How many books do you have in your home library?

I had a beautiful library in my house. I had an old fashion brick Victorian hose with a wrap around porch and a balcony on top and a wonderful library with book shelves from ceiling to floor. My ex got all the books in the divorce. I miss them even after all these years. I spent hours in there reading the greats!

I can't tell you an exact number, either, as it's quite a few. And, I've had to give or sell a ton of them off because I just don't use them. It seems like once I buy a book, I don't read them because I feel like I can read them anytime I want as there's no due date or anything. So, I never read them. I now buy mostly reference books and cookbooks because I actually use those. I rarely buy fiction because they sit on the shelf forever. If I want to read fiction, I get a book out of the library because I know I will either read them or take them back by the due date.

I have my own library at home.
I think I have around 100 books.
Some of them,I have been reading.
But some of them are new.
I really love to read.I have heard,that a really good book,can be a better friend than a human being

Just a month ago, I put so many books in the boxes and in our stockroom! I rearranged my small library as my daughter's drafting room/study room. She is graduating in interior design and she needs space to do her thesis. I was able to fill 20 big boxes full of books! I am a voracious reader and I love books. I'd rather buy books than makeup or bags! Maybe, after she graduates, I can rearrnge again our small library complete with my rocking chair!

We have well into the thousands. We recently built in bookshelves that cover 3/4 of the wallspace in one of our rooms, and we've still got books in boxes. I need to go through and see if there are any we aren't interested in anymore, but that'll be a huge task! We have a lot of textbooks which are good for years and years, some longer than that, before they need replacing. I love books!

I am currently in the midst of arranging my "library".

In April of this year, I moved into a house from a one-bedroom apartment. During my packing up, I estimated that I had approximately 5,500 books. The bulk of my move was boxes of books.

As I was getting the yard and the house livable ... at least, livable for me ... it's only been since last week that I have started opening those boxes and putting some of the books on shelves.

Now I have the time and the inclination to just pull out all my "friends", remembering the good read, finding just the right spot for each one, and maybe re-reading one, or two, or ... it really slows down the unpacking when I'm stopping to re-read an old friend.

I have around a hundred books on various subjects ranging from History to Science, Sociology, and of course, fiction.
I don't read most of them except fiction, and Sociology sometimes (my favourite that I always read when I do is Masters of Sociological Thought. I have Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children, Shalimar the Clown, The Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, scores of short story collections, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpretation of Maladies, and a few thrillers (I dispense with most of them).

I may have about that number also. I have sold some of mine over the years but it seems like i am always accumulating new ones to take their place. I am expecting another one from Amazon just this week. I to arrange mine just in an order that makes sense like tallest to smallest or something like that. I think arranging by subject matter might be a better idea but I dont know what that would look like on the shelf.

i tend not to buy a lot of current books, yet i do have quite a few very old books in my library. i have collected old books for quite awhile and have lots that i like to check into once in awhile.

I probably have between 500 and 1000 books. I have a 9 x 9 built in book shelf in my library where I keep all of the non-fiction books, mostly about WWII. My fiction is all up in the attic on 6 bookshelves. I have read about 75% of them but am always picking up more so that when I retire, I won't run oout of reading material.