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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [Meta] Wait, you sort your books how???
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:37:10 +1200
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On 16/07/24 02:01, Tony Nance wrote:
> On 7/15/24 9:54 AM, Tony Nance wrote:
>> On 7/15/24 9:48 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>> In article <v738di$n4rq$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> More signs of madness in this crazy world:
>>>>
>>>> I just ran across the results of a poll that asked 29,000 Americans
>>>> about their book-owning habits, and friends, I am shocked — shocked! —
>>>> to report that there are people who have absolutely no organizational
>>>> system whatsoever. Worse — worse, I tell you — there are some who sort
>>>> their books by color. Color!
>>>>
>>>> Here’s a link to the main source (published in October):
>>>> https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/47712-how-many-books-americans-own-and-how-they-organize-them
>>>>
>>>> Tony
>>>
>>> I could read the link, I suppose, but I wonder how many people actually
>>> have a sufficient number of books such that they need to be organized.
>>
>> That is indeed a point mentioned in the article.
>> - Tony
>>
> 
> Whoops - I thought I hit "draft" while I looked it up, but instead I
> must have hit "publish by accident" ... anyhow:
> 
> That is indeed a point mentioned in the article:
> "One in five Americans (20%) say they own between one and 10 physical
> books, while 14% own between 11 and 25 books, and 13% between 26 and 50."
> 
> Tony

I thought I owned about 50 real books but after curiosity motivated a
count, I discovered I own 140 of which about 30 are of SF genre in a
separate bookcase in no particular order other than series/trilogies in
sequence. The children's books are together as are the 1960's FI and
Indianapolis racing books but the rest are a muddle. All are simply dust
collectors including the 30 SF favourites as they are duplicated as
ebooks using Calibre. When I finish reading a book, I delete it from the
Kindle on which I store books to be read, collections and some
non-fiction stuff. My understanding is that I do not legally own ebooks
on my PC in Calibre whose library system is suitable for me for 2000+
ebooks.

When I do enter the spare bedroom where the SF bookcase is, I do get a
small pleasure from speed reading the titles, a different experience to
reading a title in Calibre.