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[vagel7]

A single book would count as multiple books ONLY if other books are included in it. If a book is a single book and it has say 3000 pages, it is still just one book. You can't divide 1000 page books into multiple books.

My planned books:

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1. Diamonds are forever - Ian Fleming
2. A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin
3. The Casual Vacancy - J.K Rowling
4. The Prince - Machiavelli
5. Truth and Justice I - Anton Hansen Tammsaare
6. Truth and Justice II
7. Truth and Justice III
8. Truth and Justice IV
9. Truth and Justice V
10. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
11. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
12. The Great Gatsby - f. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoi
14. Memento Mori - Murial Spark
15. Kasaks - Lev Tolstoi
16. Emigrants - Aleksei Tolstoi
17. The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
18. The Necromancer - Michael Scott
19. The Warlock - Michael Scott
20. The Enchantress - Michael Scott
21. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
22. Don Quixote - Cervantes
23. The Iliad - Homer
24. Gilgamesh
25. Hea Firma - Armin Kõõmägi
26. The da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
27. Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
28. Odyssey - Homer
29. You only live once - Ian Fleming
30. Põrgupõhja Uus Vanapagan - Anton Hansen Tammsaare

That is my current backlog of books that I can remember.

Glyph: those kind of magazines count, if they have short stories in them, then they count. Textbooks don't count.

[RedKing]

I can't do a book a week. I just can't. Might be able to manage one every two weeks though. Put me down for 26.

Helps that I'm now living with a bibliophile and writer. His personal library makes mine look like shit.

[GlyphGryph]

Glyph: those kind of magazines count, if they have short stories in them, then they count.

Cool!

Textbooks don't count.

Whaaaaaat? Why not? I figured those would be a given - they are certainly book length! What about non-textbook-type technical/science books and natural histories? I'm still trying to chug my way through Accelerated C++, for example, and my wife buys a bunch of books about plants that I end up reading second hand. (Though most of those are really half manual/half autobiography. Hmm... I've got some book of my own like that too. I have no idea what that Genre is called!)

[Heron TSG]

I was going to try to read all of the Dragonlance novels, but holy fuck there are 194 of them. Maybe just a few, then.

Put me down for 52.

[Simmura McCrea]

Put me down for 52. Then watch as I don't even make 20 for some reason.

[anzki4]

Seeing as I have started reading less and less and I've been planning on picking up the pace some time now, I'm in for 52.

[pisskop]

I'll give it a go.  I usually only read rather lengthy non-ficiton, however, so I am unsure if 52 will be feasible.  Does a book describing the growth of the youth culture and its change from 1940 to now count?

26 for me, after thought.  the books are too long, and I have to study and exercise and suchnot.

[Loud Whispers]

A book a week, starting from 21st? Sure thing!

[FearfulJesuit]

I can't do a book a week. I just can't. Might be able to manage one every two weeks though. Put me down for 26.

Helps that I'm now living with a bibliophile and writer. His personal library makes mine look like shit.

If I may suggest an e-peen (ink-peen?) measuring contest, how big's yours? Currently I own somewhere around 700-720 books, maybe 750 volumes; it's fairly extensive, ranging from Finnegans Wake to Alastalon Salissa to A Grammar of Modern Welsh to Fractional Calculus to The Dravidian Languages to the 11th edition (1913) Encyclopædia Britannica to volumes 1-6 of Fruits Basket (my secret shame: a love of shojo manga).

Given that I am a 17-year-old with spending money but not extensive means (both parents ~$50,000 white-collar workers) who has never held an official job, I am really rather proud of this feat. Today I added four volumes to the collection, maybe more- there's a bookstore near here that sells books (I bought vols. 4 and 6-8 of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei for three bucks each) at absurdly and I suspect dubiously legally low prices. It certainly helps that I almost never spend my money on anything else.

[Dutchling]

I have <30 books Dx
I plan on buying or otherwise acquiring most of the 52 books for next year though, so I hope to reach ~75 next year.

[Scelly9]

Approximately 1500 books owned. Hell yes.

[FearfulJesuit]

Approximately 1500 books owned. Hell yes.

Do you count all the ones in the house or just those you yourself and nobody else in the family owns? If I counted everything in the house it'd go up to about 2100 or 2200 books.

[Scelly9]

House. If I counted only mine, it would be more like 8.

[Darvi]

A couple hundred here. And that includes comic- and gamebooks. While an avid reader, I'm not much of a buyer of books.

That, and a good deal has been irretrievably left in various places.

[GlyphGryph]

I have... 15? 20? And I'm planning on getting rid of some of those.

I tend to give them away, trash them, or use them for kindling when I'm finished with them. There are very few books that make their way into my permanent library.

I hate "stuff", as a general rule.