how many novels do you own?

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curiosity is killing the cat, so how much novels do you YWS members own?
i counted mine, i think i own over 35 books, about twenty of them novels, but it increases every week or fortnight, and the collection is growing...
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Um...I've never actually counted...a lot, I'd think: while my cousins were asking for toys and gift cards for Christmas, I was asking for books. And whenever I really like a book I've gotten from the library, I'll go out and buy it, so...yeah. A lot. :D




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I really don't know. I lost bookshelf space a long time ago, so I've got some in boxes and under my bed... I would estimate over two hundred books, all in all, a good portion of them novels.




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Um.. oh lord. Over a hundred, I'd guess.. no, make that two hundred.

Yep.

At least. I'll have to get a few pictures of my bookcases to prove it. And yes, I have read every one of them, too.
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Um....lots....and lots...I collect books, so I have about 50 collectables, plus around 50 various YA books which I enjoy (e.g. Artemis Fowl etc) and then there are the classics (havent read them all yet, but I collect them when I see them, so that I can, hehe) of which I have around 100...or so...I have a complete bookshelf full, plus at least 5 boxes. Heh. **coughs** And I get more all the time.
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Of the books that are mine and that I actually read... probably pushing 300. If you include the books that are mine but didn't read, around 350. But if you include all the books in my house, it's probably a few thousand. My dad has a few books dating back to the 1700s, and the rest is really just what the Caldwell's have collected (and wrote) over the years.




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Of my own personal library, let me check my database, 620 books, but if you count all in my house probably around 800.

And like Mesh I have read everyone, at least once. I, too, have pictures of my old room which held all my books.
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Caligula's Launderette wrote:Of my own personal library, let me check my database, 620 books, but if you count all in my house probably around 800.

And like Mesh I have read everyone, at least once. I, too, have pictures of my old room which held all my books.


620 books! wow, that's pretty impressive. your room must look like a library. how many years of bying books does this pan over? let me guess, two, three...or maybe more?
i admire you for your devotion to literature...lol.
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I always thought I had hundreds of books but I only have about 50 or less. I don't tend to buy books anymore, I borrow from the library first before deciding to get my own copy.
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O_o

My bookcase is crammed, so I'm using my desk as a place to stuff books. Consiering that there's about five layers of books all crammed in ther, I'm not quite sure it would be good to answer that question...
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Well...

A long long long long time ago I ran out of room on my bookcases do now half the floor by my nightstand has been converted to a floorlevel book case... rows of books satcked up against the wall so they won't fall down. Hehe.

It's mainly old sci-fi and fantasy from when CJ Cherryh was my faovrite author, and there's a lot of Russian literature, Dostovevsky and Chekhov and Tolstoy (I want a book by Gogol but I can't seem to find it)... a lot of philosophy and Marcus Aurelius, a lot of Anthologies of Short Stories and of course, writing books. ^_^

I have the Art of War, too, in there somewhere, along with something on Bushido and The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, but lol, I can't seem to find them. o.O




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I have a lot, probably about forty or so, mostly novels, some guidebooks, a few text books, some handheld type stuff you could stick in your pocket.

It's great. Having to move them all sucked though.




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I suppose...four bookshelves full, though absolutely all novels or fiction - I've never counted. There are a couple dozen at least floating around wherever it is - either home or elsewhere.

But books are like people in that, once you know them, they can't be a number without perplexing. 0o
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hehe, I did a quick count, and of the ones out in my room, I have 350-400. That's not counting the ones I have under my bed and in storage, though most of those aren't novels...

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