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Just catalog all my books and realized I am short 100 books from being a official library. (lemmy.world)
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I was told if you have 1000 books you are official library. I just catalog all the books me and my wife have and it came out at 900. If I included books I have duplicates in I would have 913 books. So close but so far away. I look forward to expanding my collection. But at same time I wouldn't mind having this whole collection in ebook form so that I could travel and still have access to all my books.

How many books do anyone here on this instance have?

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I have a few hundred, but only about 100 of those are actually on shelves and not in boxes waiting to be donated to the library for one of their book sales. And those on display are mostly textbooks I want to keep around, and cookbooks, and a shelf of comics.

But my ebook collection is in the neighborhood of 120,000. Way back in the day I downloaded a HUGE pack of sci-fi, and another huge pack of fantasy. Sadly nothing more recent than like 15 years ago, though.

It’s overkill big time in that it would take me several lifetimes to read them all even if I managed a book every single day. Just about 330 years not including the comics.