How many books do you have in your house?

AnnapolisLari · September 2010

I read like a crazy person, and seem to have passed on this craziness to my kids. Stick out tongue

We have 2x 4' wide by 5' tall bookshelves in the living room (packed. one paperbacks and one hardcover), one set of 3 shelves in the family room ( 2 shelves children's books, 1 shelf my cookbooks/craft books), a bookshelf in DDs room with all of the board and baby books, and a 5 shelf unit of books in the basement of books the kids will 'grow into'.

I can't even guess at an exact count, and probably don't want to know how many we actually have.

GinandTonic · September 2010

Fewer than I did a few weeks ago, since I just brought several boxes of both adult and kid books in to work to give away (and what doesn't get taken I'll take to the library or goodwill to donate).

I'm a crazy reader too and I like buying books for the kids. My getting a Kindle about a year ago (and starting to use the library more often) has cut me back quite a bit

j-w · September 2010

I could not even begin to guess. I try to pass on books that DH and I read to either Goodwill or friends. But, we hold on to books we really like. The kids have a TON of books each in their rooms. It's pretty bad!

Andrewsgal · September 2010

Well I just donated over 500 to good will, we are moving and I have a kindle now, so I am doing some major decluttering. The more books than I can count, I would probably say somwhere over 1000. We have full bookshelves in each of their rooms, another in the playroom, and two full shelves in the closet in the playroom, and three boxes of books for when they are older from my collection when I taught. I am a sucker for books and can never say no, I spent over $150 at the book fair last week (in my defense lots of them are Christmas gifts for the kids) honestly it is almost like a sickness.

Carol*Brady · September 2010

2 5' tall ones, a 7' tall one, the kids have one, built ins in the office & probably 10 boxes. Mostly Architecture & Art books.

KoriBrett · September 2010

Oh hell.

2 6ft tall by 3ft wide bookcases full. 2 4ft tall by 28?inch wide full. One 2by4 full. 4 of the 9 cubes full in DS's room. 2 large baskets full (basketfulls?), and half the entertainment center.

Plus 7 or 8 boxes of books we packed up, in our basement. And 5 more boxes at his dad's house.

summerbrideDC · September 2010

Between the built-ins in the living room, the stand-alone shelves in our rooms, and the books in boxes in the garage? Hundreds, easily. I've got a mild case of the book hoarding. LOL

I donate about 100 books every time we move & I''m donating quite a few to E's school rummage sale next week, but there are at least 100 books I'm not wiling to part w/.

MrsStubbs · September 2010

Wow, I thought we had alot. I'm not a big reader so it's all kid books but, we have about 150? I stacked almost all of them in DD's room and we are working our way from one end to the other.

Marchmamma · September 2010

is this a trick question? lol I have way to many to count. I order from scholastic all the time. It is my weakness. My kids would rather get a book than a toy.

camrude · September 2010

Oh hell...who knows?! DH and I are both book freaks. The kids each have a book shelf packed with books DH and I both have a tall shelf full of books...and then there are the ones in boxes. We gave away about 7 boxes of books last year when we cleaned out our storage.

Rebekah1021 · September 2010

I have 2 giant bookcases full of books that I randomly pick up and of cookbooks.

DD has a large bookcase full of bokks too.

I keep telling myself that if I get a kindle I will free up more space in the house.

JOEBunny · September 2010

We give away as many as we can, but we have probably 1000 in the house between kid books and our books. We also get books from the library 2 or 3 times a month.

veloelle · September 2010

We have a library instead of a formal living room. We have 6 bookcases with three shelves in each, plus a bottom part w/ glass. Half of the shelves are filled w/ books. DD has a dedicated bookcase. Last count she had 100+ books. Almost all were gifts, and my boss gave me two paper grocery bags FULL of books from his girls.

For DH and I, probably a few hundred.

femmegem · September 2010

No idea. DH is an academic (archaeologist) and I got my master's degree in art history, so we have tons of art, history, archaeology, etc. books. Plus I love to read fiction, so I have tons of novels around. And I used to be an elementary school teacher and my mom taught elementary school for 30+ years, so the kids have probably 200 books of their own at least.

We have two large bookshelves in our family room that are packed, two more large ones in DH's office that are also packed, and then the huge shelving unit in DS1's room that has a ton of children's books in it.

Just a whole load of books, really. They make moving even more painful than it would normally be.

AnnapolisLari · September 2010

Ahhh, I feel much better. DH is not a reader, and asks me all the time if we need all of these books. Duh, of course we do. I reread them all. the. time.

I did just sort out about 40 books that I either hated or have never read and never will. The rest are mine! All mine!!

AggieCouple · September 2010

The kids have a lot. We have 4 medium to large bookcases of their books, plus several baskets scattered about the house filled with books.

H and I, however, are cheap and get ours from the library. We actually own only two small bookcases worth, many of which were gifts or bought a long time ago.

eclaires · September 2010

I have no clue, but too many!

We just moved, so I am drowning in boxes of books, but I can't part with them. We're using part of our big family room/great room as an office and we plan to get some bigger bookshelves because we have two full bookshelves and stacks of boxes of books in that area right now. We also have several boxes in the garage waiting to come in.

MH bought me a kindle for my birthday after moving my books for 4th time and unpacking most of them. LOL.

And Jackson and Scarlett have two bookshelves full of books.

stacynikki · September 2010

I read a ton but I either sell them in a garage sale or I sell them to Half Priced Books.

SpartanGirl · September 2010

Too many to count. The older 2 both have two bookshelves each in their room, DD2 has one bookshelf that's full. DH and I have 3 huge, tall shelves in the family room, and we have more in boxes.

YouAreMyILoveYou · September 2010

Hundreds. I have my BA in English, so I alone have my own bookcase filled with Norton Anthologies and novels.

Each of the girls has her own 4 shelf bookshelf with books, too.

If we are out I would rather buy boosk than toys -- so we end up with a lot of them!

DH keeps bugging me to get rid of some of them -- especially mine, because chances are I'm never going to open them up again -- but I just can't do it!

sarahjared · September 2010

Not too many books for grown ups since we get ours from the library or pass them on when finished.

DD has a shitton. I teach and can get some great deals. I am always buying her books.

BubblyToes · September 2010

A crapton. Seriously. And I gave a ton away when we moved into this house.

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