How many physical books do you own right now?
>>8157742
1,225.
I've got three more coming in the mail in a couple of hours.
>>8157742
one bookshelf of fiction and another of textbooks at my house.
another three bookshelves worth of fiction boxed up at my mom's boyfriends house.
~100 books
>>8157742
>my mom's boyfriends
cu...
>>8157742
Around 200
>>8157750
And just ordered seven more..
>>8157742
about 350-400, my kindle stopped my acquisitions about 5 years ago. \
>>8157742
about 2-3 hundreds
A few shy of 300, I think.
Around 290 or so.
>>8157742
close to 400. Mostly unread but I dont mind. I like having choices. It does make my room look and feel like ass. The mold and dust can be a bit overwhelming.
>>8157899
Why do you have mold and dust? I have a similar number of books in a small room with no mold/dust problems. You just sound like a dirty person.
Man i'm probably around 400 at this point
I just went out to a half price books near me for giggles yesterday and found some glorious NYRBs i couldn't just leave
More than 300, and that's not counting the short stories anthologies, comic books and very small poetry booklets.
>>8157742
The Holy Bible (Arabic)
Glossary of Biblical Theology (Arabic)
Quran (Arabic)
LENIN: Selected Works
Ulysses - James Joyce
A Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man - James Joyce
A Line In The Sand - James Barr
Pity the Nation - Robert Fisk
Old Testament (Arabic)
The Fatima Message - Sister Lucy of Fatima
a total of 10 books
>>8157931
Why wouldn't you count anthologies? Do you not keep them on your shelves?
>>8157944
Nope, there's in a pile for anthologies and books I can't put anywhere. Some anthologies are very specific and I can't fit them anywher else. I think of anthologies as long magazines that gives you recommendations on your next reading, nothing more, and magazines aren't books.
A little over 100. I've read about a 1/3rd of them. I'd like to read about half or even 3/4 before I buy more.
>>8157911
>I just went out to a half price books near me for giggles yesterday and found some glorious NYRBs i couldn't just leave
The hustle never ends bro.
250 or so
I have a three shelf bookshelf and a box of books I bought in a depression haze.
I would be so uneffected by any money I make that I would spend them on fifty cent used books.
At least now without that stressful part, i'll have time to read these war memorial books and romance novels.
Around 60 i still have to read three of them
Around 130 books
>>8157750
The fuck do you keep them all?
>not having a multigenerational library so vast that it has opened pocket dimensions for extra storage
>>8158061
Are you asking why or where?
>>8157941
gtfo
>>8158061
Mostly along the back wall of the living room.
>>8158103
>tfw functionally illiterate parents
>>8158111
A good third of the shelves are shitty detective novels and mindnumbingly boring realist fiction, not even worth speedreading through 40 pages of this tripe.
>>8158149
Which of the detective series do you think are shitty? Pic is all my mystery & crime there; the only especially bad ones are Braun. Simenon is mediocre so far imo, but I've only got one from him.
I accept the realism bit. I've got nearly a bookcase full of early 20th century Japanese realism there.
>>8157992
Look how gooooood these suckers are though
Excited about that Gass big time
>>8158180
I got those same ones from HPB a couple of weeks back.
>>8158111
This is the most pleasant set of shelves I've seen in a while. Can't see much of the content but it looks somewhat organized, not obsessively so like other shelves I've seen. Cozy area that gets natural light, cool gadgets on top. You just need a futon or something. 8/10 would invade your reading area.
>>8158185
Thanks, anon! You can see the titles a bit easier in this one.
It's actually pretty precisely organized (barring the manga and children's books on the top half of the middle shelf, which I just scooted there for the picture)--by country of author's origin, then chronologically by author year of birth. That might count as "obsessively so."
>>8158180
>excited about books just because of muh cover muh publisher
kill yourself
>>8158203
>telling people to kill themselves over this shit
Lighten up, Francis.
>>8157801
Is this actually true?
>>8158203
Yeah, i am excited about critically acclaimed books presented well with great introductions
Most people who like things are
23. I was homeless for a time and lost my collection as a consequence. I'm recently housed and am starting a new one, which I hope to keep indefinitely. It hurt to lose those books desu
>>8158180
lol tahib bin sahib and lalala salami
>>8158359
Oh anon, i feel so bad for you, how many books did you lost?
>>8158111
Have you read them all, anon? How much did it take you to read everything?
The one and only
>>8158203
good packaging is there to be admired.
nyrb gives me boners.
>>8158517
~70%, I started a little over six years ago on serious literature. Coincided with finding /lit/!
I will probably move abroad for an indeterminate amount of time.. And I really feel like shit these days because I have about 300 books and a whole collection of a Jesuit magazine from the 1930's till now that I can't take with me. It's like I'm honeslty leaving behind a relative.
25. I had to start over from around 140 before the rejects in my downstairs apartment had their dinner catch on fire and destroy half the complex. Happened a month ago. AMy life sucks.
>>8158111
>shameless display of comic collection right in dead center
>Artemis fowl at children's-eye-level
>those Murakamis
hell yeah motherfucker
>>8158111
love this board
655
>>8158524
Are those solar panels on the left? Neato.
I threw all my books in the trash so I have zero.
Best thing I've done since ditching my ex.
Would recommend.
None. I use my university library because i'm not a materialistic cuck.
>>8158103
I recently befriended a literary critic whose father is/was a college professor. Apparently my friend didn't have to buy a single book until he was ~25 because his dad already owned everything he needed
>>8157742
Around 1100?
>mfw they're all stacked in the bedroom
>>8159927
that kind of thing sucks as much as it is cool to brag about, desu
>not castrating your father by buying a better print of Ulysses
book collections are for faggots. unless you're an older person in a home you're not going to leave with nice furniture. you think your little bookshelf in your mom's basement holds anything that you're gonna own when your 45? no? So why keep it?
>>8159945
Why would you leave your home? Where would you go? What are you even talking about?
A little under 200/lit/ would probably throw a hissy fit if they saw them, though
None, I sold all of them to second hand shops after I realized that they just take up space and I get the same information in digital format.
>>8157742
+100-150 paperbacks, I'd guess
+a few hardcovers where it counts (Plato's complete works, norton anthology of theory & criticism, etc)
+kindle paperwhite
63.
I bought 80% of them used though.
>>8159945
Why would I throw something away which I paid money for?
>>8160620
Do you also keep your underwear from 5years ago?
>>8160624
If it's functional then yes? Usually the waistband breaks down in 2 years though so it becomes useless and I dispose of them.
>>8160658
Lol what the fuck are you poor?
>>8160889
Not him but I have sweaters and pants that are 6 years old and in perfect condition since I hardly wear them and they still fit me.
>>8160892
Why are you so poor then?
>>8159901
grow up
>>8159945
What counts as an older person? I didn't even start collecting books until I had moved out. Which was nearly a decade ago.
>>8159901
>unless you're an older person in a home you're not going to leave
You understand that you can just pack your books and take them with you as you move from place to place, right?
>holds anything that you're gonna own when your 45?
Of course it does. But then my taste is far better than yours.
>>8157742
about 350 in my tiny ass room. Took my bed out to add an extra book shelf last weekend
>>8161560
Stay poor lol.
>>8161431
Pics, anon. If you don't have a bed in it, does that mean it's a dedicated library room now? Since it can't be a bedroom.
>>8161570
stay wasteful wageshit lmao
"Hey Dad can I get a PS4 for my birthday like my friend Jack has got so we can play together online he's my best friend can I can I can I"
"NO son. You know that we're going to have to restock on our underwear selections soon. See, Jack's parents are probably poor, and not like us, and I'll bet you a dollar that if we went over to his house right now he'd be wearing some boxers that are at least two months old and all washed-out."
"..."
"Hey, you know what we'll do... I'll let you pick out your own underwear, OK?"
>>8158111
At first i only saw the anime and i was gonna ask if this was a joke, then i found IJ thats how i knew it was real.
>>8161599
>having to pick between underwear and PS4
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>>8161605
>having to buy both in order not to appear poor
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>>8161614
Posterior Analytics by Your Dad's Cock lol
no wonder he likes you having holes in your underpants lol
looool
>>8157742
Roughly 150kg
idk maybe 100
>>8161603
Haha, the manga are usually in the bedroom, not out on display. Usually those three shelves haveStar Wars Legoon them.
>>8157742
last count, i was around 200. probably around 215 now
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