I specifically try to keep the number of physical books I own to a minimum, mainly by borrowing and giving away/selling them. I also moved some two years ago, that’s alway a push to “diet” more.

This being said, I still have way too many books. I’d guesstimate some 120 leisure books (read some 80-90) and some 20 work books (read/studied all of them). Some 50 virtual ones, read all but two I’m currently reading.

Physical: Somewhere beyond 10k. There is the living room with 50m of shelving for novels, etc. There is the studio with the professional books of my wife and me, and there is a large amount of books stored in cardboard boxes in the attic and the basement. And yes, apart from my wifes’ professional books, I’ve read them. Including the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Digital: My digital library has close to 15k books at the moment.

I feel like it’s likely 2% of people with 600 books each, and 98% of people having 3.

For me the answer that I need to clean my apartment. I have 8 on the kitchen island, 3 on the couch, ~80 on the shelf, ~80 more in the big drawers, and 7 in a big stack in the bedroom. And, I just discovered, 2 on the floor.

Completely off-topic, but I hate that we use averages for everything. Mode or median would be better for this because then you have a better picture of how many books people generally get - people like y’all with 100+ books throw off that average just as badly as people like me who have like, 3 books lol.

62, I just counted. For someone in a tiny flat, who had one rucksack of possessions to their name when they moved in, I think that’s pretty good.

I used to have several Billy bookcases full but homelessness is a bitch.

Books made out of actual trees? Probably 10-20 (double that if you count technical books/manuals).

eBooks: 300-400 (maybe more?)

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Hundreds. Maybe 1000.

I think you’re going to find higher than average numbers here vs. the general public.

E books: over 800 (read like 50 😭) Physical books: around 300?

High hundreds for sure, maybe about 1000. Some on bookcases, some in boxes, some stacked on the floor.

I probably have about 150. I’m getting so many more. I asked for at least 5 specific books for Christmas already lol. I got all of the Terry Pratchett books during the pandemic but took a break from reading them to start the R.A Salvatore books. There are so many of those as well lol

A little over 87 shelf-feet of physical books, so over a thousand for me. My spouse prefers e-books and audiobooks and he’s a hoarder, so at least another 1000 for him.

Physical: about 100.
Ebooks: several dozen.
Audiobooks: a couple dozen.

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Physical, actual books? Probably less than 10. I’m one of those heathens that didn’t mine adopting ebooks and audiobooks. I’ve moved somewhere around 20 times, and eventually it just became easier to shift everything to digital and donate my physical books.