lol I would love to count all of my books again. When I moved into my current house 16 years ago, we estimated my collection at around 1000 books. My dad joked that next time I was getting movers for the books. At the time, I had 2 small children that were just starting their own collections and I hadn't yet become a volunteer at my local library bookstore so I think it is safe to say that my house contains similar numbers to yours. I will report back when I have actually counted. :)

Elves visiting the American States is such an interesting idea !! Entertaining while teaching about the US and its different cultures, this is lovely ☺

If i counted the books i have I'd go crazy and have to do a huge book un hual

I want to do this so bad! Great idea!

I own probably about a thousand books (maybe a little less than that). They are mainly science fiction and fantasy and some on birds and astronomy. There are also guides to nature such as those about the national parks and astronomy. They are mostly books by C. S. Lewis and Tolkien and some old college textbooks. I was an English major in college and I still use my guides to literature for reference. I have a couple on C.S. Lewis that were written by my former professor, who passed away a few months ago.

I am a lightweight reader…only about 563 books in my house.

We (family of 3) have about 1500 books, about half of them are mine 😅 Nowadays I keep only the books I want to read, I can't really add any more shelf space so some of the books have to leave.

I haven't counted my books, but I am planning on doing it soon, am currently working on re-arranging and organising them. Still, pretty sure I don't have nearly as many books as you. Your book collection/library is goals! 🙂

This is actually insane🙀. So many books😭❤️. This made me count my own books which is so less in number but still. I own almost 350 books.

Cool beans, because I love counts! Currently my husband & I have 1,623 physical books on shelves according to LibraryThing. About 600 are his and the rest mine. We also have 163 books packed away (not part of the 1,623) that belong to our adult son living in the UK. LibraryThing is pretty accurate because it allows you to add books by ISBN number. So you can have multiple editions of the same book, as long as it's a different ISBN. You can even list the same ISBN twice; it just warns you that it's a duplicate, but you can add details (like where & when you got it) to distinguish the duplicates. LT allows you to export to a spreadsheet, so last year I did just that and did an "audit" to find every book on the list & books on the shelves that weren't on the list--I ended up adding about 40 books. It took a few days to complete that project. I have recorded all of my textbooks, including my music textbooks & bound scores. I don't record sheet music, but I do record hard bound hymns, folksongs, etc. I also record individual issues of journals--we have many issues of Chicago History Magazine, which comes out quarterly. Right now I have 489 books as TBR; I started 2024 with 542 TBR, so I feel pretty good to see that number go down.

We only have about 500, up until this video I though that was a lot. Very impressive.

7:22 - "Math, people, just . . . math." Speaking of personal libraries, I've been boxing up my books because I am moving (I think you and I have probably about the same amount of books) and the amount of math books I have is uncountable, but I'm sure that if I pulled them all together, they could fill a full bookcase. I love math. I probably have as many math books as I do poetry. Lots of books full of differentials and problems in topology and matrices and rings & fields and whatnot (I love solving math problems). Though, neither the math nor the poetry probably come close to the amount of classic novels in paperback form I have. Maybe combined they do, but my classic novels, and classics in general, easily make up more than half of my books. I'm not holding a large stock of gift books for anyone in particular like you are for your nieces, but I do have duplicates of personal favorites to gift to people should the occasion arise. I have three copies of Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," for example, and I own several copies of "War & Peace". I actually wrote a piece on my blog not too long ago about the unique roll duplicates can play in one's own library. And duplicates aside, I gift books out from my library all the time; my friend's favorite composer is Tchaikovsky, and so I gave him a biography I had read about Tchaikovsky for his birthday recently. I have lots of books on music as well, but there's no way I have as many music books as you because I'm not a musician, but merely an enthusiast. There are very specific composers I want to learn, and I pick up sheet music when I can, but I hardly ever see the stuff I want to play in the music sections of stores. What I wouldn't do to have the sonatas of Scriabin for instance, or anything containing Ravel's Concerto for Left Hand, or a big book of Prokofiev's Conertos, Sonatas and the Scythian Suite. Or that Lidberg Concerto 3 he wrote specifically for my favorite living pianist, Yuja Wang, who evidently has identical taste in composers as I do. I recently, finally, found sheet music of Erik Satie's full "Gnossienes" and "Gymnopedies", and I have two of the Norton Anthologies of Classical music - you know, with the spiral binding? I have some of the Gershwins and I have a book of my beloved Chopin, but it doesn't have all of the Nocturnes. (Can you tell I'm piano-oriented of late?) My friend Hannah Joyner - @HannasBooks here on KZbin - and I were bonding through shared favorite composers at the beginning of this month and it has made me think it would do me some good to learn some Copland, since I like him so much. I have plenty of monographs on music theory like Tchaikovsky's book on harmony or Tochs' "The Shaping Forces of Music" or the great music history book, "The History of Musical Style" by Crocker, and biographies. I've just picked up Swafford's biography of Mozart, which I wanted to read the year it came out, but the year it did so, everything was closed, including bookstores, and for good reason, but I did miss a lot of the books I had been looking forward to. John Eliot Garner's biography of Bach has been in my personal library for ages, because I became infatuated with Bach while reading Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach" and I read books about each of Hofstadter's principle human subjects cand Gardner's book on Bach was one of the books I read. I've always wanted to read Albert Schweitzer's book on Bach, but I never see it anywhere. I've also got a handful of books on jazz music as well as blues, and a few books on independent/indie/underground rock (I grew up in the pacific northwest, so it's in the DNA of my musical formation).

How many books do YOU own? Are you more of a minimalist and like to keep a small bookshelf? Or are you a collector with carefully curated special editions? Or you do have a house full of books in every room?

Thanks. I couldn’t remember the dragon riders of Pern.

I am so grateful this is here. Years ago I was so curious about this author and super slowly more has become easily available and now, yay, a real human discussing books by her and not a A.I. summary reading or whatever it was I saw, not sure. Thank you! This is such a relief to find!

aw this is so cuteee

I love these videos. A Lady of Quality for a lady of quality...

Thank you so much for the shout out! 🙏💗 It is greatly appreciated. And hooray for analitical brains. As an analytical person, I don't stay for feelings/emotions. However, I understand I'm an anomaly. LOL I stay for the books and the reviews on the books. For your channel it's the classics. =) and sometimes your sweet nieces, and seeing their relationship with books. (especially your older niece).

I have always loved your videos. I am sure that many people have learned to love reading books because of your channel. Please continue to make the videos. We all love books so much because of your reviews and enthusiastic recommendations of them. :)

I like being in this community.

Loved this video!

I use the bigger bookmarks for the bigger books, because sometimes the smaller ones get lost in the pages. I like a little bit of my bookmarks to stick out of the top, but my son doesn't. He hides his bookmarks ini books he's reading. That's a really good unhaul of bookmarks.

"how did it get here?" shrugs, mumbles, "I dunno." in the get rid of pile it goes.

I keep coming back because you are passionate about reading and speak from the heart. I've never felt like I belong anywhere. But I'm a passionate book lover. Your videos are very informative and catch my interest, though to my shame I often pass the long ones. You actually friended me on Goodreads once and that touched me. I've just gone back on there and sometimes a smile or an act of kindness is all we need. Keep smiling and keep promoting books.

I think you're on the right track. I've enjoyed watching your channel for years because you have a very pleasant and joyous way about you and an infectious love of books that just makes me feel calm and happy. ❤Hope you have a happy day❤

Hello Kaylie. I’m 63 now. I was a 20 year old when I first read this Classic. I needed it very much at that time, as my parents were divorcing, and my family was splitting among the siblings. This is long before the Internet and people took more time to read. I am looking forward to reading it at this point in my life, as my parents are both past this last year, as has a few sisters. I want to read this classic on the point of the path that I’m on at this age, it will be an interesting contrast from 43 years ago. I remember how much I love this, and how much move me, and I remember the revenge… But I also remember very moving scenes, so I’m looking forward to this, thanks for this quick review! Doug from Denver.

I have more than 120. I just counted the ones in a mug. I have more in books and on another shelf.

Maybe your nieces would want some of your bookmarks.

I have the Celtic one too, but the bead fell off. I do need to go through mine, but my mom once said I had too many bookmarks.

As someone who makes and sells bookmarks, I immediately cringed!😂 But as also someone who hoards bookmarks myself, I think my cup could use a little sort.😂 Loved this!❤

I am exactly like you with my own book 📕 marks aswell

This was fun to watch. We clean out books but it’s good to clear out book adjacent clutter too, I may film my own version! 😊

I have tons of leather bookmarks that my mom picked up on her many trips to Britain. She would buy them at the gift shops of places she visited. My normal way of getting rid of misc. bookmarks I don't want to keep, is to put them in books that I donate to library sales or Little Free libraries.

Finally! I found someone who hoards bookmarks just like me😅 I even make bookmarks for my students for children's day every year 😊

You could cut them up and then make a collage in your reading journal. 😊 I have 3 bookmarks. My fave is a hair bow that feel off my poodle and she started chewing to where it was just a flat ribbon with teeth marks. It brings me smiles when I use it. 😂

Thanks for the inspiration! I went and cleaned out my bookmark mug. I have a tin of book darts that I use instead of those post-it book tabs to mark special passages in books.

Boo for the DNFs. 😔😔

Thank you for the shout out 🥰 Sorry you ended up with so many dnf’s, hope your November reading is better

I agree with you on reasons for DNFing a book. I have some things I do not compromise on and also if I don't care about what is happening, I will stop in the middle of a chapter, page, or even sentence. As I get older, I'm finding that I put up with a lot less in books. Too many good books out there to waste time ☺

I guess you can’t win them all! Sorry you had so many DNF’s!

Edward also fall in love with a girl

Wow! Timely video! I just finished “the curates awakening” a couple months ago and this month I started the last of the three in that series. It’s so nice to know others still know about him and read him too. I’m curious if you had to read it again which copy would you pick up-the edited or original? I was first introduced to the “modern” versions, and I’ve read over half of them….but now I feel like I should read the originals to be a true fan haha Have you read many others? The Shepherd’s Castle might be my favorite :)

I love the movie version of An Ideal Husband with Minnie Driver. Such a fun one! Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered LEtters looks interesting. I've never read George MacDonald because I am afraid he might have a really dry writing style. I've read one book by him and enjoyed it (Phantastes) but want to tackle more.

How kind of you!! 😮 Thank you very much for this unexpected shoutout and all the best for your channel! 😊🍁

Looking forward to reading some of these amazing books 📚 ❤❤❤

I remember reading The Curate’s Awakening, which we have in our church library. The George MacDonald Anthology by C. S. Lewis I have owned for years and I keep it for handy reference of MacDonald’s best quotes. I highly recommend both of these books especially if you love both MacDonald and C. S. Lewis. They thought so much alike that it is easy to how MacDonald influenced Lewis! :)

I’m rereading this book. I did a reread of his books the last two years. I started reading Dickens when I was young so it’s been many, many decades of rereading. It’s been a long time since I reread this one though and I kept it to the end. Interestingly, I’ve read it much less than the others (I think I only read it once) and I know I didn’t like it, but I don’t remember why. 😳😂 So, I guess I’m going to find out. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

I’ve only read one Trollope so far- The Belton Estate. I did like it, but I’m not sure when I will get to more by him.

This is such a fun idea!

Please post the list, just find out about the Project Gutenberg I'm elated to be able to read all of these books for free