I have way too damn many lol. probably at least 400
I specifically try to keep the number of physical books I own to a minimum, mainly by borrowing and giving away/selling them. I also moved some two years ago, that’s alway a push to “diet” more.
This being said, I still have way too many books. I’d guesstimate some 120 leisure books (read some 80-90) and some 20 work books (read/studied all of them). Some 50 virtual ones, read all but two I’m currently reading.
Physical: Somewhere beyond 10k. There is the living room with 50m of shelving for novels, etc. There is the studio with the professional books of my wife and me, and there is a large amount of books stored in cardboard boxes in the attic and the basement. And yes, apart from my wifes’ professional books, I’ve read them. Including the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Digital: My digital library has close to 15k books at the moment.
Damn, I aspire to be that well read.
The internet has destroyed my attention span and I’m struggling to get it back.
I had the same problem a couple of years ago. Be kind to yourself, and most importantly, read books you like. I often go back to page -turners to rekindle my interest in reading. After that, I might go to harder or deeper reads, but I wouldn’t get there if I wasn’t excited about reading all over again. These are my two cents, feel free to discard them.
I feel like it’s likely 2% of people with 600 books each, and 98% of people having 3.
For me the answer that I need to clean my apartment. I have 8 on the kitchen island, 3 on the couch, ~80 on the shelf, ~80 more in the big drawers, and 7 in a big stack in the bedroom. And, I just discovered, 2 on the floor.
Books Georg, who lives in a cave consuming literature all day every day, is an outlier and should not be counted.
Completely off-topic, but I hate that we use averages for everything. Mode or median would be better for this because then you have a better picture of how many books people generally get - people like y’all with 100+ books throw off that average just as badly as people like me who have like, 3 books lol.
Books made out of actual trees? Probably 10-20 (double that if you count technical books/manuals).
eBooks: 300-400 (maybe more?)
Oh g-d, I don’t even wanna include ebooks. I have at least 1000 ebooks, and about 100 or so audiobooks.
62, I just counted. For someone in a tiny flat, who had one rucksack of possessions to their name when they moved in, I think that’s pretty good.
I used to have several Billy bookcases full but homelessness is a bitch.
Congratulations on your “new” flat! However long you have been living there, that’s a great achievement!
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Hundreds. Maybe 1000.
I think you’re going to find higher than average numbers here vs. the general public.
E books: over 800 (read like 50 😭) Physical books: around 300?
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Same! Give or take 50. I haven’t counted in a while
Physical: about 100.
Ebooks: several dozen.
Audiobooks: a couple dozen.Lmmfao!
Just fiction, we’re over 1k, though most of that is paperbacks.
Hell, I used to have most of that 15 on the little bookshelf outside the bathroom. I keep some there for guests lol. Though, tbh, there’s a tablet there now that gets used more often. I keep it loaded with ebooks, though it’s rarely used for that.
I thinned out the actual books in favor of the tablet a few years ago, so there’s only five books there now.
Physical, actual books? Probably less than 10. I’m one of those heathens that didn’t mine adopting ebooks and audiobooks. I’ve moved somewhere around 20 times, and eventually it just became easier to shift everything to digital and donate my physical books.
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Estimating 500, but I’d have to check every flat surface in the apartment for a full countA little over 87 shelf-feet of physical books, so over a thousand for me. My spouse prefers e-books and audiobooks and he’s a hoarder, so at least another 1000 for him.
