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Actually my library is closer to 10,000.

• laxatives 12y ago
  How do you maintain such a library? Do you devote a portion of your house? I always thought I had a pretty sizable library, but its probably <1000 books (and probably <500). As of now, its basically one book shelf with 5 rows, 2 of which are filled with paperbacks and two books deep (the other rows are larger books, including textbooks and only a single book deep) and another drawer filled with things that are in my reading queue, maybe 50 books total. I'm still rather young (I just graduated undergrad in December), but I can't imagine having a library of 10,000 books without a sizable portion of my life revolving around maintaining such a monstrosity. It must have cost you a small fortune to acquire 10,000 books and a room to house all of them in anything but cardboard boxes.
  • laxatives 12y ago
    I just got home and I'm looking at this book shelf now and there's probably less than 150 books here. I'm just incredulous that you can have a 10,000 book library without being incredibly eccentric and wealthy, or maybe a well off professor or book fanatic. 10,000 books must take at least 1000 sq ft to store (assuming you arrange in such a way that these books are accessible, not just piled 8 feet high in storage boxes) -- realistically probably double or triple that if you wanted a place to sit down and do all of this reading, unless you have extremely high ceilings and a rolling ladder. I just did some quick googling, and your assertion is the equivalent of owning 1/5 of a smaller sized Barnes & Noble, the smallest of which are around 3000 sq feet, or a fairly large detached 3 story home with maybe 4-5 bedrooms in a suburban area. Yes, Barnes and Noble doesn't organize it efficiently for storage, but for display, my point still stands that 10,000 books in a personal library is extreme.