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do your homes have many books?
Topic Started: May 12 2006, 10:41 AM (504 Views)
bachophile
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LWpianistin's made me ponder this.

like i said, im addicted to books and diva deb confirmed and im sure others here r avid readers.

so what do u think of people who dont read?

when i walk into people's homes, i gravitate naturally to bookshelves. u can tell alot about a home this way.

and when i walk into a home devoid of books, then i feel odd. i just cant imagine living that way, seems so naked.

im a firm believer in floor to ceiling shelves stuffed like a library.

do your homes have many books?
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Nina
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Yep. Book management takes up a significant part of our lives... cleaning them, storing, them, finding them, organizing them, packing them up when we move, blah blah blah.

My biggest problem (besides the fact that I buy too many books) is that I can never bear to give any of them up. We've bought houses strictly because they had a lot of nice built-in bookcases! :silly:

True confession time: We have "public" bookcases (where we put our classy books) as contrasted with our "private" bookshelves in the bedroom. The private bedroom bookshelves do not contain titillating stuff, as you all undoubtedly are hoping. They just contain the lesser stuff that we all read as well-- murder mysteries, celebrity biographies, etc. :ph43r:
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LWpianistin
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all of my family are avid readers, and my mom CANNOT throw books away. in our old house we had two floor-to-ceiling shelving units that were FULL of books. my mom recently moved, and lot of them are in boxes. :( when i meet someone who doesn't read anything beyond magazines, i feel sorry for them. like my roommate/best friend. she doesn't read much, and i don't understand why. reading is SO much better than tv and movies!
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Dewey
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Tons. We're buried in books. Every home should be.
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LWpianistin
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Dewey
May 12 2006, 10:54 AM
Tons. We're buried in books. Every home should be.

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Aqua Letifer
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I don't have too many. Just slightly more than a 3-column bookshelf. What I plan to do, once I have the money to do it, is go out and buy all the books I've read. Kind of like a tangible record of what all I've read. Also have a pretty long "should read" list, so I need to get on that, too.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Christopher T
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I have many books - but honestly I wish I didn't. They are REALLY bad for allergies.
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bachophile
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AL u r still young. my library is collected over many years.

i think i spent lifetime more on books then any other commodity.
"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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u want pictures? more than a thousand easily.
it behooves me to behold
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justme
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apple
May 12 2006, 03:15 PM
u want pictures? more than a thousand easily.

ditto

I love to read. I also love to re-read books. I'd feel very alone without my books. I love the STBXX, and I love my kids but my books are very dear to me. I used to love sharing them but now I don't. Too many people don't return them. Also, some people say they're going to read them and then don't. Their loss.

The first place I gravitate to (without being too intrusive) when entering someone's home that I haven't visited before is their bookshelves. I don't care whether they're hardbacks or paperbacks, I love to check out their books.
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LWpianistin
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justme
May 12 2006, 11:39 AM
apple
May 12 2006, 03:15 PM
u want pictures?  more than a thousand easily.

ditto


The first place I gravitate to (without being too intrusive) when entering someone's home that I haven't visited before is their bookshelves. I don't care whether they're hardbacks or paperbacks, I love to check out their books.

yeah. i always like to see what other people read, too.

my family's book collection is a collaboration of my own books, my brother's, and my parents'. even if i divided them by the two houses, there are still about 700 in each. my grandmother has the whole third floor of their house buried in books. a lot are from old friends, some dating back to the early 1800s. my family has a knack for collecting odds and ends, but especially books.
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big al
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Don't get me started. I've bought bookshelves, built bookshelves and stacked smaller books two deep on some shelves, and I'm still buying more. I'd be afraid to count them.

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Optimistic
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This group of ignorami? Readers? Who'da thunk? :nerd:

I've got books, but not a really crazy amount of them. I usually don't buy unless I've already read it- though I do have a bunch that I've picked up cheap at the used bookstore, or that have been given by friends, that are waiting to be read.

I tend to seek out the album collection before the book collection when visiting someone, but both are fun to raid!
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John D'Oh
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Too many books. My current wife is the fastest reader I've ever known, and gets through them with a brutal efficiency very reminiscent of the German war machine. I'm no slouch myself, but I don't read as many as I used to before the kids arrived. Since we've downsized our residential space allowance (moved into a smaller house) we have a basement and a summer room both full of bookshelves, which are in turn full of books. My bedside table is littered with them, and there's a few in the khazi, which is the only place I can guarantee a bit of peace and quiet.
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I love my books.. but if I keep them a few years and they are not re-read, I give a lot of them away. I love them but this year, while I am home, I have really been obsessed with decluttering our home. No clothing may be brought in without getting rid of others. Magazines are gone after read, with a couople exceptions. Since I cook, Janet was amazed to see how much stuff I got riud of in the kitchen to make everything fit COMFORTABLY.. every room in the house is looking better. Sadly books fall into that category as well.
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sue
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Oh gosh, so many. They're everywhere. I love books. I love reading about books. :P
I have a really hard time getting rid of any of them, and I keep bringing more home. I too, like seeing what other people have on their bookshelves; it says so much. I have a lot of older books that I couldn't be without....they're my history. Some of them are like old friends.
Online book ordering is my downfall, it's so easy.
I spend waaaay too much time in bookstores, new and used.

I have a problem. :ph43r:
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LWpianistin
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sue
May 12 2006, 12:32 PM
I love books. I love reading about books. :P

my dad has a book titled something like "How to Read a Book". i actually started reading a few years ago, and thought it was pretty funny. so ironic.....
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Bernard
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"Do your homes have many books?"

I only have one home and it has many books.

I wish I had more time for reading these days. Nothing like a really good novel.

I like this quote of Mark Twain's:

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
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I have a library room that I also use as a study/home office/den that is wall to wall books except for the door into it, and two windows.
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DivaDeb
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so many...and I resell a fair number of them when I've read them. It's ridiculous really. When my kids move away to college, I will have more room... :ph43r:
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May 12 2006, 02:57 PM
When my kids move away to college, I will have more room... :ph43r:

haha. that's what my mom thought too.... :sword:
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DivaDeb
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I am changing the locks :P
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Friday
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What is it about not being able to give away books? I insist on getting only hardcovers because The Housebound can't bear to part with any.

We have to remodel our house because we have tooo many books.

And I agree with Bach- it is very sad not to see them in homes, espsccially those homes with young children. :(
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Jack Frost
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Many many many...although I don't feel they need to be on display so many are piled in the eaves.

I am also adamant about giving away paperbacks when I am done reading them. I do not save them...feels like selfish hoarding of some kind.

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Steve Miller
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Not so many books.

I hate clutter, the public library is full of books and we have several used bookstores within a 10 mile radius. When we get through with a book we trade it in at the book store for 1/2 price and get another book.
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