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Erinwilcox said:
Now, for my secular library. Should I even start? Alright, I have this belief that says that all of the good books in the world are going out of style and that by the time that I have children there will be none left. Thus. . .I have been buying up all of the good classic books that I can find since I was young. I have hundreds of excellent literary works that I am saving for my children someday. I admit, book buying is a passion of mine. Whenever I see a good book, whether or not I already own it, the book literally calls to me saying, "Buy me! Buy me, Erin! Don't let me be wasted, I want to be owned and loved!" I find this call practically impossible to resist. I have doubles and triples of books like LOTR (anybody want a copy?), Pride and Prejudice, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and others. But, I have a huge library filled with awesome books. I have the Mildred Keith books, Anne of Green Gables, Sherlock Holmes, most of Jules Verne's books, and sooo many more. I have said, in the past (and to the amusement of friends), "Why go to places like Disney World when I could be spending all of that good money on books?" I'm a lost cause. But!!! do not fret about the cost of all of these, I buy them mostly at library book sales (huge bag of books for a dollar. . .). But, do NOT bring me into a bookstore...my sister will tell you that I literally have to be dragged out!

I'm the same way. My mother hates taking Dad and me to to bookstore, especially Half Price Books. By the way, if you have a Half Price nearby, go there often. They have a very good variety of used books, and they get more all the time so if you go often enough you can collect quite a few gems. And they're usually pretty cheap, and in decent condition. Especially the classics. My father and I will spend all day there if we are not forcibly dragged out.
 
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My library is pretty pitiful, but over the years I've read a sizable portion of the public library. I'd say I've got about 400-500 books, maybe more. It's hard to count, since it's spread out over at least 3 locations: my dorm, my room at home, and the family bookshelves. Oh, and the stacks of books I've built on various desks, tables, and floors. Shelf space is scarce. The content is very eclectic, including classics, literary journals, fantasy/sci-fi, history and economics, theology, polemical books, poetry, and technical books.
 
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Paleoconservatarian said:
I'm the same way. My mother hates taking Dad and me to to bookstore, especially Half Price Books. By the way, if you have a Half Price nearby, go there often. They have a very good variety of used books, and they get more all the time so if you go often enough you can collect quite a few gems. And they're usually pretty cheap, and in decent condition. Especially the classics. My father and I will spend all day there if we are not forcibly dragged out.

I don't have a Half Price anywhere around here. . .but you've made me insanely jealous! But, we do have library book sales pretty often. Bag of books for a dollar!!!! If you search through the materials, you can usually find some really good books. My cousin in VA shops antique stores and then sends me a book on my birthday and on Christmas (she's like me, we share a LOVE of books)! In June, she sent a beautifully bound copy of four works by Robert Lewis Stevenson and last week she sent me one of our favorite books by Gene Stratton Porter.

My poor mother has to deal with all of my books all over the house. I don't think that the rest of my family appreciates the library book sales as much as I do. . .they find my books everywhere as it is!

And yes, when I go into a bookstore, my sister has to pull my arm and then, when I keep looking back longingly towards the bookstore, she walks faster and tells me that I don't need to be buying books!
 
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mlqurgw said:
Just for fun and because I love books I wanted to ask those here how many books they own and what they consist of. I have about 700 or so and they are mostly: theology, commentaries,sermons, Church history, biographys, expostions of individul books of the Bible and a little secular stuff. My pastor has probably
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4 or 5 thousand volumes. My brother-in-law has about 25 or 30 thousand. His library takes up his whole house.


Oh my goodness, I don't think I even know; There must be at least 1000 books in my tiny little one bedroom apartment. I inherited most of them when I married my husband!

The range of topics is ridiculous; You could probably fond a book about anything at all in our library. From mathmatics to bonsai gardening to psychology and philosophy. From auto mechanics to prayer and everything Reformed and Calvinist. And the history of absolutely everything!!!

Good grief...I don't even like to think about it. I've got books up to my ears! In the kitchen, in the closets and the cupboards, and the bathroom...
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ClementofRome said:
I don't have an exact count. I have a fairly large library at home and then my office at the college has a bunch....so, I suspect somewhere around 3000 not counting CD or .pdf or internet access (however, I am counting overkill.....like 12 different editions of the Apostolic Fathers!).

I have found some very good buys on eBay. I also cruise the Amazon usedbook sellers from time to time. When I was in Seminary near Boston back in the mid-90's CBD used to open its warehouse a couple of times a year for scratch and dent sale! That was always a bonanza! Too bad I was so much poorer then! :(

Good Day, Clement

I go to the CDB open house sale twice a year.... It is a blastttttt.

Peace to u,

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Good Day, Clement

I go to the CDB open house sale twice a year.... It is a blastttttt.

Peace to u,

Bill


Bill, that is one heck of a benefit for folks in the greater Boston area. I have waited outside of CBD from 5AM with coffee and donuts waiting to be first through the mountains of books! I have walked out of that sale with over $1000 work of books for $50 on many occasions. Boy, do I miss that!

Enjoy
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my personal library consists of a few books which were sunday-school prizes and the like, and some books i was given as birthday presents. apart from that, i just read my dad and mum's books... we have about 500 books there, kids' story books, Christian novels, history books, some theological books, sermon books, and so on. there's loads of stuff from soli deo gloria, inheritance publications, banner of truth, evangelical press, and stuff like that.
then there's my dad's personal library, which is probably about 15-20,000 books, maybe even more, not including CD's, PDF's and the like. i once tried to count them when i was younger (about 10, so, seven years ago), i got to 1500, and gave up, as there was still thousands more to go. and he's got heaps more now, stuff he got really cheap from the librarian when he was at theological college, stuff from garage sales, antique stores, stuff he gets on special at sales, &c. &c.
 
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I have got about 4,500 books, give or take a few. My books are evenly spread over the various subject areas with a larger emphasis on commentaries and theology books. Next to reading good books is my love for buying books. My wife claims that I love my books more than I love her, I have thought about that long and hard and I would have to say that its not true (lol).

A close friend of mine once said to me, as I was admiring his library, "A DONKEY LOADED DOWN WITH BOOKS IS STILL ONLY A DONKEY." There is much wisdom in such a comment. It's not about how many books one owns, its not even about how many books one reads, its about being able to discern what one reads. Its about being able to critically examine what you read and then to apply your own thought to it.

Keep buying, keep reading and keep on thinking God's thoughts after Him.

DrWarfield.

PS. My prayer is that Reformed books would come down in price. Have you noticed that you can buy the rubbish books for about $15-20 (Australian) whereas the good stuff (eg Banner of Truth) goes for about $50-60. If we want the Biblical faith to get among the masses then we need to make our literature accessible to all and not only those who will buy at whatever price they find it at.
 
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DrWarfield said:
A close friend of mine once said to me, as I was admiring his library, "A DONKEY LOADED DOWN WITH BOOKS IS STILL ONLY A DONKEY." There is much wisdom in such a comment. It's not about how many books one owns, its not even about how many books one reads, its about being able to discern what one reads. Its about being able to critically examine what you read and then to apply your own thought to it.


Great thoughts DrWarfeild!

I have nothing to brag about myself. I have hardly come around to reading all of the books we own!
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PS. My prayer is that Reformed books would come down in price. Have you noticed that you can buy the rubbish books for about $15-20 (Australian) whereas the good stuff (eg Banner of Truth) goes for about $50-60. If we want the Biblical faith to get among the masses then we need to make our literature accessible to all and not only those who will buy at whatever price they find it at.
there's loads of good books really cheap at koorong. there's loads of absolute rubbish as well. dad got heaps of good books really cheap there for our church's bookstore.
 
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perhaps between 700 and 1000 ........... I have an excellent Puritan library , it took me years to gather these tomes .


I have been guided by several books ......... ***C H Spurgeon's Commenting and Commentaries ; Steele and Thomas 5 Points ; Alan Sell The Great Debate .... etc .

these helped me track down many volumes I wanted .

Basically i wanted every book that would help me in my studies..... even books that were attacking Calvinists are in my collection ..... as there is nothing worse than being prejudiced and uncertain of other views.


I have several 16th century books ........... and a 1599 Geneva Bible.and a KJV 1613 ;)
plus several facsimilies.

I also have a three vol John Gill set 17** .... these are very scarce in buckram .

I managed to track down some original Studies in The Scriptures (A W Pink)

It isn't the amount of books one owns but what gets used ...... 7 great books read over and over are better than 100 skimmed .:wave:


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here is a glimpse into Spurgeon's excellent Commenting and Commentaries :

  1. ECCLESIASTES
  2. [size=-2]ANNOTATIONS on the Book of Ecclesiastes. [12mo.] Lond. Printed by J. Streater. 1669. By no means remarkable, except for extreme rarity.[/size]
  3. BEZA (THEODORE.). Ecclesiastes. Solomon's Sermon to the People, with an Exposition. Small 8vo. Cam&, [1594]. 7/6. Sure to be weighty and instructive. It is exceedingly rare.
  4. [size=+1]BRIDGES[/size] (CHARLES, M.A.) Exposition of Ecclesiastes. Sq. 8vo. 6/-Lond., Seeley & Co. 1860. S. 3/-After the manner of other works by this devout author, who is always worth consulting, though he gives us nothing very new.
  5. [size=-2]BROUGHTON (HUGH. 1549—1612). A Comment upon Ecclesiastes, framed for the Instruction of Prince Henry. 4to. 1605. Broughton was a far-famed and rather pretentious Hebraist whom Dr. Gill quoted as an authority. His work is nearly obsolete, but its loss is not a severe one.[/size]
  6. [size=+1]BUCHANAN[/size] (ROBERT, D.D.) Ecclesiastes; its Meaning and its Lessons, explained and illustrated. Sq. 8vo. 7/6. Loud., Glasg., & Edinb., Blackie & Sons. 1859. S. 3/6. Dr. Buchanan has endeavored in every instance to give the true meaning of the text. His explanations were composed for the pulpit and delivered there. The work is most important, but strikes us as lacking in liveliness of style.
  7. [size=-2]CHOHELETH, or "The Royal Preacher, a Poem." First published in the year 1768. 4to. 3/-Reprinted, 8vo., 1830. 1/6. This is the work of which Mr. Wesley wrote:—"Monday, Feb. 8, 1768. I met with a surprising poem, intituled Choheleth, or the Preacher: it is a paraphrase in tolerable verse on the Book of Ecclesiastes. I really think the author of it (a Turkey merchant) understands both the difficult expressions and the connection of the whole, better than any other, either ancient or modern, writer whom I have seen." We defer to Mr. Wesley's opinion, but it would not have occurred to us to commend so warmly.[/size]
  8. COLEMAN (JOHN NOBLE, M.A.) Ecclesiastes. A New Trans-lation, with Notes. Imp. 8vo. 5/-Lond., Nisbet. 1867. S. 2/6. A scholarly translation with important observations.
  9. COTTON (JOHN. 1585—1652). A briefe exposition, with practical observations. Small 8vo. Loud., 1654. [Reprinted in Nichol's series of Commentaries. See Muffet, No. 596.] By a great linguist and sound divine. Ecclesiastes is not a book to be expounded verse by verse; but Cotton does it as well as anyone.
  10. COX (SAMUEL). The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures. Sq. 8vo. 7/6. Lond., Isbister. 1868. S. 3/6. We should find it hard to subscribe to Mr. Cox's views of Ecclesiastes, for, to begin with, we cannot admit that its author was not Solomon, but some unnamed Rabbi: nevertheless, "The Quest of the Chief Good" is full of valuable matter, and abundantly repays perusal.
  11. [size=-2]DALE (THOMAS PELHAM, M.A.) Ecclesiastes. With a running Commentary and Paraphrase. 8vo. 7/6. Lond., Rivingtons. 1873. This author makes all that he can out of the errors of the Septuagint, which he seems to value almost as much as the correct text itself. The new translation is a sort of stilted paraphrase, which in a remarkable manner darkens the meaning of the wise man's words. Mr. Dale says he is a man of one book, and we are glad to hear it: for we should be sorry for another book to suffer at his hands.[/size]
  12. [size=-2]DESVOEUX (A. V.) A Philosophical and Critical Essay on Ecclesiastes. 4to. Lond., 1760. 2/6. A curious and elaborate production. Neither in criticism, nor in theology, is the author always sound, and his notes are a very ill-arranged mass of singular learning.[/size]
  13. GINSBURG (CHRISTIAN D.) Coheleth, or Ecclesiastes; trans-lated, with a Commentary. 8vo. Lond.,Longmans. 1857. S. 12/-The author does not believe that Solomon wrote the book, and his view of its design is not the usual, nor, as we think, the right one. His outline of the literature of the book is very complete.
  14. GRANGER (THOMAS). A Familiar Exposition, wherein the World's Vanity and the true Felicitie are plainly deciphered. 4to. Lond., 1621. 5/-to 7/6. Very antique, containing many obsolete and coarse phrases; but pithy and quaint.
  15. [size=-2]GREENAWAY (STEPHEN). New Translation. 8vo. Leicester, 1781. 3/6. Confused, eccentric, and happily very rare.[/size]
  16. [size=+1]HAMILTON[/size] JAMES, D.D. (1814-1867). Royal Preacher: Lectures on Ecclesiastes. Cr. 8vo. 3/6. Also 12mo., 1851; 16mo., 1854. Lond., Nisbet. S. 1/6 to 2/6. We have had a great treat in reading this prose poem. It is a charming production.
  17. [size=+1]HENGSTENBERG[/size] (E. W., D.D.) Commentary on Ecclesiastes. To which are appended: Treatises on the Song of Solomon; on the Book of Job; on the Prophet Isaiah, &c. 8vo. 9/-Edinb., T. & T. Clark. 1860. S. 4/6. Scholarly of course, and also more vivacious than is usual with Hengstenberg.
  18. [size=-2]HODGSON (BERNARD, LL.D ) New Translation. 4to. Oxf., 1791. 4/' Notes neither long, numerous, nor valuable.[/size]
  19. HOLDEN (GEORGE, M.A.) An Attempt to illustrate the Book of Ecclesiastes. 8vo. Lond., 1822. 3/6. Bridges says that Holden "stands foremost for accuracy of critical exegesis," and Ginsburg considers his Commentary to be the best in our language. We may therefore be wrong in setting so little store by it as we do, but we are not convinced.
  20. JERMIN (MICHAEL, D.D.) Ecclesiastes. Folio. 1639. 6/6. The school to which Jermin belonged delighted to display their learning, of which they had no small share; they excelled in wise sayings, but not in unction. The fruit is ripe, but lacks flavour.
  21. [size=+1]KEIL & DELITZSCH.[/size] (See Books of Solomon. No. 577.)
  22. [size=+1]LANGE.[/size] (See Books of Solomon. No. 578.)
  23. LLOYD (J., M.A.) An Analysis of Ecclesiastes: with reference to the Hebrew Grammar of Gesenius, and with Notes; to which is added the Book of Ecclesiastes, in Hebrew and English, in parallel columns. 4to. 7/6. Lond., Bagsters. 1874. This will be esteemed by men who have some knowledge of the Hebrew. The repeated references to Gesenius would render the book tedious to the ordinary reader, but they make it all the more valuable to one who aspires to be a Hebraist.
  24. [LUTHER]. An Exposition of Salomon's Booke, called Eccle-siastes, or the Preacher. 8vo. Printed by J. Day. Lond., x 513. Even the British Museum authorities have been unable to find this octavo for us, though it is mentioned in their catalogue
  25. [size=+1]MACDONALD[/size] (JAMES M., D.D. Princeton, iV. J.) Ecclesiastes. Thick 12mo. New York. 1856. S. 4/6. Thoroughly exegetical, with excellent "scopes of argument" following each division: to be purchased if it can be met with.
  26. MORGAN (A. A.) Ecclesiastes metrically Paraphrased, with Illustrations. 4to. 2 i/-Lond., Bosworth. 1856. This is an article de luxe, and is rather for the drawing-room than for the study. A graphic pencil, first-class typography, and a carefully written metrical translation make up an elegant work of art.
  27. MYLNE (G. W.) Ecclesiastes; or, Lessons for the Christian's Daily Walk. 16mo. Lond., 1859. 1/6. The author in this little publication does not comment upon the whole Book; but the passages he touches are ably explained.
  28. NISBET (ALEXANDER. Died about 1658). An Exposition, with Practical Observations. 4to. Edinb., 1694. 4/6 to 10/6. One of those solid works which learned Scotch divines of the seven teenth century have left us in considerable numbers. In our judgment it is as heavy as it is weighty.
  29. NOYES. (See No. 579).
  30. PEMBLE (WILLIAM, M.A 1591—1623). Salomon's Recanta-tion and Repentance; or, the Book of Ecclesiastes briefly and fully explained. Thin 4to. Lond., 1628. 3/6. Anthony a Wood calls Pemble "a famous preacher, a skillful linguist, a good orator, and an ornament to society." Moreover, he was a learned Calvinistic divine. This "Recantation" is a minor production. The style is scholastic, with arrangements of the subjects such as render it hard to read. We confess we are disappointed with it.
  31. PRESTON (THEODORe, M.A.) A translation of the Commentary of Mendelssohn from the Rabbinic Hebrew; also a newly-arranged English Version, 8vo. Lond., 1845. 5/-A book more prized by linguists than by preachers. We might with propriety have named this Mendelssohn's Commentary, for so it is.
  32. [size=-2]PROBY (W. H. B., M.A.) Ecclesiastes for English Readers. Thin 8vo. 4/6. Lond., Rivingtons. 1874. S. 2/3. About 45 pages, and these are quite enough. What has come to a man's brain when he prophecies that Antichrist will take away the daily sacrifice, that is, "forbid the eucharistic bread and wine," and then adds: "To this awful time there is probably a mystical reference in the words of our present book (XII. 6), 'While the silver cord is not loosed, or the golden bowl broken, or the pitcher broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.' For silver and gold signify respectively, in the symbolic language of Scripture, love and truth: thus the loosening of the silver cord will mean the love of many waxing cold, and the breaking of the golden bowl will mean the failure of truth from the earth; and we understand, then, that in the last awful time there will be no longer any speaking of the truth in love. And as the 'wells of salvation' in Isaiah XlI. 3, are the sacraments and other means of grace, so the breaking of the pitcher and the wheel may signify the cessation of those ministries by which the sacraments and other means of grace are dispensed."[/size]
  33. REYNOLDS (EDWARD, D.D. Bishop of Norwich, x 599—1676) Annotations. Works. Vol. IV. 8vo. Lond., 1826. Reprinted, by Dr. Washburn. 8vo. Lond., 1811. 2/6. See Westminster Assembly's Annotations (No. 2), for which Reynolds wrote this: he is always good.
  34. [size=-2]SERRANUS, or, DE SERRES (JOHN. 1540—1598). A Godlie and Learned Commentary upon Ecclesiastes, newly turned into English, by John Stockwood, Schoolmaster of Tunbridge. 8vo. Lond., 1585. 7/6. Serranus was a Protestant pastor at Nismes, of such moderate opinions, and such objectionable modes of stating them, that he was about equally abhorred by Romanists and Protestants. He is said to have been very inaccurate in his learning.[/size]
  35. [size=+1]STUART[/size] (MOSES). A Commentary on Ecclesiastes 12mo. 6/-New York., 1851. S. 3/-Full and minute, with most instructive introductions. It is unnecessary to say that Moses Stuart is a great authority, though not all we could wish as to spirituality.
  36. [size=-2]TYLER (Triowas, M.A.) Ecclesiastes; a Contribution to its Interpretation. 8vo. 7/6. Lond., Williams & Norgate. 1875. This writer is no doubt a profound thinker, but we do not set much store by the result of his thinkings. He maintains that the writer of Ecclesiastes was a Jew who had. traveled abroad, and heard the Stoic philosophers and their opponents at Athens. He seems to think that his point is proved, but it is the merest surmise possible. The work is not at all to our taste.[/size]
  37. [size=+1]WARDLAW[/size] (RALPH, D.D.) Lectures on Ecclesiastes. 2vols.,8vo. 1821. 2vols., 12mo. 1838. Oliphant & Co.'s edition, in 1 vol., 8/6. 1871. S. 4/6. Wardlaw is always goad, though not very brilliant. He may be relied upon, when not critical, and he generally excites thought.
  38. WEISS (BENJAMIN). New Translation and Exposition, with Critical Notes. 12mo. 4/-Lond., Nisbet & Co. 1856. S. 1/6. It is pleasing to find a converted Jew engaged upon this Book. Mr. Weiss says many good things, but frequently his interpretations and remarks are more singular than wise.
  39. [size=-2]YCARD (FR. Dean of Achonry). Paraphrase. 8vo. Lond., 1701. I/6. The clean supposes the Royal Preacher to have been interrupted by an impudent sensualist, and so he gets rid of the difficulty of certain passages by putting them into the scoffer's mouth. The theory is not to be tolerated for a moment.[/size]
  40. [size=+1]YOUNG[/size] (LOYAL, D.D.) Commentary, with introductory Notices by McGill and Jacobus. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1865. This American comment is high& spoken of by eminent judges. and appears to have been carefully executed. It is able and solid, and at the same time enlivened with originality of thought, vivacity of,expression, and practical pungency.
  41. SMITH (JOHN, M.D., M.R.C.P.L.) King Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age, wherein is contained A Sacred Anatomy both of Soul and Body, with an account of all these Mystical and Enigmatical Symptomes, expressed in the six former verses of the 12th Chap. of Ecclesiastes, made plain and easie to a mean Capacitie. 8vo. Lond., 1666. 2/6 to 5/-A curious book by a Physician, who brings his anatomical knowledge to bear upon the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes, and tries to show that Solomon understood the circulation of the blood, &c. Matthew Poole introduced the substance of this treatise into his Synopsis, and in that huge compilation he speaks eulogistically of the author, with whom he resided. We mention it because of its singularity.
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cygnusx1 said:
I remember years ago the faces of two Jw's when they saw my Puritan library ....... they looked embarrased with their tracts and watchtower comic ... :)

I keep a copy of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and my Greek New Testament by the front door.

When the two "elders" [youngers???] come to the door; my kids yell out, "Hey, it's for you dad and they go pop popcorn."
 
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I think I have a mere 115+ religious/christian books. I think I have only read half of those due to the fact I keep adding books, that and I start a book, read a couple of chapters, get interested in another book and start reading that book. It is a sad cycle.
If I were to include non-Christian books, probably about 150 in total.
 
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mlqurgw said:
Just for fun and because I love books I wanted to ask those here how many books they own and what they consist of. I have about 700 or so and they are mostly: theology, commentaries,sermons, Church history, biographys, expostions of individul books of the Bible and a little secular stuff. My pastor has probably
4 or 5 thousand volumes. My brother-in-law has about 25 or 30 thousand. His library takes up his whole house.

Religious books (doctrine, theology, devotionals, biographies, resource) 150-175 (probably 1/3 of which are currently residing in my church library. Biographies, fiction (science fiction, murder mysteries, Christian fiction, spy novels), political, poetry, history, gardening, cookbooks - 750 (I'm sure that's a conservative estimate). Another 50 plus children's books (I'm rebuilding that collection due to grandkids). I still have boxes and boxes of books in my attic from when I moved 2 years ago (I just don't have enough shelving for them). Additionally I gave several boxes of fiction away at that time - stuff I knew I wouldn't read again. That was probably 200-300 books.

I love books. I've dreamed of writing, I'd love to work at/own a bookstore. However, I also recognize that I wouldn't make any money because I'd spend all my income buying more books (have to take advantage of that employee discount).

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drstevej said:
I keep a copy of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and my Greek New Testament by the front door.

When the two "elders" [youngers???] come to the door; my kids yell out, "Hey, it's for you dad and they go pop popcorn."

I have a JW that I talk to, that lives in the Watchtower here in NY. And he has a copy of esword now. Dont know whats gonna happen as he reads the real Bible.:p

My library? Maybe 15 books. About 8 Bibles and the rest mostly devotionals...Im a little poor as of now to get many, although I am checking the used book stores for good stuff.
 
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