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).

Comments

[eoforyth.livejournal.com]

I heard about this on the radio this morning when I was half awake, and thought at first they'd said the average household had an average of 138 books still to be read, which wasn't too far from the count here TBH.

[hrrunka]

Someone has to skew the figures to balance out all those houses with fewer than 10 books... ;)

[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...

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

That is a very sad statistic. What is the point of buying a book and then not reading it. I must admit my purchase of actual physical books has gone down since getting my Kindle, But at the last count you'd have to add a nought to that figure.