A scary statistic

[were_gopher]

The average British household has 138 volumes on its shelves, less than half of which have been read

I think that's the size of the stack of 'read then chuck back in the charity box' stack by my bed. This is apart from the 'read and keep stack' across the room (5 of the large cloth bags with stick handles + 3 folding crates).

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[aunty_marion]

As I remarked to Tiggy on FB, if you doubled that figure and added a nought on the end, you'd probably be somewhere in the region of half my books. Just my main SF collection is five shelves, EACH with about that many on it! I should think the auxiliary over-the-sofa set is at least twice 138, then there's the non-fiction and various oddments. And that's just the living room. Oh, and the large supermarket heavy-duty carrier with the extra Anne McCaffrey and other not-much-read books, which lurks under the knitting yarn behind the TV.

I can't be arsed to go into the bedroom and do a random count there.

There are probably at least half a dozen unread ones - acquired from odd places and by various means, some of which may or may not get read eventually.

And then there's the e-book collection, which has started well since I acquired the tablet in January...

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

My SF/F/H library currently stands at 5475 books though himself thinks there may be more of his Mothers collection still in storage waiting to be fed in.

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/Murphyslawyer

That is the catalogued stuff.

As for the shoulder high double stacked bookcase with the detective and spy collection, the chest high classics one (ignore the bulldog drummonds on the bottom shelf), the three similar sized of coffeetable movie reference and kids annuals, the head high partly double stacked graphic novels one, the similar sized reference section, ditto biography & misc, and the bookcase that came from my Mums childhood bedroom that has the esoterica, regular size movie reference and various other waifs and strays... I think I need to get busy with the laptop.

[aunty_marion]

My count would be considerably higher if I'd been buying books over the past seven years, which I haven't. I've had a few from Lulu (by friends) and a couple of second-hand ones from charity shops, and TWO! NEW!! ONES!!! from Forbidden Planet - Robin McKinley's latest two, because she had a signing. Forbidden Planet (and other bookshops...) became Planet Forbidden after I was made redundant.

I've given up cataloguing apart from the SF books, which mysteriously look a lot fewer in the catalogue than I can count on the shelves.

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

Most of my buying is the secondhand stalls in the dealers room (Brian knows me all too well). There are very few 'must buy new' writers or series these days.