Books you have owned more than 1 copy of?

[OneUmberJoker]

At any time

I've lost books and bought a new copy.
Slammerkin, The Crimson Petal and The White, The Last Unicorn, Life in The Palace.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Unfuck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess
and probably a few others

DD recently bought her own copy of the Hobbit as she was too scared to take the copy handed down from Dad to me out of the house.

We have three copies of Harry Potter 1-5 and 2 of 6&7... my childhood copies, DDs copies and the Illustrated ones.

God, loads. I sometimes have a nice first edition, and a reading copy. From where I'm sitting I can see two copies of all three volumes of Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows trilogy, two copies of Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September, two copies of an anthology of Irish fantasy writing, and two of Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts, one with bad water damage, which is why I think I bought another.

But there are loads more. For ten years I lived between two different countries, and my books were split between the two.

Wuthering Heights
Far From The Madding Crowd and Return of the Native
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The God of Small Things
The Mabinogion

Wild Swans, I keep giving copies away to friends I think will enjoy it.

Several copies because you lost them or because they were so wonderful you passed them on?
I've lost several copies of the `Marie Kondo book😳

Stephen king the dark tower series. I have American and UK first editions. None signed by the great man though....sigh. Also have two copies of watership down, my original one from the 70's is getting too fragile to read!

Harry Potter series. If I can’t find one for the kids, I just buy another. I like to think I’m doing my bit for JKR 😂

1Q84 thought I'd never read it again, but missed it so repurchased it. I've read it three times and never get bored.

We have The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings in hardback, paperback and illustrated versions.

@randoname , forgot I already had a copy. I buy books second hand and usually pass books on when I've read them.

I've had duplicates of many books.
There are a few I've bought again to have a copy/re-read.

Been caught out once or twice by books that have been published under a different title.

My DC were born in the 90s so I ended up buying two copies of GOF so they could read at the same time.
Otherwise I very rarely re-read and I've got rid of 90% of my paper books. I bought Rivals on kindle to re-read because I couldn't see the print on my 1988 copy.

Famous Five - got mine, my brothers, my sisters.... we obviously weren't into sharing these books!

Rebecca - saw a fabulous cover... it made me buy it.

My original copy of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco fell to bits because I read it many times so I bought a new edition by Vintage with a very pretty cover

Two copies of Invisible Women - one for me, one for loaning out

Three copies of Anne Of The Island, two copies of the rest of the Anne books - one set for me, one set for my daughter, and my original Island that I read so often the pages started falling out so I had to replace it.

I'm on my second or third copies of several of my favourites that I have read until they fell apart.

Bit lowbrow compared the the previous posters but I've had multiple copies of the Adrian Mole diaries and Jilly Cooper's Riders and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous 😄

I don't have duplicate copies but I do buy physical copies of books I've enjoyed on Audible, or if I've listened to a BBC radio version of something. I like to have them to see the words on the page and to remind me of them as it's easy to forget what you've listened to, unlike a physical book you've read.

I'm the opposite of some of you on here who are getting rid of paper copies!

Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights

Dracula (i found the most beautiful one in the Cabinet of Curiosities in Haworth)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

I have two copies of Patrick Fermor's A Time of Gifts. One is a cheap paperback, for reading in the bath, and the other is a beautiful hardback that I use sparingly.

I also have three copies of P. G. Wodehouse's Right Ho Jeeves. Again, one is a cheap paperback for reading in the bath. Another is also a paperback, but I like it and don't want to crease or damage the cover. I also have a hardback, which, again, I use sparingly.

I have two copies of Aldous Huxley's Chrome Yellow. Both are paperbacks, but I love the original paperback cover and can't find a replacement, not even on Amazon. So I use the other paperback with a rubbish cover and smaller print. I have loads of hardback copies of Aldous Huxley's novels and essays that I bought in a secondhand shop that was closing down, many of them first editions. Some of them are gorgeous. I even have three hardbacks of Huxley's novel Eyeless in Gaza. If I ever make a good friend who likes Huxley, I will gift them one or two of those copies.

I have two copies of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, and I have his Sword of Honour trilogy in both a single volume and as individual copies.

I have more than one edition of the same works by George Orwell, Dickens, Jane Austen and Douglas Adams. Oh, and I have three copies of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray. I got a problem I tell ya.

'Watership Down' - one paperback, one third edition with the beautiful first edition style dustjacket.
'Minnow on the Say' - on copies two and three, both hardback, one with dustjacket
'The Snowgoose' - paperback was owned concurrently with nice hardback but got rid of former in decluttering.
'My Family and Other Animals' - ditto

An uninspiring thriller paperback I bought in the supermarket about 5 years ago, not realising I had already bought it and read it about two weeks previously! Both copies went to the charity shop.

I have 6 copies of one of those flower fairy books as EVERYONE thought they were being original giving Dd the one with her name on (very much of the early 2000s).

I have a copy and first edition of a book with my namesake as the title, so can't complain really.

i have two copies of a book that has my first name as the title. I'd forgotten about that one. I'll keep both as it's quite a slim book and they were gifts.

Two copies of all HP books, one set for the kids & one set for me to keep pristine.
Two copies of Pride and Prejudice; one that's at least 35 years old & falling apart through use and one that's a beautiful illustrated version at least 20 years old - it's close on A3 size, so too big to actually read comfortably. Plus it's on my kindle.
In fact I have a fair few books that I have paper editions of, and have on kindle.