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?

YANBU. Reading is like breathing for me. My DH calls my books 'my friends' He has 6 books. I may have 6000.

Oooh yes, I love the way my bookcases look full of my favourite books. I feel like they are me, show who I am and I sometimes just sit & look at them. So many are from studying and have memories so strong I couldn't throw them out!

I love buying new (or new to me) books, they're so full of promise, but I have made a promise to myself that I will only buy ESSENTIAL books that I really need, not just want. Like self-help/parenting or the latest thing everyone's talking about. The rest of the time I will read those books that I never got around to reading and Im excited about it.

One of my guilty pleasures is crime fiction but they look RUBBISH on my bookcase in more ways than one so I might get a Kindle for my whodunit fix. Oh and there's also my erotica habit...

Did anyone try Bookcrossing BTW - that was exciting...

The charity shop nearest to us never seems to charge less than half the current RRP for a book. Regardless of the books age, popularity or condition.

It's particularly silly when they do that for recently published, still in bestseller chart books that I can buy new at Tesco's for half the RRP or less.

They multiply. Every time I move (frequently), I discard at least a hundred books. When I get around to unpacking them - often several years months later - there seem to be just as many as before.

My books must be shagging in their boxes. Does anybody know of a book contraceptive?

Did anyone try Bookcrossing

LittleBugs, was the MN thing where everybody got terribly upset that someone was keeping all the books?

Love books, read lots of them, but don't feel the need to display them everywhere. Will be pleased when the next generation properly does away with the habit of hanging on to hundreds (or thousands) of books.

Mmmmmm bookshelf porn

Oh, god, I do that Or rather, I did until several people suggested it was anal and weird.

Don't listen to others garlic, do your own thing. Some may think it's weird, others may think it's cool.

I am finally beginning to accept that we may need to get rid of some. All available walls covered with shelving, most double- or triple- stacked. Several cupboards also full of books. Piles of books all over the place apart from that. Something needs to give.

But this is what happens when you digitise all your reading :(

... and then you have to buy some of this.

Casey, pre-iPad/Kindle (even Internet) it made sense to hang on to all those old books. Now it's madness. In the future it will be the height of bad taste. At the end day, all those books are generally a subtle form of boasting about how much one has read, are they not?

Oooh, thanks, Teas!

AIBU to plan spending several days during the holidays ignoring the kids and arranging my books in colour order?

I have to do this. i just have to!

I dont have any system btw, everything is mixed up as my favourite thing is searching through my shelves and discovering something I havent read for years. i have them 3 deep on my biggest shelf so there is alot of scope for treasure hunting!

I love books.Can't have too many.

They are comfortable and homely and unsterile and they make me happy.

You could put so many toys in all those cubby holes!

Rich I simply cant bring myself to throw books away. I am ruthless when it comes to anything else but books....never. It would be like clearing out half of my kids!

Its not boasting for me at all, they are my most precious posessions and I cant imagine throwing them out.

Fellow biliophiles, can I ask a q?

Are you generally very tidy and organised or quite lax and messy? I have a theory about book lovers and I would like to know if i am right!

Bibliophiles even. You would think with all those books, there would be a dictionary somewhere

you can never have too many books... (or guitars)

bogeyface I am a tidy and organised person trapped in a lax and messy life....

:o sounds like me Skinny. In my head I am organised, in RL....nah, not a chance!

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions then book my in at the Devils Hilton!

book me in

i love books, I'm with whomever said they mistrust those who live in houses where there are none.

I have leant so many books out that I never get back and it drives me barmy!