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deleted_user 08/09/2008

I just have to move out of my home and into a friend house. While it was trying to pack all my treasures I have gathered I realized I had 10 good size boxes filled with books! Everything from the books my kids had when they were young to cookbooks, history, how toobooks,(even a set of encyclopedias from 1968, oh that would make it 12 boxes. I foud books everywhere. And I had read them all!
Everyone thinks I am crazy, suggested I give them away. I love my books and I am keeping all of them. Maybe the encyclopdia can go but ..not the rest.
Does anyone else hoard books? I am upset I cant display them anymore.

deleted_user 11/07/2008

Suev What is Bookcrssing what do u do there
Thanks

79pounds 11/10/2008

some people open a book exchange shop because they are hoarders of books. i have too many myself. but i like them. they are like old friends. i get a lot from having them. books are beautiful.

splash62 11/23/2008

I was getting to know a woman last year. One day she was looking around my home with it's bookshelves and piles of books and she said, somewhat sniffily, " I don't know how people find the time to read."
We didn't become friends. Absolutely nothing in common.

deleted_user 12/01/2008

I used to have lots of books but over the years passed them on to charities or if a friend liked a particular book. I just found that storing and transporting them so difficult. Transporting them was awful, books are so heavy if you have to lift them. Now my books are from the library, much cheaper too although annoying if I have to wait for a popular book.

deleted_user 12/28/2008

Yesss. I'm a total book junkie. I would love to have just a room devoted to books in the house... a cool library with the sliding ladders and everything!

deleted_user 01/04/2009

My whole family hoards books! It gets a little extreme, so we take them to a charity used book barn that we know of. The books are sold at a nominal cost, the money goes to charity. However... we usually find some More books there, and so the problem continues... :)

deleted_user 01/05/2009

It is good to know that so many other people have this "bookaholic" syndrome!!! :)

Ellie...I love your quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Browneyestarshine...how horrible that you lost your house & books. I am so sorry!

deleted_user 02/24/2010

I know this is an old, old post but I just joined this group and this one caught my eye. I too am a book-aholic. I have <literally> <no double pun intended> about 5,000 books. When I moved homes last year the movers said they had *never* moved anyone with so many boxes labelled "books." In my admittedly-weak defense, at one time I did own a used books store and still have some of the leftover stock. But my own personal collection is almost equally out of control. I might open another bookstore soon, I'm getting laid off and, hey, I have the stock anyway!

NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY BOOKS. ;-)

deleted_user 11/20/2010

I too am a book collector. My bedroom doubles as a library. I actually need a ladder to get to the books on the upper shelves. I sell some back to the used booksores, but there is a lot of them that I would never give up. (I don't even want to imagine having a fire!!)

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