{"id":8866,"date":"2012-06-19T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2012-06-19T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:36:56","slug":"how-many-books-do-you-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/how-many-books-do-you-own\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Books Do You Own?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by<\/em> Madison James<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8868\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"book collections\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/book-collections.jpg?resize=150%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/>My sister-in-law dropped by this weekend and we started chatting about a popular book that just recently became a movie. Just so happens, I had the book. I told her I would run down in the basement and get it for her. About 15 minutes later I came back exhausted, I\u2019d given up because I had so many books to go through that I couldn\u2019t find it. I realized that I had many books I had accumulated over the years. Literally I have hundreds of books; ask me how many I\u2019ve re-read\u2026 I would say a handful. Why do I hold on to these books?<\/p>\n<p>I remember moving around a lot in my childhood and having boxes and boxes of books (mostly romance) to move with me.\u00a0 My brothers and my father pitched a fit that they had to move what they deemed as unnecessary baggage to the next house, and begging me to get rid of them; of course I didn\u2019t. That habit has followed me into adulthood and now I question why I don\u2019t get rid of them, especially as I\u2019m collecting all of my all-time favorite books on my tablet.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8867\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"book addict mug\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/book-addict-mug.jpg?resize=120%2C117\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"117\" \/>I\u2019m the quintessential book worm and one of my greatest passions was reading, and I think, (putting on my psychiatrist hat) that in a way keeping those books are like trophies of my favorite sport.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the question: What&#8217;s your rough estimate of how many books you personally own and keep at home? Do you have cartons of them in closets like me? What makes up the bulk of your collection? 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