Which Room in Your Home Contains the Most Reading Material?

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 27 Dec 2013, 22:42

I just had to think about that a bit myself. I think it would be the dining room. Explanation is that I have three floor to ceiling bookshelves in there plus my desk that's always stacked with books, magazines, catalogs and clippings to read. Second place is the upstairs hall with kind of cobbled shelves of three different units stacked to create one big set of shelves. Third place would be the bedroom with stacks on most surfaces...dangerous when fat footed kitties walk the headboard at night

gali · Post by **gali** » 28 Dec 2013, 00:58

The play room of my kids. We have a huge library there and we keep most books there. We have books in the rooms and hall as well.

ErinLundJohnson · Post by **ErinLundJohnson** » 28 Dec 2013, 03:31

Toss-up between the living room, with two large cases of 15 shelves combined, and the bedroom, with a case of 5 shelves, a bureau with a shelf full of books, 3 baskets full of them, and a stack on my bedside table... I'd have to count them to figure it out! LOL

caelishbarham · Post by **caelishbarham** » 28 Dec 2013, 05:14

My bedroom for sure! I always have at least ten books in my bedroom at all time! I tend to start a book right before I go to bed (meaning I don't usually go to bed until the book is finished).

ParadiseLost19 · Post by **ParadiseLost19** » 28 Dec 2013, 07:08

For me, that would be the room I share with my sister. In addition to our own books, our parents also put their old books here. That's not even mentioning the serious book-buying addiction I have and the fact that the most common Christmas and Birthday presents in this household are books. The result is that small piles of books erupt from the ground because there isn't enough space on the shelves

Jenniferpotucek · Post by **Jenniferpotucek** » 28 Dec 2013, 12:13

I keep all of my books in my bedroom because I love reading in bed.

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 28 Dec 2013, 13:14

ParadiseLost19 wrote: The result is that small piles of books erupt from the ground because there isn't enough space on the shelves

I knew it! I knew it! You have just proven me correct that book piles left overnight can reproduce on their own

DATo · Post by **DATo** » 28 Dec 2013, 13:15

My office which contains bookshelves containing about 3,000 books. Next would be the guest bathroom which contains one book - Franny & Zooey - which was placed there to serve as emergency toilet tissue.

Doc Foster · Post by **Doc Foster** » 28 Dec 2013, 16:39

My office, with about 1000 books. The number has remained pretty constant since we moved into our house in 2005, when I made a deal with my wife: she'd say nothing about the disarray of the room as long as I didn't allow it to spread to the rest of the house. Not to mention my Kindle, with another 400 or so ebooks.

I filled up the shelves long ago, and now, when I need to make room for new books, I remove those I can best part with and give them to the library. The shelves stay full, in no apparent order. However, I have a database for them which tells me where to find them - it works very well, and I don't have to reorganize.

I don't mind losing (most) old favorites. First, I don't much care about books as objects* ; second, I rationalize by saying that as long as I always give away my least favorite books my library will keep on getting better, even if not bigger.

*Some books I can't part with. The set of Hemingway novels, in their original dull Scrivener paperback covers, which I bought fifty years ago; Isaac Asimov's The Martian Way and Other Stories, which I bought on Balboa Island one summer when I was fifteen, lost, and finally replaced; the hardcover guides to the Old and New Testaments which my wife loaned me in college; the Stargazer's Guide, which my mom and dad gave me for Christmas, along with a telescope, when I was ten...maybe a few others I'll remember when I've posted this.

Rosytoes · Post by **Rosytoes** » 29 Dec 2013, 21:26

Hands down, my bedroom, it seems like every inch is covered in books. I have a huge bookshelf but it is not big enough and books are stacked everywhere. It is probably not safe.

tracydinh96 · Post by **tracydinh96** » 04 Jan 2014, 16:59

My bedroom has the majority of my books

dudeandduchess · Post by **dudeandduchess** » 05 Jan 2014, 01:37

My bedroom has 70% of all the books at home. I have a book shelf for them, but I've lost space for all the other books that I've resorted to using my closet as well as my brother's room to keep my books.