Hi, was wondering how many books do you have in your house?
My friends has a whole room of books, we often go there as if it was a library.
i think more than 5000 books in his house.
Mine is over 1000, but not til can open a book shop.

So lowyatiers, how many books do u have in your house? >9000?
and do u really read those books? or is it just for decoration?
hahaha... show other ppl u are educated ma..





This post has been edited by roticanai92: Feb 10 2009, 04:42 PM

on my own around 100++ books.

but my house have a room full with books,wall to wall.

I'm not so sure how much. maybe more than 500++?

I've read some of it..but sometimes there's just book that I wasn't interested in it.Political dissemination,biography,old literature books and poem.

If my house at kl around 50, back in my hometown around 500. Of course I try to read those are readable, I'm a practical person, I dun store book for decoration.

How many books.. around 200+ish. i dunno, never catalogue my books.

i think i have 500+ (including children reads like enid blyton stuff).. now selling some of them off to clear space.

I voted for 200-500. I'm not sure how many books but definitely more than 200. I consider this collection very small because i have limited space at home. My cupboard is too small

wish to expand but...

wait till i get my own space

i didnt store it in cupboards though. its everywhere in my house.

haha, at least u took the time to read it. some ppl juz put it there for decoration.

never catalogue mine, but roughly more than 200 la..
coz whole cupboard not enough space for it..

haha, cannot sell then donate lo.. I also gave a few of my books to cousins and niece.

haha, small collection? how much is considered big?

me too, but my mum will kill me if I throw around my house.

more than 200 plus all in my hometown where i stored it in my lil sis's room. almost all my king's collection there

ooo..
the one who voted more than 5000, how come no comment?
and ppl who voted more than 1000, how do u keep order of ur books~?

throw around?haha..

hometown got around 300, half of it is my parent reference book

around 100 novels flung all around my bedroom

aiseh, urs leh?
muz read more!

wa, that's quite a lot of novels..
wat kind of novels is tat?

My collection decreased a bit a few years ago when blardy termites ate some of my books *sobs*. Even my Nabokov's Lolita wasn't spared!

35+

Mostly Thriller novels....crime novels...murder mysteries yadda yadda yadda

hah.. looks like u like exciting novels, especially criminal wans..
mind introducing a few good ones?

I'm pretty sure I have >200 novels on my shelves. And maybe up to 100 more non-fiction (travel guidebooks, business books, etc.) I used to have more but I got rid of a lot of old books as well as boring novels.

I have arranged them neatly on my shelves (I used to have an entire wall shelved for my books; top to bottom). Haven't read all of them, so I now have about >20 books I haven't read.

ish if counted for all my family members, that would be more than 1k mark lol. my mum alone, her book were everywhere.. and sometimes at kitchen also can found her book. my lil sis in the other hand, owned 2 full bookcases and that house was filled with books and papers almost everywhere.

haha, then u can open up a library and rent books to others.
but house fill wif books all around, isnt tat messy?
and I love my book, don throw around la, haha~

Wow not bad, most of you have more than 200++

This post has been edited by nicholaswinters87: Mar 16 2009, 07:20 AM

tats quite little i think.
western ppl sure have a lot books in their house, no?

my friend have 2 big book shelves in her room. I think should be around 1000 books

i got most of enid blytons books ( except the Amelia Jane series ), Harry potter set, Misunfortunate Series, LOTR, Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, Earthsea by Ursula, Twilight Boxset, n etc... i cant remember most of my books... but it's like 1000++ coz i had a room filled with book shelf and each bedroom has 2 bookshelfs...

I have 3 book shelves. but contains different kind of books. like my school magazine, I have like 30 school magazines!

how's LOTR? i heard its boring~

i have a few cupboardful, and a home library

LOTR is a MASTERPIECE!! a MUST HAVE series in ur collection... it's WAY better than Harry Potter series... it's good to get the unabridged version... try not to get those simplified version...

i also like Artemis Fowl series... ^^ damn cocky hero... but very JAMES BOND gadgets...

i bought the twilight series... but i dont have the will to read it...

school magazine?? i try to keep them... but during spring cleaning... my mom juz campak them away...

This post has been edited by moniqee: Jul 4 2009, 08:01 PM

walao, campak school magazine?! *heartache*
those are priceless memories! I have 15 years at least of memories from my secondary school, all my brothers in the same school.

sure boh? LOTR's is so tough to read, so many words i don't understand...
twilight is so popular, read liao let me know if its good!

lol LOTR is not exactly tough la...just some terminologies may be funny during ur first read through

Twilight....well...its okay I guess...but I blame the hype surrounding it

hey... i did mention in the previous post... that it's not me who campak ok? oh well... for me... it's juz me studying coz sibling's age very wide...

LOTR is not tough to read... it's really a LITERATURE masterpiece.. the words are descriptive enough to imagine the world... words u dont understand... then it's time to google the meaning.. then u can widen ur vocbulary mah...

twilight ar? i bought it.. but still need the will to read it... >.< alot of ppl said.. it's juz so-so but juz the hype and gals loved romance mah... juz the stricking moment of the movie i guess... u can read the gist of the story tru wikipedia ( damn detail )

my own collection... bout 200
plus my whole family collection i think more than 500 already.

I've got a huge collection...easily over a thousand i think..haha

i've got books all over my room, bookshelves are double stacked...

another huge bookshelf outside my room triple stacked and more old books kept in boxes in the storeroom when i ran out of space

once i move into my own place i'll make a library

I lost count, it's everywhere! more than 200 that's for sure..I even got 2 or 3 books of the same title, guess I just got crazy over the author and just buy it without thinking whether I already have it or not!!

wow... that's hardcore... having 2-3 of the same books... well u can always get rid of urs... by selling them at garage sales...

i hv no idea...
its all over the house...

I have 60+ like that... Story books la. Dowan count study books.. hehe

mine only 200++
but if including my dad n brother collection i think almost 1000
my house, in every room got bookcase except guess room n kitchen

hahaha, some ppl's mum keep a lot cooking books in the kitchen!
and toilets too!

i do the same as well. accidentally bought a few copies of the book by the same author;)

anyways, i voted for >500 since i don't exactly catalogue all my books but i can assure you i've got books lined up in the living room, outside my room, in my room, on my bedside table, in my hometown etc.

the bad thing is those in my hometown were 'attacked' by termites. almost cried but what else can i do. just burned them to ashes;)

now am looking forward to Kindle but sadly they still won't ship to M'sia via the new International Wireless thingy:(

I don't have any idea of how many books I have, but my book shelves are bursting at the seams now.



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Used to have less than 20, these few years it ballooned to about 300. Now I am curious, I will have to count them. For some reason, that send a frisson of excitement down my spine (what in the world?!) Think Uncle Scrooge with his pile of coins *snigger*

I lost track of some though, people borrowed it and plain didnt return them. I dont mind if I know they kept it nicely. But some lost it and then dont want to admit it. And since I pressed my favs on them, now I cant read them myself.

I have about 300++ books and keep increasing. Just like u Persephone, ppl borrow my books never return. Now, I charge whomever want to read my books. If they don't return the books, never mind cause then with their deposit money I can buy another copy

This post has been edited by Ctsukacheesecake: Nov 16 2009, 11:39 AM

Added 3 new bookshelves few months ago. Now i have more space for more books. One of my dreams is to have a mini library when i have my own place in the future. Right now I'm staying with my parents and sharing room with my sisters so it's not possible. I really have to start making a list of all the books i have, because i tend to forget what i have. Last month i accidentally bought 2 James Patterson's books of the same title

what i would give to have floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with books. i carry around a list of books i want to buy, to avoid buying same titles. also, i keep an online catalogue of my books, so that i can check online before i make the purchase.

man i have so many books that you could never count... even some the are previously my mom's and are already yellow colour..

Anybody wanna sell their books? PM me. ( Good condition only)

TQ!

mine is so old it's older than me.

haha, what kind of books are u looking for? better post in GS.

Comics (malay & english) -> 1,000+
Non-Fiction Novels -> 100+
Fiction Novels -> 300+
Magazines (all sorts including reader's digest, dengeki hobby or national geographic) -> 1,000+

All are mine alone, not including my mum's cook books, my brother's accounting books or my gf's chinese romance novels...

More than half are stored in boxes in the store-room...only those i foresee i have interest in reading them within the next 2 yrs are in my room's shelves...room too tiny to cramp all in...


And what's GS Section btw? Won't mind to get a few more non-fiction miliary related novels...

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Added on October 7, 2010, 3:37 pmOops, jst saw that GS stands for Garage Sales... Anyway, couldnt find anything related to military...so if anyone here's about to sell off their military non-fiction novel, jst drop me a PM...so long as i dont have it, chances are i would buy it from you, anywhere from WWII to current conflict....~

This post has been edited by ArmorFiend: Oct 7 2010, 03:37 PM

i'm not going to start counting all the books in my house. with 3 bookworms in it (myself included) there should be at least 500+. Not to mention we gave a lot of the older ones away because they took up space.

Wow....Never thought that most people has 200-500 books with them...
I read library book most of the time ....and I just started about 2 years ago ...so about 20 book for now : )

Not many, say about 100-200. That's only because I tend to be really 'picky' about what I'm gonna read...

I think I've got about~~ 2000+books. Well there's the textbooks,reference books..but my mums been a reader since like forever and she has like this amazing collection of books which we bought back in US during garage sales for like 25cents each. Mind you, they were pretty good books by John Grisham, Tolkien..yata yata yata. Now starting my own collection, muahahaha but not going nowhere much, very expensive books and the fact that I usually read a normal 600page book in 2 days, making me feel all like, 'what?? I'm done?'

Good question, I haven't count. I tend to fall in love with the bookcover too! Hehee.

that is insanely cheap!