Collector or Reader?

[Tito_Villa]

With collecting, over the past few months i have really scaled down. I supose that is what getting your own place will do to you!

[Dave1442397]

What defines a hoarder? I must have at least 6,000 books in the house by now, and I don't buy anywhere near what I used to. I think I just need a bigger house

[bsaenz24]

What defines a hoarder? I must have at least 6,000 books in the house by now, and I don't buy anywhere near what I used to. I think I just need a bigger house

You're right on the money. A hoarder is just a collector who needs more space.

[Tito_Villa]

Christ 6,000 books? Really?

[Dan Hocker]

What defines a hoarder? I must have at least 6,000 books in the house by now, and I don't buy anywhere near what I used to. I think I just need a bigger house

Holy crapy! I'm not entirely shure we have many more than that in the warehouse right now.

[bsaenz24]

Holy crapy! I'm not entirely shure we have many more than that in the warehouse right now.

That's because you guys foolishly send your lovely books away!!! LOL!!

[Dave1442397]

Christ 6,000 books? Really?

I'd say that's a low estimate, really. I brought over 2,000 with me from Ireland in the early '90s, and when I first came to the US I went nuts buying books. I used to hit the bookstore every Tuesday at lunchtime (the new books came in on Tuesday) and I would easily buy 10+ books a week. I've slowed down a lot now, mainly because our local library is so good, but I still bought at least 30 books in the past month.

I'd love to catalog all the books and see what I have. I bought a barcode scanner and software years ago that was supposed to help with that, but I found that it wouldn't scan any of the older books from the UK, and even the newer books were a problem because you had to pick the right edition from a list pulled back from the Internet.

[Tito_Villa]

If i had that many books my girlfriend would make my life a misery!

[Ben Staad]

If i had that many books my girlfriend would make my like a misery!

I just did a quick estimate of what I have and it's around 300! I'm out of room with this number so congrats to Dave for literally having a library in his house.

[mhatchett]

Try Librarything. I have most of my collection on there. It's pretty good.
Mike

[peteOcha]

Try Librarything. I have most of my collection on there. It's pretty good.
Mike

Sounds interesting and useful. I'll have to check it out.

And 6000 books! I'd like to reach that number some day...

[Antmusic]

Librarything helps me keep mine straight!

[mhatchett]

Hey,
We can Friend up on librarything if Y'all want.
http://www.librarything.com/profile/mhatchett

[Grant Wootton]

Hi Mike - Appreciate your sharing the librarything link, I've been procrastinating and generally dithering about cataloguing my modest collection for some time now, and you've provided a bottler of an answer - sweeeet

[goathunter]

I spent Saturday culling books from my collection. Just too many for the space I have. And I still have books sitting on the floor waiting for some place to go.....

Hunter