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!