OMG I've actually got over 650 books!!

I had to empty my Dad's house earlier this year. It still had the majority of my books there too. Over 1500. It was only a 2 bed semi! I've got it down to around 800, a small amount were my Dad's that hold a sentimental value & the rest are mine from early teens until I left home at 20 (almost 10 years ago). We I probably already had another 300 in our house (including cook books & embroidery books). Also 6 Atlases & maybe a dozen different encyclopedia. The children have about 150 between the 5 of them. I've probably got 100ish on my kindle. With the the exception of the cook books, embroidery books & encyclopedia all the physical book have been read at least twice, the kindles at least once some twice.

1203 on kindle.
Wow. Didn't realise it was that many.
About 100 physical books as well.

2017 on the Kindle, and I would think about 1500-2000 physical books (including my 400+ cookbooks), Currently sorting through all the book boxes before we move back to the UK next year, and trying (and failing) to be ruthless about what I chuck out. I have two full boxes to go to the charity booksale so far, and am 30 boxes i out of about 95. I have the hardbacks to do as well. The academic books I will try and sell.

I have a sudden urge to go home and count my books. I have read most of them or bits of, due to more than half being non-fiction.
I grew up with books in all the bedrooms, the upstairs landing, the kitchen, the living room, the dining room, the entrance hallway... I think its great and you never know when you’ll be bored enough to read them all.

Don’t tell DH but I’ve bought at least 4 new ones since the clearout, have already suggested a smaller bookcase on the landing for books (am down to one shelf in a cupboard currently) so he gets his cupboard back but the real reason is it will give me space to buy more. I’m a lost cause

Hidingtonothing Yes it was worth it all that space you now have to enjoy to sit and read a book in

I recently created a spreadsheet of all my fiction books, and between us, dh and I have over 1050 - mostly mine - (and I have bought more since I last updated the List). I am intending to list the non fiction too - I want a full list so if, God forbid, anything happened to my library, I could recreate it.

I’m weeping here, gave the vast majority of mine to the local hospital a few weeks ago (am brutally decluttering my house) and still struggling to come to terms with the loss On the bright side my living room looks beautiful with less furniture and clutter and it makes me smile every time I walk in so I guess it was worth it

Wow you have the full Chalet school! I'm so jealous I'm missing a few x

Hah, I think I have about 3000.

Around 1000 now roughly though I have cleared out a lot of crime series that I won't reread. And have bought and sold my complete chalet schools twice. Sold all the Agatha Christie's.
Not bought a new physical book for ages, bar text books. It's now kindle books when 99p or I reserve from library.
I do complete re reads of series quiet often. Harry Potter last year and all the Trebizons. All the Antonia forest ones this year.

I've got that on one bookshelf! I own 4 chests of drawers of books on top of that - that's 24 drawers in total

Plus 2 more bookshelves

Possibly 2000+ books. Will read them all
when I retire...

SpoonBlender
See me slowly turn green with envy. Because of the books and the shelves and the room to put the shelves in.
I manage only about 60 m of books plus about 430 on kindle.

I recently tried to weed some out. I stacked them by the door. All but 4 are back on the shelf now.

Ahh, that's timely, SpoonBlender. I'm having to rehouse mine and my paperwork, and was looking at around £1000 from Ikea. Maybe I should just get a joiner in.

I got rid of 500 when I moved so only have about 300 now plus 40 unread. I am being ruthless about donating read books to charity shops and only keep ones which have significance.

Racecardriver £1800 on solid bespoke fitted wooden shelvery by a decent joiner for ours, we went without a proper holiday that year and it was so worth it. You should be able to do yours for less than a grand...
If you happen to be somewhere close to Leeds DM me and I'll pass on the chap we got to do it.

Oh thank you I’m so relieved that I’m not the only one. Books on bookshelf, under beds, on top of wardrobes, in cupboards, in the garage. More books on kindle. I dare not go near a library. I’ll never get round to reading them. I’ve even put an apology letter in some of the boxes just in case I die and a member of my family are sorting out my stuff. Why do we do it? Anyone know?

After two major purges I've managed to cut mine down to about 1200...

I really envy you. We have a couple thousand filling up our entire ‘playroom’. The choice is between binning them and buying most of them again at some point (a lot of reference books) or spend a thousand pounds on cheap shelving to accommodate them.

About another 300 ebooks. So far.

We moved from the master bedroom to a converted attic room, turned the big bedroom into working-from-home office and... library.

120 metres of shelves. Books about 110 metres of them. Whee! I think there's around 6000 of the buggers. That's a lifelong collection on both of our parts, plus the good bits inherited from my mum's passing.

I had to stop buying paper books as a new year's resolution (only broken a few times, I'd given myself a getout clause when an ebook of it wasn't available, or art books). I've still run out of space...

350 ish ''real books''
234 on my kindle.

Less than I thought....I must go book shopping soon in case I run out.

I've got 2702

I use collectorz.com Book Collector - I use the PC version but there are Android and Mac versions.

www.collectorz.com/book

Also versions for Comics, Music, Movies and Games.

I have 1000s and bought 3 more paperback and 2 kindle ones today there is just a comfort in buying a book.

@spok- which app do you use? That's a great idea!