Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion

being a librarian, I was cataloging my personal library in a database I made long before I discovered Goodreads. At the end of each month, I like to tally up how many items I have in my library. And as of Jan. 31, 2010, I found I currently have exactly 4000 items in my collection. Not bad, huh? :-)

And that leaves me only 2487 items away from my goal of matching the number Thomas Jefferson donated to the Library of Congress. At my pace of acquisition, it should only take me about another six years. Hopefully by then I'll be able to afford a house so I'll have somewhere to put all these books, they sure won't all fit in my apartment. That is, unless I move into my downstair neighbor's place, which I might do by way of falling right through the floor due to the weight of bookcases. :-D

LOL, that is freaking amazing Joseph!!!!

I think that is most certainly brag worthy information!

Okay, we need an icon with its jaw on the floor. That's a big WOW Joseph!!!

That's really cool =D

I am so jealous.

Congrats! That is impressive. Have you read all of them??

Christine wrote: "Congrats! That is impressive. Have you read all of them??"

I'm afraid not. I'd say about one third of my collection is nonfiction, reference stuff you don't really read cover to cover. The rest of my collection is fiction, one third read and one third unread. I'm just as much a collector as a reader.