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Who else is reaching into the farthest corners of their book shelves to find books they have yet to read? 🙋‍♀️With this Coronavirus thing and being stuck in my house most of the time I know I am!! Must make them last😬

I feel like I've finally prepared for something. I've stacked up on a ton of books over the past couple of years. I've been asking for books for gifts and using gift cards and I seem to have a stock pile. I must have about 30 to read. I'm also a thrift shop shopper so I've bought a lot of used books.

What does "enough" mean? I love books too much to ever have enough...rofl. I did stock up from the library the last day it was open, but I totally feel your pain Juliette. Have you ever tried audio books. There are lots of free options for them.

Enough? There are NEVER enough books. ;-)

I thought I did, but then the virus hit and all libraries closed. Turned out I only had about 5-6 unread books at home - not nearly enough! I've moved around a lot in my life and I hate carrying boxes of books up and down stairs so I'm not looking to have a Personal Library, but I'm definitely considering upping my pile of unread books as soon as thrift stores open again.

I have at least 140 books I own that I have still yet to read.... I'm all set for at least 4 years, I reckon! Not to mention that I usually buy about 5 books a month too... :')

I would also recommend a couple book swapping websites. I like Paperbackswap.com and Bookmooch.com. You post some old books that you would be happy to give away and you can earn points to order books you want. All it requires is going to the Post Office to mail books, but if you're not comfortable with that you can print postage at home.

And of course online book companies are still shipping, or at least some of them are. I like to order used books from Amazon, Abebooks, Thiftbooks, or Biblio.

I haven't checked out the Little Free Libraries in my area, but those are also worth checking out. You leave a book and you take a book. The selection is obviously limited but you never know what you're going to find.

If Goodwill or Salvation Army is open in your area they often have used books also.

And heck, if it comes down to it, ask your friends and neighbors if they have any books they can loan you.

It's definitely an advantage to only and exclusively read e-books (and the rare audiobook) :p I could survive an apocalypse and never run out of options... at least as long as I have access to the Internet :D

Would've been nice to have had the time to swap some of the picturebooks for my son though... We (read: mommy here) is getting sick of flipping through The Very Hungry Caterpillar lol

RJ from the LBC wrote: "Enough? There are NEVER enough books. ;-)"
I agree with you! I feel like I'm going to run out way too soon :(

RJ from the LBC wrote: "I would also recommend a couple book swapping websites. I like Paperbackswap.com and Bookmooch.com. You post some old books that you would be happy to give away and you can earn points to order boo..."

My favourite thing for the past few months is the Book Swap Central group on Facebook... Take a picture of the books you no longer want, and if anyone wishes to have a book or two from that pile, they then post a picture of their unwanted books in the thread for you to pick from! :D

Carissa wrote: "RJ from the LBC wrote: "I would also recommend a couple book swapping websites. I like Paperbackswap.com and Bookmooch.com. You post some old books that you would be happy to give away and you can ..."

That's cool :)

I definitely have enough books stockpiled for this quarantine. I have a bookcase completely full with unread books. I believe over 200. On top of that, I have like 70 more on my kindle yet to read.

That's not to say I'm not feeling the loss of my local bookstores and thriftstores being closed. Everytime I see petty cash in my purse, I can't help but want to drive to Goodwill to see what treasures I will find, only to be reminded that I can't go. T_T

As for the question, Do I have enough books? According to my mother, yes. According to my bookcase dedicated to unread books, yes. According to my logical side, yes. According to my book-loving/hoarding fetish, no. Never. Impossible to have enough.

I can ride out this quarantine even if it lasts for over a year or well beyond.

It's not just the overall number of books that I'm fortunate enough to have at home, but the fact that most of them can be re-read multiple times and won't become stale and boring. And some of them are the kinds of books that can be re-read endlessly and never age a day, because there's always something new to be found.

DaytimeRiot wrote: "I can ride out this quarantine even if it lasts for over a year or well beyond.

It's not just the overall number of books that I'm fortunate enough to have at home, but the fact that most of them..."

Right! I have three bookcases of books I've read that I would love to reread! Which is why I still have them.

No pains here. I am the manager of our local library and although we're closed, of course, I have the keys. :-D
(I still go to work, there is plenty to do behind the scenes).

But 'enough books' is an oxymoron, isn't it?

Yeah, I figure that I'll probably have to read books on my tablet pretty soon, which I don't love to do. It's just so cumbersome for me to hold. I'm no technophobe or tekkie luddite, but I definitely would take a hardcover or paperback over an ebook any day.

I wonder if anybody is like me, in that some people who come over my house (when we're not sheltering-in-place, that is!) probably have no real idea how much I love to read, because my bookshelves are very small. And that's because the books I read almost entirely come from libraries.

I can never have enough books says the person who owns over six-thousand books. And yes paperbacks and hardcovers included. I know obsessive.

Angel wrote: "I can never have enough books says the person who owns over six-thousand books. And yes paperbacks and hardcovers included. I know obsessive."

Six-thousand books is nowhere near too many. That's simply a good library...

...this coming from a person who has, at last count, 10,000+ individual volumes (hardback and paperback).

DaytimeRiot wrote: "Angel wrote: "I can never have enough books says the person who owns over six-thousand books. And yes paperbacks and hardcovers included. I know obsessive."

Six-thousand books is nowhere near too ..."
Yes. My very own library. My thoughts exactly. And ten-thousand. Wow! There's always room for more.

So you all really are my people. My daughter came home from college and commented that no matter where she turns, there is a book or two or a small stack... I thought supporting my local books store would be a good idea during the Pandemic, and so I used a gift card, and added one extra (or two.... oof.. was it 3?) and someone delivered books to my mailbox the next day! Dune has been staring at me for years, so I know I’ll try to tackle that one. I’ll definitely check out that Facebook group swap page.
So do I have enough books? Well, enough? Ooh. Yeah. But not really:)

Angel wrote: "Yes. My very own library. My thoughts exactly. And ten-thousand. Wow! There's always room for more."

Like you said, there's always room for more. I'm aiming for at least 65-70,000+ by the end of my life. All fields; about anything and everything, as long as they meet my standards.

Many of my literary heroes had libraries of a comparable number. Paul Celan had to have two separate houses just to store his books because he had so many (and he died before he turned 50).

I have so many books in my bedroom and in my brother’s bedroom and downstairs

I have tons of books I own at least 700 that I have not read. That's not including the 250 left on my ereader. I'm stocked up right now I'm going through my bookshelves by shelf and reading anything I haven't.

@Kay Hawkins, I’m doing the same thing, and I’m probably going to have to order some from Barnes and Noble soon