How many books are in your queue?

[InYourFaceNewYorker]

I'm sure most of us here are book nerds. I have a notorious habit of buying a lot of books at once and not reading them right away... because I have other books to read! I just counted about 70 books that I have on my shelf and haven't yet read! What about the rest of you?

Julie

[sciwoman]

Seventy sounds about right.

[InYourFaceNewYorker]

I just recounted... it's exactly 80... including two books in Spanish. :D

[Varangian]

Oh, at least 50. I could stop buying books today and still have enough to keep me going for a couple of years.

[InYourFaceNewYorker]

Actually, it will be 81 once my copy of The Atheist's Guide to Christmas--which I had to resort to getting off ebay because it's not available in the US-- gets here

[j.mills]

About 250. But they're all really really important!

[Delphin]

About 270

[Thurston]

I thought my 34 was a problem that had spiralled out of control. Seeing how some people have 250+, I guess I have some justification for buying more.

[sciwoman]

Now I don't feel so bad about having 70+ books waiting to be read.

[pcCoder]

On the shelves/in boxes, ~300. If I count ebooks, ~400 give or take. I get most from yard sells, thrift shops, eBay, libraries (Oops, I lost a book, how much is it going to cost me to replace it? Really, only $5 dollars? Okay.). Topics vary, including, math, science, photography, manuals and references, computers, etc. I digitize them when possible.

[Darkchilde]

Over 300 books. I can't stop getting books. And if I start with my usual reading rhythm, well, they will be gone quite easily, most of them. There are a number of books, I need to take my time with.

Nowadays, due to my studies don't have as much time as I used to for reading. And lately i am having a very hectic schedule, and my reading has slowed to a crawl (even less than a crawl).

[Spinozasgalt]

I have something like 60. I usually end up with four more whenever I go to the bookstore (plus some on order), so I try not to go more often than is absolutely necessary.

[James5D]

I'm sure most of us here are book nerds. I have a notorious habit of buying a lot of books at once and not reading them right away... because I have other books to read! I just counted about 70 books that I have on my shelf and haven't yet read! What about the rest of you?

Julie

O dear, as I read your post, I was thinking....darn, yup, that's me !......but 70.....80 even.....geez, I think I'm at about 8 on a quick glance at my book shelf next to me !

I was going to read The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black next, but as it's been slated so badly, it has slipped down the pile a bit...maybe to 6th or 7th place.

[Conny]

hmmm... and i thought the 50 or so i had was bad.
Had about 30 before travelling to London recently. There i picked up a dozen or so more and i just got another dozen from a friend leaving town.

Then there are a few dozen more i keep close by because i think i'll get to read them again...sometime...

[Dal8077]

...and I thought it was just me who buys books and shelves them (with the good intention of reading them though) Ermm...about 120+ (excluding textbooks).

My latest purchase was the Portable Atheist, selected readings, intro by Christpher Hitchens.

[Cpt_pineapple]

Let's see here:


Mia Bloom: Dying to kill, the allure of suicide terror [Currently reading.]

Scott Atran: In Gods we trust

Michio Kaku: Pysics of the Impossible

Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene

Marc Sageman: Understanding Terror networks

Marc Sageman: Leaderless Jihad

Daniel Dennet: Freedom Evolves

Daniel Dennet: Sweet Dreams


I think that covers it

[MAPN]

Sitting at work, not actually looking at my shelves at home, but just thinking about it, I came up with twenty before I stopped counting.

Hey, it's okay, I'm getting some work done. Just taking a break.

[drl2]

Too many.

Not enough.

These are not contradictory statements.

Economic conditions have forced me to start considering the library rather than the bookstore, though, so at least I less frequently have to make the painful decision to get rid of a book I don't have room for.

[Russell]

Not that many, got some large-ish books I want to read so I'm not looking that far ahead but after christmas these shouldbe on by to read list

The Elizabethan Secret Services
Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history
Russia's War
How Pathogenic Viruses Work
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944
Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England

[la bella fortuna]

Literally hundreds... I figure I could read for years on what I've accumulated.

Yet strangely, more keep finding their way in...

Oh well. More for the stack...

[Aca]

20-ish, with more on the way.

[I'm With Stupid]

16, not including text books. Doesn't sound like a lot, but as a percentage of the books I actually own, it's quite a lot. I have a very low attention span, so several of them are about 2 or 3 chapters in, and I'll probably have to re-read those chapters to remember what's going on anyway.

[Szymanowski]

Ah, so that's the secret of the friends of mine who have unbelievably large and dense bookshelves - they will read them "sometime"

[Mazille]

Fortunately I have successfully avoided buying a now book in over two weeks. Also I was a little short on funds before this summer, so the pile shrunk a bit at that time.. I'm at 74 books right now.

[j.mills]

Mind you, I've a friend with well over a thousand on his numerous 'Unread' piles...