? Good heavens Mrs. Evans what are the intellects to think!??
I have a large collection of books and my library will continue to grow.I started when I first left home and living in Hamilton Ont. in 1973 when there was no such thing as personal home computers and the Internet was only an experiment 4 years old!
Although I've thrown out a lot of paperbacks...(yea I know sounds like a heathens' work right?) I've kept all my hardcovers and a lot of soft covers. The paperbacks were slowly disintegrating from the pulp acids etc.
Today it is not large but it is selective.
Yes it is fun and when you go to an old book store it can get down right exciting because the out of print books are there and no where else.
I don't think that you and I are the only ones who are literate to the point of actually collecting classics, fiction, coffee table books, and history stories etc.
Enjoy it. This collection of yours will bring you decades of comfort and warmth.

Answer 2

I even have around 600 books. of those approximately 60% are novels (classics besides as greater cutting-edge ones) 30% are non-fiction (I extremely get exhilaration from books approximately Elizabthan England yet there are a number of matters) and 10% are uncommon or unusual books I even have gathered.My standard author at the instant is Kathy Reichs yet i like a rather good variety of authors i could no longer record them - i'm additionally very keen on Giles Milton who writes maximum remarkable historic works.i've got now stopped procuring books as I have not have been given to any extent further room yet have extremely joined the close by library which has unfolded a rather good variety of latest and exciting examining opportunities....i comprehend sound unhappy yet i like examining! i are not getting as plenty time to study as i'd like yet i'm getting in approximately an hour another day. I even have now resorted to technologies - I only downloaded the completed works of Shakespeare to my iPod so i will study that each and every time i'm getting the possibility.

Answer 3

I think all true lovers of books, buy books and then this adds up to a library.

If you are a true lover of books, and you must be, since you have a library, good for you.

There is nothing wrong with expressing your love of books. Everyone spends money on things that they love and that are important to them, so why not books?

Books really are a treasure - you learn, feel, experience so much from them. It's like entering another world.

Your book habit is something to cherish and to be proud of.

So from one book lover to another - keep building up your library - it's really a very beautiful and precious collection.

Answer 4

I do. I buy more books than I can read! Drives my boyfriend insane, but I figure if and when they stop making books (you know, the whole paper vs. technology thing) I figure I'll still have plenty to enjoy.

Book wisdom from Pete Hamill:
"There are 10,000 books in my library and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountants. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer."

Answer 5

You dont need validation to be who you are. But since you asked I have a library with several hundred books, mostly history, but some computer books, Anne Rice and a few other types thrown in.

Answer 6

My little library of books that I have saved over about the last 10 years(because I sold or gave away the rest) only consists of about 60,000 books. I have read well over 565,000 books in my life and used to store them at my older brothers house. He ended up selling them or giving them away to various veteran's charities and hospitals because when he moved to his new house he didn't have any room for them. Wish he would have saved them now though, and so does he, because some of them were worth a lot of money to book collectors'.

Answer 7

I have quite a collection...a room full wall to wall. I love books, love to read and always have. I find that I can go back and reread some of them and enjoy them again. Consider your book habit validated...mine is too.

Answer 8

I've kept my personal library since my college days by starting with a paperback of "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain then some more've followed suit till it's a collection of about 5 to 800 or 1,000, I've never counted them. Of course, it's fun to collect and read them, each has its own background and I read them with fond memories.

Answer 9

I have a personal library, but I wouldn't call it little considering I have about 3000 books in it. If you look in the dictionary, you'll see my picture under "bibliophile." I love to read and collect books.

Answer 10

Yes,and over the years it just grows bigger and bigger
I think that everyone in my family has their own personal book collection.After going into the attic you will find mores books of books for someone else book collection.