How many books do I own? (counting my entire collection)
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Hi friends,
I've always wondered how many books I own, so I decided to count them!
I hope you find this entertaining... I found it a bit concerning hahaha
Sending you my best wishes,
Carolyn Marie :)
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Just short of a library - time to go shopping. 😀
I own about 1500 books (it's been a while since I last counted them), and I have only read about half of them, but to me there is more to collecting books than just reading them as soon as possible. I enjoy looking at my books on the shelves and looking forward to reading them at some point. Some of them I will probably never even read - but I've still enjoyed owning them. 📚
Well, l share the same likeness towards owning books knowing it would take me quite some time even years to initiate reading. It troubles me thinking but l believe it is ok when you have that earnest likeness towards literature and rhetorics. Happy Reading.
When you got to the final count and said "I have a problem", I thought, no, you don't have a problem, you have a PASSION. My home library count came to a tidy 1150, so yes I officially have a library. I now keep a running tally of the books I've acquired since I lasted counted all my books shelf by shelf, so that way it's just easy to add the tally to the written number if I'm ever curious how many I currently own. 💚
You do have a problem, Carolyn. You don't have enough shelves!
Now buy 33 books to have a library, that's a win win
An interesting fact to relay to everyone - The great literary critic Harold Bloom had approx 50,000 books on the third floor of his New Haven, CT home. He also had 2 offices at Yale University that contained another 30,000. On top of this, he had an apartment in NY that had another 15,000, roughly. Therefore, he had a personal library of 95,000 books! Carolyn, your off to an awesome start, but you only have 1 percent or so of what he amassed in his lifetime! Anyway, keep up the great work on your channel. (a fan of yours from Connecticut)
Why does 1000 books equal a library? I've heard it floating around booktube but I don't really get what that is supposed to mean. A home library can be any size right? And a library library is a place for lending out books which a home library is not so idk what an "official library" is...
I just started my book collection last December after I hated reading books for so long. Now I have 262 books and growing! You honestly helped me become a bookworm when you shared your infectious love of the stories you read. So thank you!
I'm way too excited we're both 5 foot, LOL. Enjoying this on a cozy afternoon.
I have close to 2000. I’ve read 95 percent of them, and have around 500 on kindle. But I’m in my 40s. If you keep going you will definitely catch up. But I purchase fewer books now due to space and money considerations. And I also started to curate more and sell or give away certain books. Any book I don’t remember reading I get rid of.
Woww!! That's huge, amazing. I wish I'm your nearest neighbour to borrow some. 😆🤌
You've got a great collection! Amazing, Carolyn!!
I ADORE that white sweater/cardigan, it is gorgeous!
Wow! When i grew old, i wanna have a library like yours, Carolyn! 😃
The first thing I thought when I started the video was "what a cute sweater" and then lo and behold, you were advertising the company! Love it.
Oh, I love all of those sweaters!! I have knitted lots of sweaters but I would rather read and just order all of those sweaters! 😊💕
I miss paper books over Kindle but I'm in Canada and as you know from traveling here, books are SO expensive here! Like 20-30 dollars for a new book and not everyone is blessed with good used book stores. So your number for all new books here would be over 24,000 dollars! Even if they were used and say 10 dollars a piece we are obviously nearly at 1000 dollars. My Kindle and Kobo really were my best investments bc i can read unlimited for like 12 dollars a month (slightly less) and then if a book i really want doesn't have a great Kindle price or its one i would just love a physical copy of i feel ok about spending the extra on! My son just started an English degree and prior to that he always loved reading. He's got a few hundred books that he was able to find second hand but he's done a lot of traveling and during highschool he and his gf would drive around on their lunch and look at tiny libraries! He also has gone to the town library and asked if they would sell him old sets that weren't being checked out and they have him great deals so he got a LOT of old leather bound books from the library at low cost. He literally had boxes stacked in his car full of them! When he went abroad for a few months he had to buy a second suitcase for books he bought at markets and second hand stores. I love that he's been able to travel and nurture his passion at the same time! It's really unfortunate though that our town only has one book store and it's all used and even though it's massive the turnover is so low that we have no clue how she stays in business. My son has been trying to spend gift certificates there for over a year but the stock just doesn't change! Even our library isn't the greatest esp with new books. For example, i wanted to read the new Lisa Jewell book and when i got in line on the hold, i was 819th! Her book prices on Kindle are rather high, around 16 dollars, so I'll just wait it out but i wish that the libraries would really work with the both reading for academic reasons and reading for pleasure reasons and start getting more copies of new releases.
Well for my book collection. I just started pretty recenty and I own 44 books. Some are gifts and some I bought. Oh its my first time to comment on your channel though I had been watch most of your vids this couple of months and you really help me a lot to get started into reading 😂. You and Emma help me see good books to explore from a perspective of a not bookish person 😂 but now im enjoying reading ❤
Congratulations 🎉 that's quite the accomplishment! Just wait until after your birthday and Christmas, you just might make it! My guess was that you were going to have 1028 books. I have a "library" of 201.
Hi Carolyn, your collection is amazing, I have many similar books to yours especially the classics. My collection is 1,238 books... so I guess it is a library 😁
happy belated birthday Carolyn!!
I keep a spreadsheet of my books so it's easy to keep count😊Right now I'm at exactly 100!
🎉👏👏
That’s such a good ideia.
A bookworm/accountant hybrid. 😁
genius! do write notes about your reactions?
@@jmsl_910 I don't, but probably because I keep a reading journal too 😅 the spreadsheet is just for keeping track of the basic info like what edition/cover I have, when and where I got it, and if I've read it fully, partially, or not at all!
I’d love if you’d make a video about your favorite covers of various books as well as a video talking all about your favorite editions/collections (ones you own and ones you don’t) ♥️
You'll definitely be able to do your Irish accent in that Irish cable sweater 😉 😂
Now I want to count my books! 😂📚
The sweaters are cute. I like the Rory Gilmore one.:)
You can always crochet a sweater, I just did, it was fun. That is a lot of books,
patchwork sweaters are so much fun
My collection consists of a little less than 600 last time I counted it and I have about 150 unread books (49 of them are the penguin little modern classics though, so quite short and fast reads). I always think that as long as you are happy with the books, there can never be too many :D
If you like that style of clothing you should like Aran sweaters.I would say,including my guitar books,I would have over 1000 items.
421 books on my shelfs. I thought it would be around 300, because I have counted them once before. I am nowhere close to a library though, that’s impressive.
Oh, and I also have around 300 audiobooks😉.
Wow, who knew watching someone count books could be so entertaining? You have a lot of books, but, nothing wrong with that. You don't actually have a problem - well, yes you do. You need more shelves.
I do love those jumpers, especially the blue and white one you showed first. It really suits you.
Impressive collection. I keep my books on a spreadsheet and am always updating when I aquire/unhaul. I currentlyhave 885 novels. However, as an elementary librarian, I have acquired an embarrassing amount of picture books, probably equalling my novel collection. 😬 Plus random other books I don't keep cataloged in bins in the garage. I have a problem.
I hope you read Crawford in the new year. It’s a wonderful book. I also have the clothbound edition, though it is the only clothbound one I have…so far 😉
I had to get an app to organize mine, because I would end up rebuying some being sure I didn't have it. Minus special editions or ones that could not be added for some reason or another I am currently at 1695. I have them spread through 14 bookshelves and tend to get the majority on the cheaper side and have an awesome wife who does not have a problem with my collection, lol.
you have such a beautiful collection, full of so many amazing books!🥀 there are 68 books on my bookshelves, i try to hold myself together not to buy a lot of books as i don't have enough space now to keep them:)
Carolyn, if you have a problem, than what can I say with 1700 books? I need some bookshelves. 🤣Your (almost) library is beautiful.
Awwww .. you look so beautiful wearing those sweaters. I have 3 out of those all.
824 is my guess 📚I’m curious to see if I’m close!
Thoughts after watching the video:
I was close to 831 and then you kept going and I was like ‘okay!’ 😂
I now wish I could count all my books. I’m currently living in Germany and my books are in England with my parents until I return from working backstage on a musical in Düsseldorf.
I really love the jumper you’re wearing, it looks so cosy! 💙🩵
Probably a ridiculous question, but why don’t you consider any audiobooks and ebooks as part of your library? Seems like you should! They’re still books after all! Great video, Carolyn! 📚
agreed!!!
You make a very good point, but for this video I just wanted to focus on my physical books 😊
4752 is our total. All catalogued on Librarything so I stop buying doubles.
Approximately 50 pages to go in this, my third, reading of Wuthering Heights. As I read, I recall many on the diverse opinions on it I've heard and find it odd that almost all of them seem relevant and true. It is a romance, and it is a ghost story, and it is a story about cyclical abuse, amongst other things. At this point, the best I can say about it is it seems marvelously well crafted for a book written at a time in human history when editing and revision was a task nearly impossible due to the lack of cut and paste, erasure, and methodology for keeping track of pages, events, and character traits. So, I am enjoying it yes but cannot commit to one particular perspective on it.
What a fun video!
People call my room as mini library where I haven't counted them yet... in 3 days I'm moving to a new home and I'm carrying 45 books with me to be read... all who call mine a mini library should see urs 🤣
"I have a problem" this is what my mother too says! "Insane to fill ur room with books! You have a problem!" And I reply " why are u peeping into my room?bcs you have a problem"😅...
It's just passion Caroline! Not problem!
I somehow didn't realize until right now that you're from Long Island! I grew up in Merrick, lived there for all of my first 18 years. Shoutout NY 😎
I only own about 7 books. I read mainly on my ereader and physical books from the library
I have recently used the book catalog app to track my books. I still have some books I haven't scanned in and I do not count my ebooks on this app. I think I have over 700 books scanned in so far! It is so hard not to add to the "library" or collection.
I have 574 books, so I'm halfway to have a library! lol
I have 1100+ books that have ISBNs. About 600 vintage, old, easton press & franklin.
I never counted my books but at some point I had so many that I needed to put them in a clothes drawer beside my usual book shelfs. I also gave a lot of the old editions but I'm pretty sure I have more than 1000. As an adult I don't buy as often as I used to do as a kid.
oh no! she must now have liked the book I sent 💔 oh well! I tried! Impressive collection Carolyn and another wonderful video, you are basically a librarian now hahah 😃📚
I own about 3 dozen book in paper and at least 500 in my e-reader
The Penguin modern classics box set would be a great addition! Easy way to get to a 1000 👀👌🏻
I have 1,579 books in my home library. That includes cartoon collections (more than 100 by Charles M. Schulz alone). It’s easy for me to get a count, since I keep a list of all my books in a Word document table, and I just need to get the row numbers.
Have fun acquiring your next 33 books.
I didn't count (yet) how many books I have on my shelves. But I have read 248 till now, and my TBR is around 300 (as a fair approximation). Sheers from Lebanon..👋
I think I own between 200-250, but it’s always going up 😅. I am sad to admit that 75% of them I probably have not read yet! I loved this vvideo and itwas fun to see all of your books :-)
I was starting to think I was owning too many books on my shelf but I only own 93 😅
465 books. (Without counting dictionaries).
Not to be that person, but there was a book to the right of your bookshelves on the floor, I think under the Harry Potter shelves, so maybe 1 more... that is a delightful collection and I look forward to the update when you crack 1,000 and have an official library!
Im scared to count my books!! I have so many books in boxes in different sheds (sealed against moisture) and my parent's place... too much work lol.. I might have 1000.. now I'm curious hahaha
85 kindle books & 20 physical books. Mainly buy ebooks due to cost and buy the physical hardbacks copy of my favourite books.
"it's in a weird spot where 8 don't really film" 🤣 Caroline you would literally be in a ladder broadcasting from the top of your closet, i understand why you don't usually film there 😬😊 Ahhh you're so sweet!
Let's gather and let's send Carolyn each one a book so she'll have library! Jk, but not really lol
There was up to 17 celsius in NY at oct 10. Is it cold?😁🙈 It's almost warm
I have about 850 books in my apartment and some are still at my moms, so I guess I’m close to a library too🙈
I made a shelf on Goodreads for the books I own, so I always know how many I have.
I am a die hard public library addict, so my personal collection is only 266. I say only, but I am actually quite satisfied with it. I only want three books currently so that isn't too bad.
I guessed 600 books... way off! That's impressive you have 967!!
I believe the world is coming to an end. Because of this I'd ask kids what major they were interested in and if they said, "computers" I'd give them a copy of the greatest programming book ever. If they said, "Business management" I'd give them my best books I still had from my MBA degree. If they said, "Engineering" I'd give them the book best for their major or one they'd think most towards their special interest, as I have an BSME. I have very few books left, but this year I read 13 books that fell in my top 39 books, so this year I read 1/3rd of my favorite books ever. I had to read 68 books this year so far to be so lucky in quality and probably stopped reading or skimmed over a hundred books so far this year. Oh, so many tangled webs we leave, when first we determine that we'll read, only the best.
These 13 books make this brag possible.
1) “The Insulted and Humiliated” by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2) “Vilette” by Charlotte Brontë
3) “Chesapeake” by James A. Michener
4) “Poland” by James A. Michener
5) “Even If This Love Disappears Tonight” by Misaki Ichijo
6) "Childhood, Boyhood" by Leo Tolstoy
7) “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” by Anne Brontë
8) “Teacher Man” by Frank McCourt
9) “The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte” by Anne Brontë
10) “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
11) "Caribbean" by James A. Michener
12) “Hawaii” by James A. Michener
13) "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Thinking on what to read before years end, add any comments of a book I ought to consider, or book to push from the below:
“Recessional” by James A. Michener
“Even If These Tears Disappear Tonight” by Misaki Ichijo
"Demons" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
“The True Briton” by Philip Wharton
“North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell
"Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
"Citizen Hughes : The Power, the Money and the Madness" by Michael Drosnin
book #14 of the Jane Austen mysteries series entitled "Jane and the Year Without a Summer" by Stephanie Barron
and the New American Standard Bible - NASB (1995)
i only own 189 books as of today but I have books that I ordered before and haven't arrived yet hahahahah it's a small collection but I just got back into reading again so it's probably not going to stay small for long >
Right now I have 369 books which is kinda surprising because it doesn't look like... that much?? Hoping to have enough for my own library one day
I decided to count my books after watching the video and I own 220 books!!
I haven't counted my books, but yesterday I counted the books I haven't read yet, 150! Which I was surprised at as I didn't think I even had that many books! :)
I am sure you must have more books somewhere, like your bags, or in the car, or in the living room, or those books lent to friends 😂
the most shocking part of this video was how much your shelves can hold, wow! they don't look that busy.
Yeah, that’s what you Jack in the Books reckons.
My birthday is also on 15th October
And so far I've read 33 books only.
I have about 100-200 physical books and over 7,000 books on my iPad.
I have no real idea how many books I have, as every cupboard I open seems to have books in plus 10 x 6ft bookcases. I do know I have just donated 90 books to the Charity shop, and so for the first time in a while, I can just about see the pattern on the carpet, after moving a few piles around. Good luck to you all whether you have 10 or 1000 books.
You need to go over to your favourite friends channel and ask her how many she has and she if she has a library 📚 and if you are both short you should have a book 📕 buying race to 1000 books 📚 and your library 📚 prayers and blessings to you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤
I have 355 physical books (74 unread 😂) and 1010 eBooks (162 unread) and 280 audiobooks (44 unread). In 2020 I had over 600 physical books but I’ve downsized those a bit due to space issues 😊.
843 with 4 coming soon. My word! My goal is to have a library so another 153 to go! 📚📚📚📚📚📚
It has been awhile sence i counted my books last time but i guess i have 600-650 books.
Now the question is how much of these 967 books are unread! Idea for new video 😛
Carolyn the Librarian. It rhymes.
I own precisely 585 books and read about 75%, but sadly I don't have them all in one place. Half of them at my parents house, half of them at my place😢
You have to get another 33 books, asap 😂
Ok… the next question is… how many have you read!? This was a fun video! 😅
I crossed the threshold this year. I'm at like 1035.
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
843 books!
Currenty I own 762 physical books (research books for work excluded) and 1723 ebooks. From the ebooks I have read roughly 1500 fron the physical books around 40 %. Btw: I have tried to find out where that idea comes from. Why a 1000? Seems really random. Do you know? I have seen it ghosting around as a "rule"/ notion but nobody mentions a source outside of booktube .
I guess 850!
There's that one book that you didn't count. It's the thick book by itself the floor next to the bottom shelf. It looks like it's brown or tan and standing up. This is in your book room. I think that makes it 968.
Have you counted your ebooks also? :D
I don’t actually have any ebooks :)
Reading 1000 books is 100 books a year for 10 years, which seems a bit much.
Or 50 books a year for 20 years, which is intense dedication...
Or at age 30 (assuming you live to 80), that's 20 books a year for the rest of your life (50 years)
... just trying to put it in perspective.
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Just counted 949
I have never counted them but my guess is around 500
I'm afraid to count mine.
before i watch:
i'm guessing 562 physical books (so not counting e-books or audiobooks)
I said 550 at 10:03 in the video
17:08 i was son wrong 😂😂😂
I had guessed you had 875 books. I was so wrong. 😅 Do you have E-books? I'll count my books and will let you know. Happy reading and happy book shopping while you travel❣📚
And how many of those have you read?
748