Poll of the Day > How big is your personal library?

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Mine isn't very large, but I've been slowly adding to it. So far I've got:

Zombie Survival Guide
World War Z

Robinson Crusoe

Dragonsbane

Wheel of Time series - all 14 main series books + the prequel

Malazan Book of the Fallen series - first 9 books, just need the tenth

Chronicles of Thomas Covenenant series - books 1-3, 6-8, and 10, so still missing 3 from this series

So, a whopping 35 books. Been looking for the Wheel of TIme Companion book with no luck, but it's not a pressing issue, so I haven't just broken down and ordered it. Will also start gathering The Dark Tower series after I finish up collecting the Thomas Covenant ones. Can't think of any other books I'm interested in reading though, so that's about it for now. As for the actual reading part, I read the zombies books, Robinson Crusoe, Dragonsbane, and the Wheel of Time books. I started on the Malazan series and read the first book, but stopped partway into the second one. I do plan to pick it back up though. Just been debating between starting it again, or going for Thomas Covenant.
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About 100, all different genres.

I have like 60 books and I only read half of them
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Hmm. Hard to judge.

If we're including comics, it'd be easily over a thousand, possibly two thousand.

Just regular books/novels, though? Probably at least 60, not counting my girlfriend's almost-complete Stephen King collection.
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Roughly 0.06 Deltas.
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I'm not at home right now, but it is not huge, there are a few books I have bought several times over because I donate them to libraries or wear them out. If you include ebooks I have on my computer, probably a few hundred, but physical probably only about a hundred.
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30 games.
3 books.

Probably around 300 on shelves and another couple hundred in boxes because we ran out of shelf space. Hasn't been growing much lately though since we mostly have been buying ebooks.

White Wolf's Kindred of the East line.
Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.
Various encyclopedias of Witchcraft and Demonology
Various textbooks on Psychology with a focus on Criminology, including a handful I'm not supposed to have.
The near complete works of Poe and HP Lovecraft.
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing in trade-paperback
Dark Knight Returns
Cerebus Vol. 1 trade

Not all that big. I try to go digital.
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

White Wolf's Kindred of the East line.

Wasn't that book kinda racist?
I mean 90s White Wolf wasn't exactly good about it originally (the gypsy race being good at stealing being a big one) and I heard that book was extra racist.

shadowsword87 posted...

I heard that book was extra racist.

I don't know, I'm not oriental myself so I don't have the background to tell when it's being insensitive like using the word "oriental".
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I have no e reader/tablet, so my digital library is non existent. I do somewhat want a kindle paper white though.
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At least 60-80 books I think. 50 of which are Star Wars books and 20ish being eBooks.
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I got a few yearbooks, a bible and a bunch of old Game Informers and Tips & Tricks magazines.
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I have no idea but I actually have a library in my home. I inherited my great grandparents, grandparents, and parents books along with my own. Many are well over 100 years old.

My gaming library is very large also.

I if we include TPBs, I probably have 200~, otherwise it's around 80.
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do ebooks count?
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I have a pretty good amount, but nearly all of them are comics. I'd say something like 80 books.
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helIy posted...

do ebooks count?

Sure, just make the distinction between them and physical books.
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dragon504 posted...

helIy posted...

do ebooks count?

Sure, just make the distinction between them and physical books.

kk

1,284 ebooks
360+ physical books
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Probably around 100 books, mostly fiction and children's books as now I just use the library and read free PDFs online.

helIy posted...

360+ physical books

Wowza. How many book shelves you got? I kinda fantasize having one of those rooms dedicated to just books. Oddly enough I would prefer this over a gaming room.
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I have a large number of books. No less than 100. Probably closer to 200. They're all in a hallway cupboard though. I don't keep them out as I almost never read them anymore.

a couple, and i barely even have books on them. they're mostly all in storage.
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helIy posted...

a couple, and i barely even have books on them. they're mostly all in storage.

Ah okay. Would you want em on display on shelves if room permit? Part of me feel I should donate my physical books to my local library. Certain books I would reread occasionally, Lord of the Rings being one of them.
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I used to have something like 300 books as a kid, but I eventually decided to sell/donate a bunch of books I know I will never read again. Now I probably have like half that.

If I get on a huge reading kick I just pick something up at the library, and if I like it enough I will buy it later.
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1000+ It used to take up five 6 ft shelves. I was a bibliophile for awhile but now most of them are in 18 gallon bins in my basement. All of them have been read at least once.
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Currently I have I think two history books, three collections of comic books, two star wars reference books, and five novels.
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No idea. I have two four foot tall bookcases that are full and a third that's 2/3 full.

When I read a book it goes to the third one. For e-books I have probably around 100ish but have only read 25 or so.

a couple of hundreds.I am not really sure.


Also around 2k ebooks I got gifted by a friend once.
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I've never actually counted, but it has to be at least 500 although that includes some children's series like Spooksville, Goosebumps, Clue, etc, which I got when I was younger. A large part of that is just library book sales which I pick up a lot of stuff each year, although I also got into the habit of checking out used book stores, etc. There's also no rhyme or reason to how I store them.

Graphic novels are at maybe another 30. Manga maybe 50. Ebooks... well, ebooks don't really matter but I have tons of public domain ones on one of my other computers.

Granted, most years I only read 2-3 books so... it's a little out of balance.
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Is "personal" not a euphemism for porn?
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30-40 books. i rarely find new authors that i like
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Is "personal" not a euphemism for porn?

If it is, this is the first I've heard of it and you're the first I've heard it from.
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InfestedAdam posted...

helIy posted...

a couple, and i barely even have books on them. they're mostly all in storage.

Ah okay. Would you want em on display on shelves if room permit? Part of me feel I should donate my physical books to my local library. Certain books I would reread occasionally, Lord of the Rings being one of them.

i have room for them, it's just i don't really care about books for display. like, i rebought all my physical books digitally, if that's any indication.

an exception to that is my complete (so far) collection of hardback dresden files books. that shits on display.
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