How many of you own books that you have not read?! Am I alone?
How many of you own books that you have not read?! Am I alone?
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How many of you own books that you have not read?! Am I alone?
Tons. Real books and kindle books. And I use the library too.
Me too!
14 paper books and 20 ebooks….and growing by the day…
ugh. too many. 🙁 so many books so little time
I have about 120 on my book shelf that I have not read. 😳
I’ll buy 5 books – and then only read 2 b4 the next book on the store or library shelf calls my name – so glad I’m not alone –
Lots. Too many books, too little time!
Sooooooooo many.
4 floor to ceiling book shelves overflowing. I read a book donate it then buy 3 more.
I need 2 start donating! So many wonderful organizations and causes can use the books. But I can’t seem 2 let go! Will make myself do so this weekend – right? Lol-
@April 😀😀😀😀 I keep a few!
Many. I keep buying and borrowing from library too😬
Me
Too many to count, between paper books and Kobo books
Real books (3) Kindle (a bunch).
LOL- the list would go on forever I’m afraid
I counted mine! 73! Wow! So I’ve updated my TBR list- and have vowed 2 only read the unread books in my collection. Let’s see how long that lasts! Lol?
I tried that….but books mysteriously keep adding themselves…
That was my goal this year, to read 55 of the 110 I started with. Somehow I have more than I started with and I’ve only read 25 so far. Too much time on this page reading *about* books. 😜
@Linda darn book fairies!
Bunches. And yet I still get books from the library and buy more too.
I’m stocking up on books and yarn for my retirement.
I have retired have books and yarn happy happy
I did that, retired, acquired 2 grandsons I babysit and so not as much reading time as I expected but I continue to buy books!
Almost all my books are books I have not read. I rarely reread books so once I am done I pass the on to friends or the library sale.
Same.
I reread Jane Austin and Diana Gabaldon so I hold onto those.
I have a stack!
Lots and lots !!!!
I don’t remember where, but John Maynard Keynes wrote something like, “You should always own more books than you can possibly read.” I took that as gospel truth. Lol
i have tons
Me
I own a lot of books, and clearly I have more unread than read …
Can’t even count 🙄
I dunno, never counted, but there are many
Many, many! Both “real” & Kindle.
Too many to count. A house without books is empty in my opinion. Love bookcases full of books. I have about ten of them. My dream home would have a massive library.
When I was younger I lived in a house who’s walls in the dining room were built in shelves. Never got all of them filled – but know I could easily do do now.
Hundreds!
Oh, I have a bunch. It is like my buying yarn cuz it looks like Fun! 😁🤓👍
With me it’s hooks and quilting- supplies.
Yup – if books and yarn are drugs, call me an addict.
I do. I’ve read most, but some just get shoved to the back of the list. I’ve had Infinite Jest for over 20 years, read half, and never intend to finish.
Dozens! I can’t stop buying books!
No, you’re not alone. Books from the library always seem to supersede ones I own. Guess I’m saving them for when I can’t get to my library!
I used to stockpile in the summer for winter when I can’t get out but online shopping means I can buy all year!!
My theory was I’ll be ok when I retire and won’t have money to buy books , so I stock up !!!
Bookmarks magazine comes out. I buy more than I can possibly read in 2 months before the next issue is published.
I do. Too many to count!
Hundreds
Me too!
I have so many, I’m afraid to count them. Most of them are used, so I got them extremely cheap… but it might number well over a hundred… so I don’t count 😂
Dozens here as well
More than I could read before I die.
Same. 😨
Many
Um yeah I have YEARS of reading material
You are not alone. I have too many to count. My parents library, mine, part of an aunts and uncles all combine in my own mini-library. Every room in the house has at least one book case full of books. Many I have never even opened.
Too many to count!! 😂
Alone? I think there’s an army of us! So many books, so little time…and sometimes one gets bumped further down the list….
I am reading these two right now that have been upstairs in a box.
Hi Kath!
Both on Kindle and “real”. Fortunately some were on the GAR list!!
Me!
Of my entire collection, I have probably read about 60%, which means I have around 200 I haven’t. I like a deep TBR pile.😂
Do the 400+ books on my kindle count?
Me!
Guilty!
Yeah…but going too
Many, many!!
I buy faster than I can read.
I do.
Yes, many!
Too many to count
Boxes of them..
Lol ohhhh of course … I thought that was required to be a part of this recovery group. 🙂
😂😂
More than half of these, I’m sure.
Me!
It is my true addiction, don’t need rehad just more books.
I have a library in my home and originally had one “to read’ shelf. That has grown to three. I can buy them far quicker than I can read them.
I inherited a 30 volume set of the complete works of Anthony Trollop, published by Gebby &Co, Philedelphia – 1902, which I have yet to read
I have no issue with that.
Lol of course
Oh so many
Oh my word. Hundreds!!!!
Over 200 and probably 1000 on my Kindle.
more than I can literally count….but they are on my list…lol
I have so many books I have not read yet. I just keep buying books that I want to read. I am apparently a book hoarder. LOL! So little time, so many books!!! 🙂
It’s not hoarding if it’s books. 😋
@Tammy I like how you think. 😁
I plan to live a long life and I have to so I can finish all the books I own
My physical TBR list is over 100… SOOOOO yeah hahaha
I spend way too much money on books. I eventually will read them all.
I have every book written by Tony Hillerman, both fiction and non-fiction.
Me!
So many…and I keep buying and buying.
Lots!
More in the TBR area than I have life span left!!
😂😂😂😂😂 yes
Probably about 500. It makes pretty wall-dressing!
Hundreds. Unabashedly hundreds.
Me too!
@Jan And I STILL get books out of the library. Even though I have more books than a medieval monastery in my little house…..
I bet I haven’t read 1/3 of the books I own! 😂
It’s a long, long, well practiced plan..
Lots waiting
Many of them
Me
Absolutely!
I’d rather not discuss 😂
More than I’ll ever get read!
Yes. I do find freebie books & sale books so they get put out of sight. Apparently I need a bigger bookcase… or 2
Gotta have a stash
Tons but it is delicious just looking at them!
Dozens, probably more like hundreds.
Me, too!
🙋🏼♀️ a little more than I like to admit😊
I have a lot of classics that I want to read but then all the great, new bestsellers come out and I get sidetracked. There just isn’t enough time in the day! I love my bookcase filled tho! So pretty.
Many
I am afraid I own more books than I can read in my lifetime! But does that stop me from buying more books? Uh, no! There is always another book I hear or read about that I just have to have. And this site isn’t helping my addiction! 😉
Piles and piles and I continue to collect more.
Shelves full of books I haven’t read!!! The one positive I can say is I purchased “most”at used books sales, yard sales, and thrift shops!!
And currently have 3 books checked out of the library!!!
A few hundred…intend to read them all…we’ll see
At least a hundred. 🤓
Hundreds
Oh, I have a bookshelf full that I haven’t read yet! I’m not proud of it, but I do.
🤣🤣🤣 Next question!🤣🤣🤣
Shelves and piles
Me.
No.
Several!!
Most of them, lol!
Too many to count. But still buy more.
Ha!!!!!!! Sacks and sacks of them!!!!
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
Yes, I own many books that I have not read.
No no
HAHA. Of course we have books we haven’t read!!
I have my books separated into sections. Working books(cooking, sewing, DIY, Etc.), books I have read and LOVE, books I keep for nostalgic reasons(Ive read them and want to read them to my children type of stuff), books I want to read and will probably give away or donate after reading, and books that my husband keeps because he loves them, books he wants to get rid of but I want to read( sort of with the read then donate pile) and lastly kids books Im collecting for my littles to read.
Im thinking of adding a section of books I want my husband to read. And Id be ok if he added one for me too. 😁
So many!
Yes, I have a few! Haha
Many
The TBR pile is over 50 and growing.
More than I can admit to. I’m trying to get them read now. Especially the ones I’ve had for awhile. Of course I’m doing this while trying to read some GAR books I hadn’t read before!! 😀
I have too many TBR books!
Sooooo many!
I will not live long enough to read the books on my “to read” list.
You’re going to love retirement.📚🙂
Buy more every week.
👍👍
Tons
No I have a lot. It’s a problem and my family is planning an intervention soon.
I believe 1/3 of my home library is unread. I find I’m adding all the time even though will always have TBR books. 🙂
There’s a pile next to my easy chair. And a pile on my bedside table…
Literally, hundreds….and I’m awaiting more that will arrive in the mail….I can’t resist a bargain….
Too many
An ever-growing pile of them… 😉
Lots. Getting to the now .
A very big stack!
https://www.fs.blog/2013/06/the-antilibrary/
Interesting idea. Thanks for posting!
Lots, lost count
I have several. I keep seeing books on this list that I haven’t read in quite a while so I keep wanting to reread other books
I have two book cases full of unread books
You are so not alone – I have hundreds of unread books. Quite ridiculous really
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
Lots and lots I haven’t read . Doesn’t stop me from buying more either 🙂
Thought it was the law.
Read a book, get 5 more… lol
Speaking for myself…yeah, pretty much. Late to this pleasure so it may be relavent. When get a new read I have selected it. Between selections re-read is fine time spent.
Heavens no!!! I can’t stop buying books. Really don’t like reading ebooks either!
Between 1/4 to 1/3 of my owned books are unread…..
I only have a few that I haven’t read, and they are the ones I’ve recently picked up. 😊📚📚📚
I have several.
I have many!
I’m ashamed to admit how many I have.
Lots!
I own 300+….
I have plenty to choose from 😉
Too many!!
I know, I have problem. Just can’t seem to stop
I have thousands of books to read!! My husband thinks I’m nuts!
Probably have more unread than read…read 1 buy 3
way too many and still, I NEED more.
And those 8 emails every day, with free and bargain books, aren’t helping matters….not to mention the unbelievable deals and selection at http://thriftbooks.com/…
@Michael I just put the thriftbooks app on my phone – you enabler – lol
I should get a commission from them, for my word of mouth advertisements….
@Michael love ThriftBooks!!!!
I bought so much stuff from them since GAR aired, never heard of them until I joined this book club….nearly all books and DVDs are $3 each after the discounts they offer….
We have two HALF PRICE BOOKSTORES in Louisvlle, KY…still a half hours drive each way to visit either of them…keep dropping hints that we, in southern Indiana can read and love to buy books too…..have to keep working that angle…I am getting to old to do the interstates between my house in southern IN and the two stores on the other side of Louisville.
Barbara Adams Whiteside….2 words….http://thriftbooks.com/…they have EVERYTHING….most books and DVDs are about $3 each after discounts, more than 50-75% off in most instances….and free shipping….
will check it out…thanks.
Also, your local library (usually through RB Digital or Overdrive apps), Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg have free e-books and audiobooks and LibriVox has audiobooks….
Close to 50. My daughter keeps giving me books and I have to read them first.
Most books I’ve read are not mine hihihi
Oh man… my kindle is overloaded! If only I didn’t have to work all day!
Alot
More than I am old!!!!
Yep!
I’m so glad to hear I’m not alone! I have about a hundred and I just bought two yesterday at the library, one was Fahrenheit 451!
Lots of them.
More than a few.
Of course!
I own tons, that I have not read!
I have filled up my shelves and have books stacked up walls!
Lol…yes😛
I do
Hundreds LOL
Me too. Alas, I imagine that I have only read about 1/3 of what I own.
And I keep getting more. I bought 5 from the dollar tree this weekend and yesterday I returned three books to the library but picked up two more. LOL it’s never ending!!!
I know what you mean. LOL I ordered one yesterday.
Many, many books
And yet I still keep buying more books! The struggle is real.
I do
I just bought the 2 original books, Cheaper By The Dozen and Belles On Their Toes on Amazon….$3 Kindle Book Set, today only I believe….I always wanted to read CBTD….I love the original film….
I once had a button, got it at Frankfurt Book Fair when I was a bookseller. The button said “So many books, so little time!”
I need a bag like that so I can put my many books in it 😊
Lots and lots and lots! It’s definitely an addiction. I’ve eased up on the purchasing lately by using the library and Overdrive.
I do
Absolutely, books on shelves, in bags and boxes. My library has a monthly sale, grocery bag full of books for $5., second bag free. I love my library, lol!
A set of Mary Poppins my dad gave me as an adult, I don’t know why. And some witchy book by Janet Evanovitch that I haven’t read beyond the first chapter.
Couple of dozen.
I buy them constantly. They are everywhere.
Maybe 30-40?
Then there are those books that are really difficult to read. Best example is Ulysses by James Joyce of course.
I would never have made it through Ulysses if it hadn’t been required for a college course.
@Stacy That must have been torture.
Anthony Burgess wrote a book about Joyce, that is a helpful reading.
@Hans-Joachim I loved The Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. At least I somewhat knew what to expect when I got to Ulysses. 😂
Way more than I wish to admit.
About 300
My husband and I have stacks and shelves full. We get through them eventually but then there’s the purchases…lol
The thrill of the buy!! That new book smell❤️❤️❤️
@Beth there’s also this used book store I go to that has trade credit. So,you can imagine how many books I’ve traded in for the next batch. It’s an addiction.
@Kelly I have a place like that close too🙌🏻👏🏻👊🏻
On this page, I suspect if you DON’T own books you haven’t read you’d more than likely be alone. 😉 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 ……
I have a bunch on numerous subjects. I could get through them, but the library keeps getting new books that also need reading.
Not many. A couple because I was not in the right frame of mind to continue but I know I’ll have a run at ’em again. I’m really good about going through and weeding those I’ll never read again or that were a mistake to begin with.
I need 2 learn 2 do that!
I have ~300 and I plan to read all of them, if only I would stop going to the library and using Overdrive! 📚📚📚
I have an entire tower of books I have not read! I simply love the feeling of being surrounded by books, I guess.
i have a small stack, i’m afraid of needing e new one and not having it
I do…
Shelves lol…I buy book at thrift n yard sales, take them for free etc n put them on the shelves. I read a lot n I between library books and kindle books I read new ones from my shelves.
So many I’ll never have time to read all of them!
Are you kidding?
Absolutely! I thought everybody had a “books to read” stack!
About a gazillion!
🙋♀️🙋♀️
Tons of them!
Me too!
My husband says that I shouldn’t go to any more book sales until I have read the ones i have… but then I go to the library!
My piles get bigger n bigger
Worse yet, how many do a book purge & then turn around and re-buy the same books you gave away? Asking for a friend 😉
I have bought the same book more than once, when I still have it sitting at the house!! I’m currently looking for a book I bought last summer, that I forgot about…it has to be somewhere in this house!! Ugh!!
@Mary you make me feel better – at the moment I have 3 duplicates that I know of!!
I think I have purchased “Tess of the D’ubervilles” on three separate occasions and still haven’t read it.
You are not alone
Lots.
That’s funny.
Yes,but eventually I will get to them.
You are not alone
You are not alone! The bigger question is how many books do you own that you haven’t read
A few. But more that I “only” read once and hope to read again.
You are not alone! Now sure how many but there are quite a few.
At least 200
I have many unread books
Yep, have a few of those.
🙋🏻♀️ to many to count, and I just ordered another one from Amazon 🙊🤦🏻♀️
Too many!!
Is this a trick question? Who doesn’t own unread books? By the score! Hahahaha!
And even though I own books I haven’t read, I still check out several at a time from the library!
Oh, lots
Only about 250 or so ☺️
😊😊
I have a lot! I blame the buy with one click option on Amazon. 😁
That one click buying makes it way too easy
I have shelves full of books I’ve not read yet. And still buying more!
If I don’t have 10 or 12 waiting for me I get anxious
I have a lot of unread treasures that I pick up from yard sales and thrift stores.
Let’s just say in the event of a Zombie apocalypse, I’m good.
I have a whole shelf full.
Have any of you folks been analyzed? You could save me a trip to a shrink!
If I say yes, will you remove me from this group? Please don’t because I love it!
Me
Lots 😀
But I WANT to read them . . . Just as soon as I finish the three I ‘m reading now.
No
Of course! But I still need more new books!
Many, many
Nope
I have a bookcase full!
You are not alone! I own many books I haven’t read. And I just keep buying more! (Though I do borrow many from the library too!)
Stacks and stacks
It’s more like I’ve read more books than I own.
No😟😟
Of course you’re not alone! I have stopped buying books, relying now almost exclusively on my wonderful local library, for precisely that reason — too many books languishing unread on my shelves, and no more space to keep any more. I will never get to all the books I want to read, but I will happily keep trying!
You are not alone, lol! I have several and I just bought 8 more books today!
No
I am a book hoarder!!!!😔 I must always have books ready to fill the gap… which I never allow to happen….
Tons! And I always think of them when I am thinking of buying a new book – and then I buy it anyway!
If we didn’t own books we haven’t read, what would there be to read next? 😉
I have a whole huge bookshelf of books I haven’t read yet 🤓
Hundreds
No
No
Those are only books I haven’t read, YET.
Most books I own I have not read.
My eyes are always hungrier than I am able to actually tackle. I also have a (used) bookstore addiction.
Me too!
I have 1 bookcase dedicated for “books to read”.
I do and call them motivation.
Too many
I have so many on my bookshelf and on my Kindle that I haven’t read! That has never stopped me from getting more books. So I have plenty to read for the next few years ! 😁
You are definitely not alone.
No you are not, ive got loads all to be read on of these days😂
No, you are not! I’d be embarrassed to admit how many books I own & have not read yet. And I do not mean simply double digits … 😂
I’m in that boat too!
Too many to count!
Yep!
I’m one to buy books then just keep taking out books from the library to read instead for some reason.
I’ve lost count after five.
Yes, but I’ll get to all of them… maybe
Have a stack!
Hundreds, hundreds and they keep coming. In addition to my actual books, I have at least 250 on my Kindle
My people!
Yes! This!
Yes. I feel like since they are mine, there is no hurry.
Oh yes, lots. My daughter-in-law was here yesterday and I chatted with her about the stack of ten or so “that I have decided I really want to read next:” As of January, I purged four full boxes of books and donated them to Planned Parenthood for their annual booksale. Those were ones I read or didn’t really ever want to read. That left about 80 (beyond the ones “I really want to read next) on the bookself that I WILL read someday?
💕PP💕
Donated to Planned Parenthood! YAY! I Love books and P.P. and I donate small amounts of money to them frequently, keep it up the great job!!😊
100s of them…
I figure I will have to live to be 108 to get all my books read.
Good luck!
No
Yes
You are not alone. I think it would be difficult to find that anyone is unique; despite our fear and desire of uniqueness. 😉
I would guess I own at least twenty books I have not yet read. Went to the bookstore yesterday too! 😁
I have so many I don’t even know how many. They are my security blanket.
You are not alone
It gets worse if you read several books at once…
🙈🙉🙊
You are not alone! I have about 5 that I need to read!
But of course.
Hundreds. This pic is my new motto.
Saved
@Nora I’m going to have this made into one of those vinyl wall things and hang it on the wall in my library. Once I unpack the books…I haven’t lived there that long yet. And I’d rather read a book than unpack them.
Oh, yeah….
so many! and every time i see them, i feel inspired to read them and then….a new book is released and i’m pulled into that instead! it’s a permanent “TO READ” library! i still love them all though 🙂
Me!
Have a stack also!!
A full book case of them!
I own books that I haven’t read——-YET!
You’re not a true book nerd if you don’t have a gigantic stack of books that you haven’t gotten around to reading yet.
I fully intend to read those.
“Think about it, it’s more clutter, do you really need it?”
“Need schneed, it’s a book, leave me alone.”
And thus is the conversation have with myself when I see books to buy or borrow. Not usually out loud though.😎
I have to live to 175 to read all the books I own
I don’t count so I don’t feel guilty buying more books 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
And I don’t even know how to read, that’s the craziest thing….
I read about 300 a year
Impressive
Wow I read 100 last year, I do work full time and have 3 children and housework that keeps me busy. 300 wow
I am 61 an work my husband is very sick so I stay home a lot
@Pansy, are you in the Good Reads 2018 reading challenge? They ask you how many books you can read in a year and then you try to make your goal. You do have to enter each title to get credit for reading it. I read about 140 a year, but I still work full time so that slows me down!
@Pansy sorry to hear about your husband.
@Roslyn no ijusr do itcause I love to read
@Roslyn rhank you
No not at all 😆
Several! I keep buying new ones that I want to read. Life gets in the way of reading!
Many!!
Yes…yes..YES. I thought there was something inherently wrong with me📚📚
No ! There is nothing wrong with you ! It’s okay Beth ! Lol
Me
Yes…and I also keep checking books out of the library, and downloading Kindle freebies, and perusing the used bookstore, and…more books, always, more books!
Moi, aussi (me, too). Plus yarn, patterns, etc.
Of course, what book to read is related to the moment the question is asked.
500 -600… ish. I have problems.
I have books I havent read yet.
I suspect the same number of people who own clothes that don”t fit (“I’ll lose that 10 lbs someday:-) ).
I have over 500 books on my Kindle (I’ve read about 100 of them so far but I am constantly adding new ones that I get from Bookbub), I go to the library 2x /month and take out at least 2 books, and I have a pile of ‘to read” books on the side of my bed and various bookshelves around my house. And I never pass an independent bookstore without a purchase.
All of the above, plus notes on books to read (paper and virtual), GoodReads to read list (always growing). Add that to everything else I wish to do and either I’m a dreamer or an immortal.
Bookcases full.
Yep me
On the To Read list, both actual books and kindle
My Uncle made this bookcase for my aunt 80 years ago. I have filled it with my family’s collection of old books.
My mother’s copy of Gone With the Wind-1936 and my grandfather’s The Life of General William T Sherman by James P Boyd, A. M., 1891. I have read many but not all of these books. They are all dear to my heart.
Me!!
Totally with you. I’ll never get them all read before I die.
I have enough books on the shelf to read for a year … at least.😳
my TBR shelves and bag are busting at the seams. I keep getting library books at 3 different libraries
Me
Many! I keep meaning to read some so I can put them out in my Little Free Library (unless I absolutely can’t part with them) but then something I’ve requested or found at the public library catches my eye, and I have to read it before needing to return it. So my own pile of books keeps growing, but definitely doesn’t seem to get smaller!
Of course, I do. Because I wouldn’t want to be left with nothing to read! Duh.
guilty as charged.
Oh no I have many!
No you are not alone
I own so many books I haven’t read yet. I ❤️ books!
Do I ever? It is as if I have a fear of running out of books to read so I have a large stockpile.
No idea, rough guess 700-800 books I own and haven’t read yet.Just ordered 3 more.
That I have not read *yet*
Yes me!!!
Me too
Me. I
A bookcase full of unread books is a life insurance policy. Can’t go anywhere, I haven’t finished reading all of my books.
exactly! i’m not allowed to die until i read them all. at this point, i think i’ll outlive the sun 😛
@April i’m ok with this.
I have over 100 books that I personally own that I haven’t read and even more than 100 on my to buy list
I have 2894 books on my Goodreads ‘want to read’ list, I only own about 600-700 of them.
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
A couple hundred
I have read everything I own but I do have some in read library books
I often buy books that resonate with me and don’t read them sometimes for years….
You never know when I might need a book to read!! 😬
Maybe 25 or so?
People keep writing them…we must keep up
The great authors conspiracy! 😂🤣
Me! I made myself a goal for this year to at least read 20 books. Doesn’t sound so hard but I’m a stay at home mother of two boys that definitely keep me busy. But so far I’m on book number 5 this year.
You are not alone – I bet I have almost 100 ! 🤓🤓🤓🤓
So many and doesn’t stop me from buying more!
Me!! Lost count🤪!
Many. I tell myself that I am stocking up for the day when I can’t get out to buy more! What can I say? Gives me comfort.😂
I’m the same way. Knowing I would at least have books if I became destitute brings me comfort!
Of course. Probably over 100. I’ll get to them.
Hmmmm😳.yes
I have stacks everywhere.
Oh I didn’t include kindle.. probably 6-700
DO NOT read “Vampires in the lemon grove” by Karen Russell. Our book club read and every one of us hated it!
Shoooot! I have one bookcase on which 3 shelves are double- and triple-stacked with unread books, and my shelves in my livingroom also have many books still as yet unread, and my guest room has my Cherry Ames, Sue Barton, Happy Hollisters, and Bobbsey Twins collections that aren’t completely read yet.
Hundreds probably!! 😂
I was a book hoarder and now I am a ebook hoarder. I had to make lists on Goodreads so I know what I have. I am crazy with it. I started borrowing ebooks from the Public Library. Controls me somewhat. Lol
I think I’ve read maybe three shelves of this mess 😂
There’s a book for that…
A bookcase full!
Yep, that’s me. But I solved the problem by selling or donating most of my books, keeping just a few favorite ones I’d already read.
But a new problem has arisen. I now have a Kindle, and I’ve bought literally hundreds of ebooks that I haven’t read yet. In fact, in some cases, I bought ebook versions of the physical books I sold or donated.
Yep, bibliomania can be even worse with ebooks. But it doesn’t clutter your house.
Me too! Haha
I am in the same situation, especially with the sales from Kindle, Bookhub etc. 🤣
One ebook marketer stands out for me: Open Road Media. They send an email every day of books on sale (usually priced between $1.99 to $3.99). I could live in their ebook backlist.
Thanks ! Another place for me to check out! 😊
You are never alone if you have a book.
I own hundreds of books I haven’t read.
Tons!!! I never pass up good bargains on books at the thrift stores. Plus piles of library books. They are like happiness in the hand! I dream of having a library room and will have plenty to read in old age and on my way there 😊 ❤ 📚
No, you are not alone! I have many many many books that have not been read yet. Key word-yet!
A lot! My to be read books are starting to pile up. I don’t give up hope of getting them all read. 🙂
Me too
Loads! Hardbacks, paperbacks, and dozens of ebooks!
A bunch!🤪
Me too
Me
I have hundreds I have not read yet!
A shelf full!
Yeah, the kindle is dangerous…no way to keep track of the “stacks’ to be read
I am starting to get into the habit of getting it from the library instead of buying it but IT IS HARD! Some people have shoe addictions I have a book addiction😀
Me too!
Sigh. Yep.
Oh, my, I’m sure I own thousands of books I haven’t read! I’ll get to them…😂
Or is there anyone who has read all the books they own, say in your “posession” a year or more? Not me
It was my New Years resolution to read the books on my shelf and not buy a new one. I am making my way through the 53 I had to read!
so many. Especially the really small print ones. Sorry I didn’t buy them for my kindle.
Ah yep 😁
I own a few I have not read… yet. A couple I’m saving for retirement.
A stack.
At least 20.
I have a stack. Just in case……
I have about 50 books on my Kindle that I haven’t read.
Hahahahaha. So is “thousands” an acceptable answer?
absolutely 🙂
So many.
5 bookcases a bunch of drawers and a shelf in the closet
Literally, hundreds
Every book on my shelves have been read.
I couldn’t begin to tell you.
Oh yes
Probably a hundred or so…it’s okay, though. They are good company regardless!