How many books do your children really read?

[dubbyoo]

We are short on space and I'm trying to clear out. My kids (2 and 4) seem to have hundreds and hundreds of books everywhere. I like them to have plenty to choose from but our current volume needs a cull. Do you have a maximum book limit?

We have as many as fits in the books shelf. When it is full I cull.

Same as above. I allow as many books as will fit on her 3 shelf book shelf. She's only 2 so it's not full yet- only 2 shelfs full but she's been read all of them and likes to look at them all. Probably will have a cull of the ones she's outgrown though sometime after Christmas.

Is that one shelf? I thinks it's good to have a clear limit like that. What do you do with the culled ones? Is it possible to sell them second hand anywhere or just charity shop them?

I reckon about a shelf's worth is right - although my kids both have an entire bookcase each!

Mine are 5 and 3 and have a bookcase (3 shelves) each. I cull when they have more than fits on their bookcase.
My 5 year old mainly reads chapter books now so we pass down the rest to DD2, anything ripped/too young for DD2 gets culled from her bookcase.

My house is full of books. I don’t limit books at all. So there’s a case on the landings two in the living room, three in the boys’ room, four in my eldest’s room, piles of them scattered everywhere too. I took 24 out of the middle child’s bed the other day!:o

Mmmm, books! :o

We have a largish, 3-shelf IKEA billy for their shared room: once that's full, we cull and charity shop. Mine are 8 and 11 now, so I have to give them some say in what is kept / chucked. I've accepted that neither of them are bookworms like I was, it's a different world now. So we don't need a ton of books everywhere.

Loads
When we moved we left about 50 outside and people took them

Mine are not limited at all in books and have a full bookcase each and some books on the other bookshelves around the house. They are reading "proper" books now though, when it was toddler and early years books I limited it because they are all different sizes and always look messy on shelves as a result. Once they are reading real books they are easier to store