Get out those measuring tapes…how big is it?

Your book collection.

I thought this was a fun/silly thing to chat about and wanted to share it here.

I use the My Library app on Android to catalog my personal collection (less than 800 books but growing)

Do you ever ‘weed’ your collection? What’s your ratio of print to ebooks? Do you collect in certain subject area(s)? From where do you acquire? (used bookstores, online, new bookstores, etc.)

Thanks for sharing!

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
    2•15 hours ago

    Around 55 cubic feet, or 2 cubic meters. That’s about 20% over the capacity of our bookshelves, so we weed regularly but we also keep getting more books. On top of that I read about six full-length ebooks a month and another physical book from the library.

    We buy some new but also swap books via the local mutual aid networks. All the ebooks I get from my friend Roger, he’s very jolly. And Dolly Parton sends my youngest child a book every month because she’s cool like that.