I am a curious old man!!! Just was wondering how many books a person can handle on here?? I have a few listed and can't keep track of where they are so I was just curious as to how many books you all have posted??? Humor me please !!!

I have about 200 listed, and I keep them on the top of a cabinet outside my office. Nothing else goes there except posted books, so I always know where those books are.

I have about 1000 more that I want to list, but I don't want to mail them all and end up with all those credits .... so I am waiting before I list more for a while. The only new books than I continue to post are Wish List books, although I am also still sending out regular FIFO orders every week from my bookshelf.

I've seen PBS shelves with a couple thousand books on them, though.

I have only a few posted - but I've seen members with bookshelves with much more than a thousand.  I wouldn't begin to be able to handle that.

Ruth

I browsed a shelf with 10,000 books on it yesterday.

I browsed a shelf with 10,000 books on it yesterday.

Wow!  I've seen one with 3000+ books and I thought that was amazing but 10,000....  She must be one organized person to keep up with all those books. 

I listed about 140 books when I joined, and have mailed out about 80 of them.  I accumulated a lot of credits fast, but since most of the books I wanted were WL, I was spending a lot on postage without seeing anything back.  Now that some of my WL books are coming in, I'm feeling more secure.  I'd like to keep only 20-30 credits in my account at any one time.  When I drop below that, I'll start posting again.

I have at least 1000 books that I'd like to get rid of, but I couldn't keep track of that many in my account.  The person with 10,000 books listed must have a warehouse.  We have over 6,000 books in our house, and although we have a big house, we seem almost overwhelmed with books at times.  I'm planning to donate a lot of books in the next few months as I try to whittle down our collection to maybe half of what it is now--if I can talk my husband and sons into keeping only their most essential thousand or so books each.

There are quite a few people with bookshelves in the thousands.

We have a few people with Used Bookstores and they list a lot of their books here to earn credits to get WL books for themselves.  They sell the surplus credits to cover postage.

If I listed all the books I didn't want, I think I'd hit the thousand range.  The thought of the space required for multi-thousand makes me shudder.

I only have so much space to sort & list books, so I don't have them all listed.  I also am trying very hard to figure out ways to entice people to spending more than one credit at time so I can cut my shipping costs.  

I currently have 263 books posted, and a bunch more that I've set aside to post but haven't gotten around to posting yet.

When I only had 50 or so posted, I just stacked them against the wall, but when it got into the hundreds, I had to organize them or I would spend way too much time just searching for the book somebody ordered. Now I have them arranged alphabetically in a spare chest of drawers; a couple of drawers hold the mass market paperbacks, one holds the kids' books, one holds the trade paperbacks, and so on. It makes things a lot easier. There's a lot more space in there than I would have thought there would be, too; even with over 200 books, it's still not full.

I'd like to put them on a bookshelf, but all the bookshelves in the house are taken up with books to read and books I want to keep!

I never have more than 15-35 posted at one time.  Whenever I post 5 or 10 books (not counting WL books) they seem to get ordered pretty quick and its the same 15 or so that end up sitting there the whole time.

I think the most I ever had was 50.

Personally I don't like looking at a shelf when it has several hundred or more books.  Even with the genre sorting it's still too many to wade through.  Especially on a really slow computer like mine.

I would be in heaven if I had 10,000 books. Oh my! What bliss.

I have 257 on mine right now, but it's on hold until the first of the month. I have about 15-20 more that I need to add.

Thank you for all this info and sorting ideas. And 10,000????? WOW WOW WOW. I don't thing I could sit and look through that many. I think with you ladies help I came up with a few ideas to try myself. My grandkids cleared out a small room I had (was my wifes sewing room before she passed) :-( . I liked the dresser drawer idea. So will see what I come up with. This site has been fun and I do have tons of books now but only 200 or so listed. I would like to try a new hobby. LOL and besides I am hunting down books and movies for my homeschooled Godchild. Thanks Ladies.

I just checked aand I have 104 books posted. They are mostly paperbacks and I know I could come up with another 50 or so but I have to send off some first.....mostly paperbacks.

I have little over 200 at any time -I have a book case dedicated to the books I post. 

I keep my shelf under 200 for easy browsing.  I think I'm at about 160 right now.  I too have tons more to post but I'll wait a while more.  I don't want to make my shelf too much to browse, I figure 4 pages is about my limit of browsing someone else's shelf so I keep mine to that many pages as well.

I keep all posted books in a brown paper sack and also an underbed storage box so I know where to go to get what's requested.

My shelf fluctuates between 200 and 225 or so.  I have one floor to ceiling bookcase and a wooden chest dedicated to PBS and books for the troops.  Anymore than 200 or so books and I'd run into 'spillage' into other areas and I wouldn't be able to keep them straight.  The thought of thousands of books boggles my mind and makes me drool in envy, LOL.

The largest shelf I know of right now is MIKE M. (middnight123) , with 3,267

(Found by looking at who had the most books among the BOB traders in the most common category - general fiction).

I have over 400 posted.....I keep them in rubbermaid bins...one for adults....one for kids.

I can't even begin to think about 10,000....YIKES!

I'm lucky if I have 30 on my shelf.   It seems to hover around 28 most of the time.  I couldn't begin to handle hundreds of books on my shelf.  Just sorting through my TBR is difficult enough.

Ruth

Oh yes, books for trading are kept separate, otherwise it would be a nightmare!  I'm lucky enough to have a small spare room (although I have so much "spare" stuff that it's always packed full!)  I have the books separated by format (HC, MM PB, and Trade PB) just because they stack nicely by size.  Then they are roughly alphabetized (A-E, F-I, etc.)  I can find anything easily this way, but I only have between 200 and 300 books on my bookshelf at any time.  If I had a few thousand books I'd need a separate spare room full of bookcases devoted only to trading.  I must admit though, that sounds like fun!

I have a TBR over 600.  I bought some under the be shoe holders that zip up.  I can store 58 mass market paperbacks in them.  They slide right under my bed. I filled it by my computer and had my TBR pile open.  So  I used the Note feature to type in Bag so I know which books are under there.  I loaded them by genre/author for the most part.  One bag for historical romance, keeping books by an author together, 1 bag for mysteries/cozies etc...,

I GOT IT FIGURED OUT - Some of us old fellers can be smart sometimes !!!

Well ladies, You helped me use my "noodle". I figured out that if I put my ISBN's for a box of books on the wordpad and upload only one full box at a time, I have a date and time that I can put on the end of the box. For example: If we get a book request, it tells you when you listed it - both the date and the time, so I go right to that box and find the book. So, do you think I can beat that 10,000 ???? We will see, maybe in a year or two. LOL. I just dumped my PBS bookshelf and started over.  I have nothing better to do, I have a new HOBBY !!!!! You ladies have a great day. God Bless. David