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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hundreds, probably over 1000. We have built in bookcases lining a full wall in our family room, another in our living, and in one child’s room. Other child has multiple bookshelves built into the loft bed and two shorter free standing sets. There is barely a free space. I read on my kindle, my husband prefers hard copies and is loathe to get rid of his books. Kids are the same way. I think the elementary age child received no less than 25 books for Christmas all said and done between Santa, two sets of grandparents, siblings gifts, no from aunt/uncle. [/quote]

How often do you go through and cull? And do you have them divided a certain way between rooms? [/quote]

I leave my husband’s alone, he reads 95% nonfiction and often goes back to them, trades with his father, then they will discuss, etc. The kids we purge once a year. I’ve slowly winnowed the picture books down, they used to take up 4 full shelves and I have them down to one now. I’ll do that this weekend since we took down the Christmas decorations last weekend and I can get to the shelves fully again.

This kids are organized by level. So all remaining picture books are on one shelf. The books my son is currently reading or intends to read shortly in the family room are on other shelves. Ones he wants to keep but isn’t reading at this moment are in his room. Another set of shelves is books passed down from our older child we think the younger will eventually want to read. Similar set up for our older child, minus the shelves of passed down books.

My husband’s are organized by topic and chronologically. So all the American Revolution are together, then if the next event is Civil war (making that up for simplicity), those come next on the shelves.

I also have a couple shelves, but not nearly as many. Mine have mostly books given to me by family members who either inscribed them or had them signed for me by the author, so I don’t want to part with them. [/quote]

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