How many metres of bookshelf do your children have . . .

[Takver]

and do they ever get rid of books?

DD currently has 2.5m of shelves (I just measured), another metre of books along the skirting board, plus generally another 8-10 books out from the library . . . I am thinking of suggesting a one in - one out policy . . . am I being unreasonably heartless? Not entirely sure where more bookshelves could fit in the room, it is not that big . . .

oh, and they have about another metre at my parent's house as my mother buys books in charity shops and we leave some of them up there for them to read on visits.

DD, aged 2, has about 8 metres or thereabouts.

But she has all of my special books from when I was a child (first edition Dahls, Narnia, the Classics etc) for when she's older on there too.

I. Do. Not. Throw. Away. Books.

[librarian]

Get. rid. of. books...?

Nope, don't understand what you're saying!

don't think I could start to measure tbh...

DD has in excess of about 10m

I have 27m plus lots

I do set books free - but I am also a massive re-reader

Gosh I have no idea - we have one of the verbaudet bookcases similar to this

which really only fits his baby books (up to 2 yrs) Keeping these out as DS2 will be along soon.

Then he has one expedit shelf/cube, and the equivalent of that size upstairs for his bedtime books.

Fortunately the books are getting slimmer as he gets older! (hes 2.5)

I barely ever buy new books - most are hand-me-downs or car boot buys or presents.

my brother had OVER 111m and no mistakes in typing. He recently moved to a smaller house so not sure what he has done with them...
I try not to buy any books for the children but to just go to the library with them, so 3dc have 2m of own books and 1 m of library books (they now do 24 books on 1 card, and they have 6 cards amongst the 3 of them.)

5.5m in her bedroom, all full - plus half a shelf on the downstairsbookcase too.

We also get rid of books. We either take them to DD's school for the library, school I work at, pass them onto younger friends or take them to a charity shop. I go through them every so often as her reading has improved, etc. But we also buy an awful lot, often from charity shops.

gosh what a question, my 9 year old has about 20mtrs of bookshelves, she reads at least 3 books at a time and now has a reading age of 17years which is really difficult to buy for!! She is in the middle of the Twilight series at the moment, while reading Harry Potter and The Northern Lights!!

My 7 year old has nearly 10mts of books and is catching up fast!! She is reading some Naughtiest School girl books right now, nothing like Enid Blyton to stretch the vocab!!