how many books do you have?

landbeforetimelover · **on:** July 29, 2007, 07:56:51 PM

I probably only have around 400 books. I'm just guessing of course. How many do you have?

DarkHououmon · **Reply #1 on:** July 29, 2007, 08:06:09 PM

*Only* 400 books? That's probably more than we have, but I never counted.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2007, 09:09:33 PM

You'd be surprised. I thought I only had like 100 of them, but when I counted them, it came up to 439 or something like that.

Manny Cav · **Reply #3 on:** July 29, 2007, 09:27:43 PM

Disregarding magazines, players' guides, and instruction booklets, I came up with 6 books.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2007, 09:36:57 PM

Of the books I own, I've at least 10.

action9000 · **Reply #5 on:** July 29, 2007, 10:22:50 PM

Counting textbooks, maybe a dozen. Not counting textbooks...zero, as far as I know.

Where's the zero option on the poll?

Manny Cav · **Reply #6 on:** July 29, 2007, 10:25:06 PM

You're an admin, you shoehorn it in somehow.

Keni · **Reply #7 on:** July 29, 2007, 10:44:21 PM

I own a total of 10 books. But if you count mangas, then I own 30 books XD

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #8 on:** July 30, 2007, 02:38:13 AM

I don't understand how so many of you don't have a lot of books. They're not that expensive new and used they're even cheaper. I have only read about 15 of my books. I'm not a big reader and most of my books are well over 1000 pages. I only read to acquire information so I only needed those 15 or so books to attain the necessary knowledge that I required at the time.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #9 on:** July 30, 2007, 02:49:35 AM

A typical book costs around $14-$15, though I have seen some cheaper, and definitely some over $20, sometimes even $40. At least that's how it is around here. Books are pretty expensive for me, so I don't get them much. That and I rarely find a book that catches my interest. I never bought a book for logic, although I will try to buy an animal book for the pictures to help me with my drawings and to inspire some new characters and designs.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #10 on:** July 30, 2007, 03:05:17 AM

HOLY CRAPOLA! The max I ever spend on a new book is $6.95 and used it's $1-3. You must think that I was drunk when I made my last post. There's no way I'd be paying that much for a book!

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #11 on:** July 30, 2007, 03:06:03 AM

About 1000. I have a four ft. tall, 12 ft. long bookshelv I added to my apartment and its filled with books. Not to mention that my room is filled with them, as is the living room and my computer room (also one of the closets). That's not mentioning the books I left behind at my mom and dad's house.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #12 on:** July 30, 2007, 03:10:08 AM

The most I've spent on a book was over $20. The latest book I got was a dinosaur fact book, and it was on sale for, like, $5.

A thousand books? That's the most amount of books I've heard anyone say they've got.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #13 on:** July 30, 2007, 03:19:27 AM

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A thousand books? That's the most amount of books I've heard anyone say they've got

me too. What are ya, the biggest book worm in the world?

Malte279 · **Reply #14 on:** July 30, 2007, 04:55:30 AM

I never counted all of my books, but they are certainly more than 500. Many of them are nonfictions. Some of the books I bought for my interest in history are very old books which are no longer reprinted. The most expensive one I got was 80 Euros. Books are really something wonderful and mean more to me than just means of aquiring information. I am in the lucky situation of living in a region with many BIG libraries around as well as some institutes where you can study old print medias.

Manny Cav · **Reply #15 on:** July 30, 2007, 10:29:19 AM

There's probably more than the fore-mentioned 6 around my place. That's just my books. It's probably even less than that, but that's beside the point... in a way.

Malte279 · **Reply #16 on:** July 30, 2007, 10:44:03 AM

Just having books, no matter how many, is of little value though. I heard of people who buy whole shelfes full of books just for the looks of them. They buy those books without the remotest intention of ever opening them. There are even people who buy shelves with fake book spines so it looks as if they had all the classical literature standng on their shelves while in fact is is just a bit of cardboard with a picture of books spines on it. That is really pathetic!

Manny Cav · **Reply #17 on:** July 30, 2007, 10:50:15 AM

Quote from: Malte279,Jul 30 2007 on 09:44 AM

There are even people who buy shelves with fake book spines so it looks as if they had all the classical literature standng on their shelves while in fact is is just a bit of cardboard with a picture of books spines on it. That is really pathetic!

I've seen this, too. It's really stupid.

Teresa · **Reply #18 on:** July 30, 2007, 10:58:58 AM

i've got about 83. i had LOADS more when i was a kid but i had to sell most of them at a bootsale when we had to move house.

Flathead770 · **Reply #19 on:** July 30, 2007, 11:47:43 AM

i only have about 10-15 not including magizines. I'm not that big of a reader so thats why i have so few books.