How many books do you own?

@Erin88 (348)
United States
September 17, 2008 6:26pm CST
Do you own many books or do you prefer to borrow them from people or the library?
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8 responses
• Philippines
18 Sep 08
I own a lot of paperbacks by different authors. Among them are Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, Dan Brown, Mitch Albom and Nicholas Sparks. I love the novels written by these authors. I think I have around 75 of them. Then I have my books from my online studies, most of them are related to Child Psychology. I think I have around 20 of them. Plus all the cookbooks. When I moved to my own home, I would probably make a library for these books. That way, I can preserve them. Have a great night!
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@mld4165 (65)
• United States
18 Sep 08
I own quite a few, in fact I'm not even sure how many are in the house. I read that having a house full of books was good for kids. We also visit the library on a regular basis. Matt
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
18 Sep 08
At one time I had over 800 hard covers...but had downsized by donating alot of them to libraries....now I keep about a hundred.......
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
17 Sep 08
I own many books that I have not paid for yet! I do borrow books from the library. Just only every blue moon or so..
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• Philippines
20 Sep 08
We have lots of books in the house, all of us in the family, likes to read. It varies from academic to fictional books. For me, I prefer to owned a book than to borrow books from other. But sometimes, we do borrow as well, and if its happen to be a great book, we will buy it, and add to our collection.
@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
18 Sep 08
Hi Erin, I have more than 300 books, and almost about 100 of them not read yet. We have these booksales almost every month; I can't resist them, and keep buying whenever I find any book to add to my collection. I seldom borrow books from people and never from the libraries. Our libraries here are simply hopeless- except for the British Council, and the Lincoln Centre, the rest of the libraries are not even worth visiting!
• United States
18 Sep 08
At last count i had over 300. Since then i have gotten rid of some and added new ones so i am not sure how many i have now. I don't usually like to borrow because if i really like it i hate giving it back.
@flance101 (137)
• Philippines
18 Sep 08
i prefer buying books than borrowing from the library or some people.