Are there books in your home?

[Rose65]

My house is full of books. Full shelves in the lounge and dining room, a shelf in the kitchen where I relax and read a lot - not just cookery books. The bedroom certainly has a shelf full. Even in my bathroom, I read there.

Of course I read my kindle, containing hundreds of books. But the presence of real books, collected over the years, many from previous generations of the family, gifts, charity shop choices etc, is very important to me. I pick up books everywhere and love bargains. Sometimes I have a cull, just to make space.

So is yours a bookish home? To me it is sad if not so, a life without books is to me no life at all.

 

[Tish]

I have at least one book case full of classics.

 

[BlueVilla]

Thousands of books, upstairs and downstairs. Our "sitting room" is actually a small library.

 

[officerripley]

Yes, but nowhere near enough; I love books.

 

[vintageMo]

Lovin' those books. Not enough room, though.

 

[Alizerine]

Some people call it a family room. We always called it a library. It is lined with bookshelves and that's not the only room. Glad I'm not then only one.

 

[hollydolly]

I have very few books now.. I own about 6 or 8 Hardback Tomes.. whereas I used to literally have about 100..when I had bookshelves, which I no longer have.

Nowadays I only keep books that I know I will read more than once.. more than twice even... and the rest get Donated to Oxfam or even to my Dentist or Doctors waiting room..

I have a Kindle and an Ipad which have about 30 books downloaded..

I've been a reader ever since I was first taught to string letters together.. In the absence of a book or a newspaper I will read a toothpaste tube..


I used school and Public libraries regularly all my life .. until the last few years, since the libraries now have been taken over by the Laptop brigade, instead we have the clickety clack of 20 or 30 keyboards all going at once., all taking up the space where sevral shelves of books once stood ... small children are allowed to run around screeching.. and there's no longer silence.

Rarely any new books in stock either compared to the anticipation every couple of weeks of finding new editions on the shelves...so now I buy my books

 

[CallMeKate]

So is yours a bookish home? To me it is sad if not so, a life without books is to me no life at all.

Hundreds upon hundreds.

 

[Jamala]

Yes... we bought the house with a Georgian designed library.
A lovely room to hide away and delve into the dozens of books on the shelves.
My favourite room in our home.

 

[Buckeye]

We have, I think, 3 Bibles.

 

[Jackie23]

No, I'm not one that likes a room full of books to look at and gather dust, even tho I've always been a reader, before Kindle, once I read a book, I gave it away, my reading now is all on Kindle apps.

 

[Wren]

An avid reader, I have a small bookcase in my bedroom, always full, as I read them I give them to a charity shop and replace them, I keep a few favourites but would not want a huge collection

My neighbour has a entire wall in his living room, shelved and full of books, I’m sure one day it will go through the floor ending up in the apartment below !

 

[jimintoronto]

"Lounge " found the Brit.....Grin. Second clue is "cookery books ".

As WSC once said..." The British and the Americans are a common people, divided by a common language ". JimB.

 

[Gary O']

So is yours a bookish home?

You kiddin'?
Libraries would be jealous

My lady is the bibliophile of bibliophiles

I built six of these;



They were filled to overflowing in minutes



Two in the bedroom
One in the kitchen (cook books)
Three in her hobby room

If we had room, she'd want the rest of 'em that's in the sea container up at the cabin

 

[Supernatural]

I've 3 bookcases, small, medium and large. My biggest series are "The Complete Agatha Series" plus Vampire Diaries (television series was amazing), Cookie Stackhouse Mysteries (made for television badly under the title of True Blood) and Harry Potter, of course.

Stephenie Meyers Twilight Saga. Need to look into getting the "Charmed" series of books, based on the television series created by Aaron Spelling. Others are House of Knight, Rick Riordan Percy Jackson series.

 

[hollydolly]

"Lounge " found the Brit.....Grin. Second clue is "cookery books ".

As WSC once said..." The British and the Americans are a common people, divided by a common language ". JimB.

I'm a Brit, I never use the word Lounge for living room. My mother always said that lounges are only found in Bars and Airports..

 

[RadishRose]

I'm not the avid reader I once was. Concentration is not what it was.
Do I have books in my home?

Yes. Mainly just my art books and a few others.

I'd donated, given away or threw out a small library before I moved into my small home.

I used to work in a new/used bookstore, of course I read and loved books.

 

[hearlady]

I still have three bookcases of books plus a set of encyclopedias with it's own shelves from the eighties.
All kinds, fiction, nonfiction, bibles, crafts, hobby, cooking, college text, you name it.

 

[DebraMae]

I have a bookshelf/reading corner in my bedroom, one in my living room and one up in the loft.

I donated a lot of books to a local library when I moved here. What they don't put on their shelves they sell.

 

[chic]

I prefer to get out and do rather than read about other people doing. But, yes I do have some books and would love to put together a smallish one room library if I could motivate BF to help me with it.

 

[Remy]

Yes, I have books. I took some of my read cozy mysteries to PAWS thrift a few weeks ago. Many I bought new. It killed me, but the truth is, I wouldn't read them again. But if I had the room, I would have preferred to keep them. Makes no sense really. If I really liked a book I've read, I'll keep it. But with limited space, I'll donate most of them. And keep reading.

 

[Remy]

I have a bookshelf/reading corner in my bedroom, one in my living room and one up in the loft.

I donated a lot of books to a local library when I moved here. What they don't put on their shelves they sell.

Yes, our library has a weekly book sale. Usually I work that day though. I've actually only gone a few times but their prices are great.

 

[Old Salt]

No, I'm not one that likes a room full of books to look at and gather dust, even tho I've always been a reader, before Kindle, once I read a book, I gave it away, my reading now is all on Kindle apps.

We had hundreds of paperbacks we sold to used bookstores when I retired from a big parsonage to a small apartment! And I am glad we did. My daughter gave me two books as a gift and I can't read them comfortably because the font on both is too tiny for my aging eyes.

It would be okay if I read like others, sitting up, reading glasses on, but I can only enjoy reading when lying on my side and you can't do that and use glasses. Oh, sitting behind a computer does it as well!

And so, I had over three thousand books on my tablets instead until a few months ago! Massive confusion because many were marked unread even though I had read them and there was more and more of a clutter of books. I would download the most recent ones and read them while previously downloaded ones were neglected.

A few weeks ago I finally decided to clean house and deleted all but the books I bought recently! To my shock and heartbreak I found out that the deletion did away with collections I had deemed safe because they were apart from the main listings.

All my Dick Francis, Alistair MacLean, my Spenser and Ramage (Dudley Pope) books gone! Amazon were kind enough to restore most of my Robert B. Parker "Spenser" books and re-imburse the ones they couldn't, but could not find a record of the other series mentioned above.

So, yes, I have loads of books again, read loads of books, but own only two I could put on a shelf!

 

[palides2021]

We had hundreds of paperbacks we sold to used bookstores when I retired from a big parsonage to a small apartment! And I am glad we did. My daughter gave me two books as a gift and I can't read them comfortably because the font on both is too tiny for my aging eyes.

It would be okay if I read like others, sitting up, reading glasses on, but I can only enjoy reading when lying on my side and you can't do that and use glasses. Oh, sitting behind a computer does it as well!

And so, I had over three thousand books on my tablets instead until a few months ago! Massive confusion because many were marked unread even though I had read them and there was more and more of a clutter of books. I would download the most recent ones and read them while previously downloaded ones were neglected.

A few weeks ago I finally decided to clean house and deleted all but the books I bought recently! To my shock and heartbreak I found out that the deletion did away with collections I had deemed safe because they were apart from the main listings.

All my Dick Francis, Alistair MacLean, my Spenser and Ramage books gone! Amazon were kind enough to restore most of my Robert B. Parker "Spenser" books and re-imburse the ones they couldn't, but could not find a record of the other series mentioned above.

So, yes, I have loads of books again, read loads of books, but own only two I could put on a shelf!

I'm not sure if you have accessed the archive.org which lists books that you could read for free (it's an online library). I found Alistair MacLean, for example:

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Just thought I'd pass this on!

 

[palides2021]

Yes, there are well over a thousand books in my home. We have bookcases in each room, literally. Books include nonfiction and fiction. I also have a bookcase filled with textbooks from my doctorate program. Many books were used and bought at library booksales. I have given books away over the years to different libraries and charitable organizations. The problem is, when I consider donating a book, then I read it again and don't want to let go of it!! I love books, what can I say!