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).
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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shocked
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I have decided I cannot die until I have run out of unread books so at this rate, if the buy vs read curve holds, I should be good for another century.
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...
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.
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.