to think theres nothing wrong with having a few books?

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Well perhaps few is slightly underestimating 1732 but there's no such thing as having too many right?

Totally agree. DH would totally disagree but I don't care

Get a kindle
You can have thousands of books without having your home look like the back room of a charity shop.

I love books, i only get rid of the crapola ones, can't give books i like away, cause i often re read them!!!! BOOKS are the best

Nope no such thing

I like walls papered with bookshelves :)

I've got loads too. Daren't count them.

Can't/won't have a kindle thingy as it just wouldn't feel the same. I like to read/hold a book, and I would probably break the thing if I dropped it while falling asleep reading in bed.

I have a kindle. It has 3oo books on it. I also have more like 3ooo actual books.

YANBU. I am completely suspicious of the occupants of houses where there are no visible books.

I'm with you mental - I too have an obscene amount. Have renctly moved house and books took up about 80% of the van space - my dad was swearing lots
Desperately need a nice tall bookshelf but the move has skinted me so until next month they will have to sit around in big piles in the new house! :(

I have loads too!! Shelves and shelves of lovely books. I don't want a kindle though, I like actual books far too much.

))kindles(((

(((books))) all lovely and smelling of fresh print when you first open them.

sighs

I love books. I have a 'few'. You can't have a home without books.

I have 456,852,7451 books. I won.

That's not counting my kindle books my friend came over to borrow a book tonight and it took us over an hour to find it. She said she expects to find me buried under a pile one day lol

If someone got rid of all my books and presented me with a kindle instead I would cry with misery.

I especially like books, first or second hand with inscriptions in like "To Slag, happy 21st love Nanna". Or old books from a second hand bookshop with "To Dorothy, I hope you like this lovely book, love Edna"

The smell of a brand new book reminds me of the first heady days at uni where entering Blackwells and Dylans was almost a turn on.

Oh and er YANBU, not at all.

Books are lovely - but not if you have no space for other stuff in your home, or if you are keeping books you thought were crap/are very outdated in a not-interesting way (if you're hanging onto a Changing Rooms redecorating guide it might be time to let go)

Otherwise I love books.

Also love my books. I have a whole cupboard that I've picked up in charity shops and not read yet, but I still ended up buying two more to take on holiday this week.

Drives my husband nuts - especially as DD is taking after me now as well !

YANBU. I love books!

And they make excellent insulation. We have one or two thousand in the house and another one or two thousand in the shed-office. and I'm in denial about the other thousand in MIL's house

I've said this before, but having a Kindle doesn't stop you having books. It isn't either/or. They don't make you sign in blood never to open a book again! Thet are very convenient. I love mine, but I am currently reading a book lent to me by a friend. I don;t think my house could physically take another book, so the Kindle is a Godsend

We also have a house full of books and my kindle has done nothing to change that!

Usually i buy new books or quite new books in charity shops - i've got far too many but love them. So YANBU.
My family & friends don't understand why i keep the books i like when i've read them once. But a lot are factual or biographies. I only give away books i don't like.

I did recently buy a properly old book with the inscription - ''Granton Rd. School, Kathleen Martin, for the best flower collection School Journey to Weymouth 1934''

I wonder what Kathleen was like & what happened to her...

Ismeyes- best of both worlds then!

Books are made of paper and to get paper you must chop down trees.

Much better for the planet if we move away from paper books and go digital.
I have 2000plus books on my kindle and room for 1000plus more. How many tress would it take to make that many books?

Somebody on here (you know who you are) has shelved their books according to colour - it looks amazing and I am so so jealous.

I yearn for enough books and enough storage to be able to do that one day.

you too cardibach- best of both worlds.