Beyond Reality discussion

How many books do you own (physical, ebooks, audiobooks, or by the bookcase, however you prefer to count)?

Oh, that's both easy and difficult to answer.

Easy because I've made effort to keep my ebooks organized and grouped. Current count is 1945.
Please note that includes both Omnibus editions as well as individual short stories.

Its the other formats that cause difficultly.

Print, we've gotten rid of a number of our print books over the years as they've been replaced by ebooks with the print editions being donated The majority that we still own are packed in boxes in the garage. We do still have one bookcase for print books, but that's for books like science and math books (mathematical equations just don't do well in ebook) as well as art books, special editions, as well as comic trades (entire Sandman trade run, or the entire Calvin and Hobbes collection).

Audio is another difficulty since we've been buying audiobooks since the early 90s. So from audio cassettes to CDs to various forms of digital media.

Audible claims we have 587 audio books in our library.
Downpour claims 208 - which also reminds me I have a bunch of credits waiting to be used.

Then there are more that were either manually digitized/copied from audio CDs and cassettes (most of the cassette copies have been replaced with newer). The Books in Motion CDs which were just CDs with the mp3 files on them.

My guess is that we're at 800-1000 audiobooks.

As I age, I find the idea of minimalism more and more appealing. I've gotten so tired of having to take care of things, so many things.
However, that will never apply to books. :)

Its funny. Going through all of this brought up a memory of me as a kid. My bedroom had 4 pieces of furniture in it. Bed, a small bedside table, a small chest of drawers, and a cheap white plastic modular book case that were in all the rage in the 80s. One of those shelves contained my little row of books, primarily Trixie Belden at the time, but soon grew with Earthsea, Pern, and Dragonlance. I was so proud of that little collection.

I haven't changed. I like to look at my books. Sometimes I just scroll through my ebooks and get that similar warm feeling. So many old friends. So many new friends promising new adventures.

Let's just say "too many." But I am actively working on them, honestly. Once I finish the two long series (Animorphs and STToS) I'll be at probably less than fifty.

Btw, all physical. I do not own any digital books. Oh, wait, maybe one, a big anthology of Time Travel stories. Thanks for the reminder; I need to see if I can find it on my tablet and get to reading it.

This has been top of my mind for the last two weeks. We are getting ready to move, and I have SO many physical books. Four shelves of children’s books have been donated to a local church. About 500 books are headed for the Friends of the Library resale store next week. But I’m moving my entire fantasy/SciFi collection, cookbooks, travel books, and nature/field guides, another 800 or so. I just need to buy new bookshelves, since the new home doesn’t have built ins.

Oh gosh. I've got no idea. Physical books, 8 overflowing bookshelves full. E-books, several hundred.

I rarely buy books anymore for both space and financial reasons, but I'm quite attached to the ones I have and have no plans to get rid of them at the moment :)

Oh, fun question. So many locations to count up.

50 cook books, looking through them reminds me that I have a few to get rid of, I don't really like them and then I will have room for new ones!

86 crafting books, this only includes the actual books, not any magazines or small pattern books, or sewing patterns. Seems like I may have to update this Goodreads shelf, it is horribly out of date.

34 art books, mostly about painting and photography artists I like.

319 paper books, I donated about 500 books a few years ago to clear up some space in the book shelves, so now I only have the books I want to keep and the books I haven't read yet.

39 ebooks, I really only buy ebooks I can't get any other way or if they are free, so limited selection here. The library is my main source of ebooks.

383 audiobooks, I did not realize I had so many. I still need to read 178 of those, not sure how I ended up with this many?

And these are just my books, my sister also has some 400 gardening books and 350 paper books and a small vintage encyclopedia collection that takes up the rest of the shelves in the house.

We have about 3000 books of all kinds: hardcover, paperback, ebooks, & audio. My spreadsheet shows over 4000 but we have gotten rid of a lot (donated or sold to used book stores). I keep them in my spreadsheet so I don’t buy them again, but I mark them as “gone”.

By the bookcase (which excludes ebooks & audiobooks, obviously), we have 18 or 20 tall bookcases.

Oh dear, I have no idea. My Kindle says I have 605 items, some of which are samples, my Audible account says there’s 308. I have a total of 1055 unread books in various places and about 10 shelves of print books, which probably amount to a similar amount to the unread items!

Random wrote: "One of those shelves contained my little row of books, primarily Trixie Belden at the time, ."

I was a Trixie Belden reader too!