Are you a book hoarder?

[pulstar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ncL2sP-7U

So lets see how many of TA are obsessed by books. If so, what kind of books you are mostly collecting and do you think you go OCD when you see the book you like in a bookstore?

[Ülev]

České knihy only, sorry
https://i.postimg.cc/nL6NCt5t/katerina-zahanska.jpg

[Satem]

Nope

[TheMaestro]

Last time I had a book in my hands it when to fireplace.

[Bosniensis]

No.. we have internet ffs

[pulstar]

No.. we have internet ffs

I got full 29 piece Encyclopedia Britannica 1998 edition with 4 extra index books, tons of autobiographies & biographies, psychology, various science, engineering, mathematics, arts & humanities, traveling, architecture, and science-fiction on 7 or 8 large shelves :lol:

[Bosniensis]

I got full 29 piece Encyclopedia Britannica 1998 edition with 4 extra index books, tons of autobiographies & biographies, psychology, various science, engineering, mathematics, arts & humanities, traveling, architecture, and science-fiction on 7 or 8 large shelves :lol:

Good God,

You don't have to buy fire-starters for the next 50 years.

[Westbrook]

I usually give books away after I finish them unless it's something I might need to reference later.

[pulstar]

I usually give books away after I finish them unless it's something I might need to reference later.

Part of the books I own are over 60 years old (some more than 100 years old) and have actual value, apart from sentimental.

[щрбл]

Чукча не читатель, Чукча - писатель.

[frankhammer]

I have 150 or so stored in a cabinet in the garage. When i moved into my home 4 years ago, i gave 6 large boxes of books to the local hospice shop.

Amongst the books and annuals i kept are a fair number of 50s- 70s kids books you can't buy today. No modern filters, raw, simple and adventurous. My kids loved them growing up so I'm keeping them for future generations of planet/race slayers. :shrug:

It may seem odd but my son wants them saved too.

[The Lawspeaker]

Yes. Next question.

[Óttar]

I have a 9 volume bilingual Sanskrit-English Ramayana that's over 9,000 pages long. I have a number of Sanskrit-English Hindu prayer books and some German books. I inherited my grandfather's small library of leather-bound, gold-leafed paged, literary classics, and I would like to own the entire Harvard Loeb Classical Library in bilingual Latin-English and Greek-English translation. There was also a Sanskrit library based on the Loeb Classical Library, but they are currently on hiatus due to lack of funding.

Unfortunately, my reading has diminished since leaving school due to my brain being fried by computer screens, but I still manage to read occasionally.

[sean]

I have like 2000 books filling up my phone that I've been neglecting to read. I basically downloaded every book online that interested me and I'm saving them for rainy days. I have way too many books that I'll probably never read lel.

[pulstar]

I have like 2000 books filling up my phone that I've been neglecting to read. I basically downloaded every book online that interested me and I'm saving them for rainy days. I have way too many books that I'll probably never read lel.

This is minor reason why I (mostly) stopped using electronic books. Major reason would be combination of reducing time spent in front of screens and the fact I can focus better when I read paper books.

[Celestia]

I still have my books I read from elementary school. So yes,
There’s a certain appeal to old books imo.

[wisteria]

I really love books, but I don’t hoard them. I only buy the ones I really really like, are useful, or that I expect I’ll read more than once. I get books from the library very often.

[Maintenance]

No, i own like 10 books.

[Smeagol]

No. I collect a lot of books, but I also sell or give away many when I'm done with them.

[Laly]

Yes, I am a book hoarder, and it worries a little bit my husband. He says I buy books compulsively. In fact, I buy books even when I've not yet read the ones bought previously. I have a big physical library, with a lot of literary books, travel books, books on art and cinema, history books and religious books. Now, I buy mainly history and religious books.

[Melki]

Yes, I'm a bookworm and a compulsive buyer of books. A week doesn't go by without me buying my share of new books.

In fact, this is me.

https://zupimages.net/up/20/36/x3nn.jpg (https://zupimages.net/viewer.php?id=20/36/x3nn.jpg)

Difficult to properly assess the number of books on my shelves. Probably something between 3 000 and 4 000...

[calxpal]

I have hoarded certain kinds of books including Manga and puzzle books (hope those count lol) :thumb001::).

[JosephK]

I don't have enough space for my books. I've had to rent a storage space for them. In the old days I would buy them then sell them back to a used bookseller as soon as I read them, I almost made a living doing that... or at least I could recoup some of what I spent. Now my apartment is overflowing: tables, chairs, the floor, with stacks of books and journals and papers. My wife hates it but we don't have much of a choice.

[Samnium]

Many litterature, history and art books.

Some psychological too : I have two books from Freud for example.

Without forgetting religious and "esoterical" one : about Free-massons, Holy Grail, the Bible etc.

[JosephK]

I can't imagine the kind of money I spent when, having lived in England for a little over a year, I shipped all of the books I bought back to the States... numerous trips to the Post office over a period of a couple months. But I still probably came out ahead, since good books were so cheap in the UK and easy to find (my goodness, the free books I was entitled to at Waterstones and WH Smith! Ridiculous!). We don't really have bookshops in Chicago, especially now since Barnes and Noble closed down.