How Many Books are in Your Personal Library?

Question

Less than 50
50 to 100
100 to 150
Over 200?

I should have mentioned to include the childrens books, my number quadrupled.

Answer 1

I have well over 300 hard back books. Most of them are horror stories. I have most Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, and too many to list.

Answer 2

nicely, this is very own. whether, there are some staples i think of a severe minded guy or woman might do nicely to have of their library. The Iliad and Odyssey - Homer The Republic - Plato The Analects - Confucius The paintings of conflict - solar Tzu The Holy Bible The Bhagavad Gita 1001 Nights The Divine Comedy - Dante Paradise lost - Milton finished Works of Shakespeare Don Quixote - Cervantes Faust - Goethe Morte d' Arthur - Malory Moby Dick - Melville Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky David Copperfield - Dickens on the beginning of Species - Darwin The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon The Prince - Machiavelli hence Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche Relativity: The particular and everyday concept - Einstein The Golden Bough - Frazer Ulysses - Joyce

Answer 3

way over 5000!! so far over 5000- i wouldn't even want to try and count them and i am serious

and if you count Readers Digest - then that would probably put me way over 10,000. i have almost every issue from about 1978 on. i even found the entire set from the year i was born (1959) at a garage sale and bought them too !

my Grandma gave me my love of reading, when we would go and visit she would always send home a box of books for me. i still have them, since most of them are the Readers Digest condensed books. some are very old and still have their original paper jackets on them. i also belonged to a book club all through grade school and junior high - still have them too. i have one entire bedroom in my house filled with nothing but bookshelves full of books. there is no room for anything else - even have bookshelves back to back in the middle of the room. i just went up and counted - i have 18 bookcases that have 5 shelves each and all are 2 deep with books then a bookcase my husband built that is about 6 feet long and 5 1/2 feet high with 6 shelves that are also 2 deep. i am not bragging here, as a matter of fact, i guess i should be a little embarrassed by the fact that i can't - absolutely can't ever throw a book away. i can't even bear to lend them out for fear of not getting them back - maybe because so many hold the special memory of being given to me by my Grandma that i love and miss so much

Answer 4

Due to moving out of state a few times and then back again
to the same general area, I don't have as many now. And I
have also sold many at summer outside sales also. I would
say I have much less than 50. Our shelving for books also has
given way to my husbands video collection that has expanded
over the last couple of months. So now there is only my Time
Life collection and some other historical books I want to keep.
People who move around aren't as inclined to keep books
that have to be boxed and shipped, as are those who remain
in the same house for 50 some years. I remember a collection my husband had of books relating to John Wayne.
We had to thin out our personal favorites or try to keep hauling them. And he decided to sell his entire collection and
he sold them or even gave many away. Just to find 'good homes' for them. So now we have very little of what we've had
in our adult life times. We've learned not to put too much
attachment on 'things'. Especially 'things' that can be lost in
some manner or taken from you. So we keep a precious
few around us now. So tho it was important to have a lilbrary
at one time, it's no longer a priority. As one day, we'd want
our collections to go on to others. And right now, we don't
have but one person in mind for part of them. So it's wise to
not be a hoarder of any collections unless there's someone
who wants and can inherit them.

Answer 5

That's a difficult question to answer, because most of my books I pass on after I read them. Also, My best friend died last year & he had an extensive library for an apartment, and I've only gone through about 1/4 by now. If you count those over 200.

Answer 6

Over 200.

Answer 7

Over 200. Most non-fiction - cookbooks, travel book, needlework, genealogy, computer, research (such as identification books as for birds, flowers, shells, trees, etc.) are all keepers but I use public library for ordinary reading material. I go through 4 or 5 a week. I'm retired and a fast reader.

Answer 8

I got rid of about 1,000 that were in the attic when we switched from a boiler to heat pumps. There are still more than 200 (probably closer to 350) throughout the house.

Ditto phonograph records. We have about 1,000 of those. And at least 200 CDs.

Answer 9

Nearing 200, and counting. And have lent a lot out and they have not been returned. And given so many away, mostly Christian Books, when I have felt they would help someone who was having with some issue.

Answer 10

Well, before I lost the house, 50,000 or so. I ended up donating them to the local VA hospital. They were inundated and ended up sending thousands of them to Martinez VA Hospital and the Palo Alto VA Hospitals in California. That was 4 years ago and I sure wish I still had them. Nothing satisfies as well as a good book, well maybe a good woman but....