How many books does your elementary child own? How many do you and spouse have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Early on in our marriage, my spouse wanted to open a used bookshop in later life. This romantic thought propelled us to acquire and keep quite a few books in the decade preceding our DD birth. Fast forward to today, our DD is 10 and we no longer have that dream. In an attempt to de-clutter our home, we’ve reduced our home library from 2 thousand to about 500 for us and our DD has about 50 (books, not kids books).

We have discovered that DD is a habit that is there only when we are on top of requesting her to read, otherwise the iPad takes over.

That’s a cute story! And nice of you to put up with your spouse’s habits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate hoarders

I don’t like hoarding either but sounds like some PPs have what used to be called home libraries. Sad that books are considered clutter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate hoarders

Not hoarders. Readers with a home library.

[Anonymous]

A house full of books as long as they are not the Bible is a home.

A house with a Bible is a indoctrination space

Given were we are politically Americans cannot read cognitively we failed our children

[Anonymous]

For people with many books, is that a guess or do you keep track? And I’m curious if anyone uses a scanner, website, spreadsheet or anything to keep track of how many books and which titles you have?

[Anonymous]

we donate our books after reading them we don't keep them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably thousands. Don’t want to count…collections of great niche books passed down (mountaineering), multiple grad degrees, now so many kids books, of which I would say 90 percent are read every six months. So many bookshelves.

DH grew up in a bookless house so I’ll take the blame for this!

how much room does this take?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate hoarders

Not hoarders. Readers with a home library.

Library? Why would you need that? It's a book hoard.

[Anonymous]

Why is number of books you own so important? We go to the library every week. My child has likely read more books than yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Early on in our marriage, my spouse wanted to open a used bookshop in later life. This romantic thought propelled us to acquire and keep quite a few books in the decade preceding our DD birth. Fast forward to today, our DD is 10 and we no longer have that dream. In an attempt to de-clutter our home, we’ve reduced our home library from 2 thousand to about 500 for us and our DD has about 50 (books, not kids books).

We have discovered that DD is a habit that is there only when we are on top of requesting her to read, otherwise the iPad takes over.

That's sad. My kids (9 and 11) don't have their own iPad. They both read for pleasure. They have maybe 150 books between the two of them, but they also go to the library at least once a week, so there are always new books around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate hoarders

Not hoarders. Readers with a home library.

Library? Why would you need that? It's a book hoard.

We read the books. They aren't merely shelved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate hoarders

I don’t like hoarding either but sounds like some PPs have what used to be called home libraries. Sad that books are considered clutter.

They can be if you don’t plan on reading them again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate hoarders

I don’t like hoarding either but sounds like some PPs have what used to be called home libraries. Sad that books are considered clutter.

They can be if you don’t plan on reading them again.

I think most people here have said they do read them again. I do have some books on my shelves I have never read, but I like having some extra there in case I feel like reading or want to grab a book for a trip.

[Anonymous]

At least hundreds. My kids use the library a lot, too. But the library doesn’t have everything. My 10 yo got at least 20 books for Christmas— mostly used, and mostly books from series she likes but are out of print and/or aren’t at our local libraries.

[Anonymous]

Hundreds, my son loves books and frequently rereads them. We also get lots of books from the library and pass along books that he isn't going to reread.