Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion

hi,
i just found your group this morning. i love books!!! can't seem to pass up a bargain or when one of the authors i really like has a new book out. my shelves are packed with stuff i have read and more stuff that i have waiting. i also got a kindle in november and have over 800 books on there.
i would say that i am an addict. lol
ellen

Wow, yes, you are definately addicted. I just got a Kindle for Christmas and sadly I only have 6 books on there right now. However, I have almost 300 books in my room and several hundered more in my parents living room book shelves and on the stairs leading to my bed room. I have way more books that I own that I havn't read than I have kept and read :) I think it is a normal book addict thing. I just joined this group too a couple days ago. I was on amazon one night commenting on a book review that I just read and then the woman told me about Goodreads! I love it! So I just became a member a few days ago too. I am liking it more and more each day.

I just discovered this group. Where have you been all my life, book addict group?? I'm so glad I'm not alone lol!!

Lacie wrote: "I just discovered this group. Where have you been all my life, book addict group?? I'm so glad I'm not alone lol!!"

I know! It feels great doesn't it? I thought I was alone forever too. So glad I found this group and I am glad I met the girl on amazon who told me about this website. She is a life saver.

It is such a relief to know it is not just me. I can't stop either, total addiction. My TBR pile will last me years already and I still keep buying.

I keep doing the same thing too, lol. I know I will never read all the books I buy, but I still hope I will. I just need to say away from the free book stands! Also I in my town we had only one book store and it just went out of business last month. In a way I am very sad, but in a way I am happy to because I don't feel the need to go to the next town to buy books. However, I guess it is not really a good thing because I just got a kindle for Christmas and it is way too easy to buy books on there. Can't win.

I just joined too. I have tons of books read and to read falling off of my shelves. After I tried selling some (which about killed me) I still had about 600. I bought a Nook about a year ago to save space and it only made my buying problem worse! I have almost 500 ebooks on it so far, another 500 on my ebook wishlist and another 500 on my physical booklist. I don't even know when I will get time to read all this! lol. But seriously, never going to have time.

Hello everyone,
Thank you Kerra for inviting me! I always liked books, and then...my first job was in a book store!!! You can imagine the fun! I was living with my parents and I didn't have to pay rent or anything...A considerable part of my salary would go on books!The other considerable part on cosmetics, creams, perfums etc.
Now I'm married, and for the last 4 years I couldn't find a job in VA where we moved from Ca for my husband's job. I had time to fulfill my wown dream - I wrote a book myself! If anyone is interested:
The Girl of Dracula
The following link will take you to the book's page on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/The-Girl-of-Dra...
Thank you so much and best wishes to everyone!
Dorina

I just recently joined this group also! I'm addicted to buying books & reading them. I was never much a reader under just last year. Which is crazy because I'm crazy for buying soo many books :)

I just found this group too and I must say I am truly addicted to buying and getting books. I go on ebay and just buy books cheap to have books. Of course I read them, but I love collecting them. I also work a part time job at a library. Working at the library means we get first dibs on any donations...yay I take home books daily. Right now I am on a streak of three books a day. I want to stop, but then I think I love it too much and it's not hurting anything!!!

I just got my first Nook so now I'm compiling books on that. Haven't quite figured it all out yet, but I do love being able to buy books from my living room. :)

Dorina wrote: "Hello everyone,
Thank you Kerra for inviting me! I always liked books, and then...my first job was in a book store!!! You can imagine the fun! I was living with my parents and I didn't have to pay..."

Wow, my first job was at a bookstore too and I didn't have to pay bills either. I'd get my paycheck and would just give it right back! lol Glad I am not the only one!

New to this group and wanted to say hello! SO glad to know that there are other "addicts" out there like myself! I get SO excited when I am in a bookstore and often come out of the library with 15 books per check-out! They allow up to 100 books per checkout, so I'm slowly working my way up to that goal ;D Anyway, nice to meet everyone and thank you for having me!

Hello, I have just joined yesterday. I'm from Amsterdam, the Netherlands and I'm a second hand book addict. Most of the books I own at home is from the used book market, other people's garage sale, Bookmooch or bought used from the internet.

Nice to have found you guys!

Hi people, I'm tayto form Ireland and just joined this group recently. I'm tayto and I'm an addict! :p
I have a compulsion to buy books, I just can't help it. I have so many books on my shelves it takes me ages to pick what to read next.
Hopefully I can contribute something useful to this group. Happy reading all!

I'm new too!

My husband and I are bibliophiles. We devoted the largest bedroom in our house (not counting the master) to a library. My husband built floor to ceiling bookshelves into the longest wall. The shelf is about 8.5 feet tall and 15 feet long and VERY deep. His collection is over 1000 books (many military non-fiction as he is a military historian and former soldier). This leaves much less space for my books and I get irate when I find one of his books on my shelves! After we filled those shelves twice over (they're deep enough to hold two rows of books) we filled the two floor to ceiling paperback shelves he built for the other wall. Now we don't know where to put the books that we can't stop buying. My mom says just to donate or sell some. Yeah right. I don't part with my books. I'll donate almost any other possession but my books are my books! Non-readers just don't understand us, do they?

OK, end rant,

Hi all!!

Kate

tayto..isn't that a name of a chip/crisp? I don't mean this in an offensive way but i just thought it rang a bell..if i am wrong please correct me.

Laura wrote: "tayto..isn't that a name of a chip/crisp? I don't mean this in an offensive way but i just thought it rang a bell..if i am wrong please correct me."

Yep!

Greetings everyone! Just joined Goodreads and discovered this group this morning... I am a huge book buyer I go to the bookstore intending on buying only one but we know how that goes...before you know it I have purchased far more...I am a bit "old school" in the fact that I love the feel and smell of books no Kindle for this little lady...
Happy Page turning everyone :)

Well hello fellow book buying addicts. I'm 15 years old but already I have felt I have a addiction to buy books. When I go shopping I have a pact I made with myself to 'never buy books that you don't already want' but each time I go I get drawn into the irrepressible forces the books hold. I imagine this is what an AA meeting feels like.

Dorina wrote: "Hello everyone,
Thank you Kerra for inviting me! I always liked books, and then...my first job was in a book store!!! You can imagine the fun! I was living with my parents and I didn't have to pay..."

Most welcome for the invite! glad you like it and hope a lot of the members will read your book. You got to work in a book store! Lucky dog you :) I have always wanted to work in a book store or a library, but there aren't many book stores around here. Still looking and hoping though, even if it doesn't pay much at least I will love doing it :)

Susan wrote: "I just got my first Nook so now I'm compiling books on that. Haven't quite figured it all out yet, but I do love being able to buy books from my living room. :)"

Yes, that is a lovely thing isn't it :) I like it alot too. However, it does just add to being more addicted, but oh well, I don't believe it is killing any of us :)

Tayto wrote: "Hi people, I'm tayto form Ireland and just joined this group recently. I'm tayto and I'm an addict! :p
I have a compulsion to buy books, I just can't help it. I have so many books on my shelves it..."

I have a hard time picking out which book I will read next too from my shelves! It is hard. However, I usually try to read books in the order that I buy them in (if I can keep track of it lol) it just seems to be easier that way sometimes. Hey, it is just as much fun to choose a book to read from your book shelf as it is picking one to read from a library or a book store.

Happy reading too!

Whilst I've always known that other bibliophiles exist, it's lovely to actually find you all! I get grumpy if I don't have a book in the house that I haven't yet read and when you've bought them rather than borrowed from the library it doen't matter if you drop them in the bath. I also speed read and often read a book a day, does anyone else?

Victoria wrote: "I also speed read and often read a book a day, does anyone else?..."

Oh yes, I often go through a book a day and every so often go through up to three a weekend.

Just want to say hello and welcome to all the new joiners. When I created this group, I never imagined the numbers of members we would get up to. It's so nice to know we are not alone. :-)

Good morning from Southern California (near Palm Springs).
I am retired and have my retirement library all set. Of course that doesn't mean I will stop adding to the TBR any time soon.
Looking forward to great discussions.

Hi all from Ireland, good to see there are others like me out there. :)

In my case the book buying addiction is a hereditary condition, my mum has it (at the last count she's amassed an astonishing 5000+ books)and I have it worse... I live in Dublin, VERY close to Hodges Figgis, 4 floors full of books... needless to say I pretty much live there. Since the dawn of time (or as others call it: 'childhood') I have never been able to walk into a bookshop and leave without buying at least 1 book. My flat is overflowing with books, they're everywhere: on the shelves, on the tables, lining up the walls of my bedroom, in boxes, in the attic, on the floor. My fiancé, who incidentally likes to read as well, thinks I'm mad because whenever I leave the flat, go for a walk, buy groceries I seem to come back with that oh so familiar green paper bag full of new books... And I can't part with the ones I already have either. Even if I hated every page of it, even if I know I will never, ever read it again, I can't give a book I own away...

I am an addict and I hope I'll never stop being one :) Although chances are I will probably die an untimely death burried under an avalanche of books, it'll be worth it :)

HI all new to this group :D
i feel it fits me like a glove i have very little self control when it comes to books they are all so new and shinny and i just need them all :D
I love reading and collecting books and it often gets in the way of other things ..work, study ,going to uni, saving for over seas trip
i have never thrown out or given a book away even if i don't like it, i love them all in their own ways
its a habit thats keeping me poor but very happy :D

If you have to be an addict, this is a great place to start. Johnny Flora , author of "The Spell of Zalanon" and soon to be released "Wake Co."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1432...

Hello - nice to meet you all!

I'm Louise, I'm Danish, I've had to make a database over my books, so I won't buy anything I already have, I have more than 1600 books - 800 or so of which I haven't read (working as a bookseller for 6 years DIDN'T help... :-)
I'm right now refusing to ever get an e-bookreader/kindle (although I'll admit its smart for nonfiction or getting a book quickly), as I love looking at, touching and browsing through the books of my own small library.
My husband still talks about the time when we went to the U.S. and there was a book sale in Boston, and we had to get an extra suitcase for all the books I bought when we flew back to Denmark...

Louise wrote: "Hello - nice to meet you all!

I'm Louise, I'm Danish, I've had to make a database over my books, so I won't buy anything I already have, I have more than 1600 books - 800 or so of which I haven'..."

Louise, you're a woman after my own heart. I've been playing with the idea of buying an e-book reader of some sort for a while but I just like books too much to give them up; made of paper, printed, space-stealing, old-fashion books :) Plus you can't smell an e-book ;) (please someone tell me I'm not the only person who finds the smell of a new book intoxicating)

Hi, my name is Jim and I'm an addict :) (people shant: Hello Jim) at this moment I own 280 books, most books I have read or am going to read but some others I only bought for my collection, like two books about the Dutch Republic in 1600-1700 which are printed in 1884, and how about a 20 series of books about Holland in the Second World War(I live in The Netherlands, so that makes sense)
Like some others in this group I can't go by a flee market or something like that and don't buy any books, it is just impossible for me, and I really love this event in Holland we call the "Boekenfestijn"(Bookfest) where you can buy books who aren't in the store anymore mostly due to a misprint or something you don't even noticed, the fun part is that they sell the books for like 3-15 Euro's, so last year(2010) I bought 30 books for 88 Euro's and last januari I was on a budget(stupid economy crisis) and I bought 16 books voor 60 Euro's, so in short I am a addict and proud of it!!!!!

No Joanna, you are not the only one who loves the smell of books ;-)

I also love the smell of books, especially old ones

Melanie wrote: "HI all new to this group :D
i feel it fits me like a glove i have very little self control when it comes to books they are all so new and shinny and i just need them all :D
I love reading and colle..."

Ooo, hello there :P

Laura wrote: "Melanie wrote: "HI all new to this group :D
i feel it fits me like a glove i have very little self control when it comes to books they are all so new and shinny and i just need them all :D
I love r..."

fansy seeing you here :p

Hello, I'm Mackenzi, I just found this group and I can't believe so many other people love to just buy up books. It's so great! This is the best group ever.

I love having a bunch of new books, it's just exciting to have something completely different waiting there for me. I think the anticipation is sometimes better than actually reading (of course the best books are the exceptions). I just hate the idea of borrowing books- having it in my hands, I want it to be mine forever, to go with the rest of them. I can't give it back. I had to quit the library scene because I would run up late charges of $60+ for only one book.
My own collection is small right now, I finally got out of my parent's house and got a job, though, so I will have more space and money for my books to grow. :)

No Joanna you aren't alone, I love the smell of books, and the feel, and just having a large number of them on my shelves. No Kindle for me!

Melanie wrote: "fansy seeing you here :p ."

XD
It's a very fitting place to be :p

Hi, I'm Raindog... I hopped from buying 6 books on Amazon to the Goodreads group page to see BBAA as the top featured group... fate slapping me in the face, right? So, I joined.

I love it. The fact I am not alone is a relief. Why is it that when I go into a bookshop and tell myself just one, just one only. Then I see a three for the price of two offer, and then I find one more and end up with six. Its not as though I don't already have a big pile of unread ones at home either, almost 300 at the last count. That is about eight years reading for me. I suppose it is a mild addiction.

Phil,
I know!! Curses Booksamillion and their special promotions. I can rarely go in there anymore without buying six books because of their buy 2 get 3rd 1/2 off!!!

I joined only a minute ago as well. I have been a bookworm since my early teens, I just love to buy and read them, and look at them. I've been trying to buy a little less actually, but I'm not sure for how long I'll be able to do that. Books are my one and only addiction. Borrowing them is ok, but there's nothing like having your own.

Amen Serenella!!! I love, love, LOVE to re-read the good ones over and over. I have become very picky about who I lend to because there are some great ones that I used to own that have gotten borrowed and I never get back!!! GRRRR!!!!

Heidi wrote: "Amen Serenella!!! I love, love, LOVE to re-read the good ones over and over. I have become very picky about who I lend to because there are some great ones that I used to own that have gotten borro..."

Exactly! Sometimes I'm forced to donate a few to make room for more, so I donate the ones I don't think I'll want to re-read. I hate to part with my books.

I don't mind parting with the bad ones, but the above average - or the authors I want to have everything from - I keep :)

Raindog wrote: "Hi, I'm Raindog... I hopped from buying 6 books on Amazon to the Goodreads group page to see BBAA as the top featured group... fate slapping me in the face, right? So, I joined."

Top featured?!? Really? Wow! :-)

My daughter is worse, We can't stuff another book into our library so we just leave the rest of our collection at Barnes and Nobles. She goes and sits there everyday

Hello to everyone in here, I just going this group the other day, but just stumbeled upon this introduction thread today.

I am a huge book addict, I've been reading books as far back as I can remember, I've had freinds and family both give me a hard time stating that I must have been born with a book in my hands :).

If I'm not at home, I can normaly be found working at the local used book store, or hiding in the rows over at B&N.

Look foward to talking to some of you in here.

Hi, I'm Leslie - a writer, an ex lit prof and an avid buyer of books for as long as I can remember.... There's something so wonderfully comforting about looking at my wall of books, I don't think I'll ever be able to give up my addiction to books, as physical objects, even if I do break down and buy an e-reader!
I'm currently finishing writing my first book, THE READING LIST: LITERATURE, LOVE, AND BACK AGAIN, and blogging from time to time about my writing process at www.the-reading-list.com It's a memoir about an exhausted English professor who leaves her job in academia to return home to her parents, and tries to get closer to her retired father (who has his own crisis to deal with) by creating a reading list of important books for the two of them to discuss.

Hi, I'm Andrew and...and...*cough*...I, uh...I guess I'm a book buying addict.

I have had library cards in every city I've ever lived in and used them almost exclusively for music scores and recordings. I know there are books there too, I really do, but it just runs so counter to my entire being to borrow a book when I can own it. I work in the arts and therefore move around a lot, and every time I move I have to cull the herd a bit, which always feels somewhat like picking which children I am ready to abandon. A few years ago, when I lived in Miami, my ex-wife and I had a bedbug infestation. She forced me to throw away almost all of my books in an attempt to rid ourselves of the pests. Even though I knew in my head that it was for the best, my heart simply couldn't accept it. Especially since they had to go in the trash - I couldn't even give them away to a loving home!

I recently self-published my first novel, and did it exclusively as an e-book for various reasons. My only regret about the decision is that I won't have a physical paper-and-ink copy to hold in my hands.