Own library....! What's on ur book shelf?

I used to have a large collection of books, but now I have fallen into the trend of storing the material on the computer. I use Microsoft Encarta, which is a fabulous interactive encyclopaedia but does lack the attraction of seeing 24 volumes in a bookcase. The same goes for manuals and many factual and fictional stories. I know a lot of people who still collect books, but the trend is slowly fading and I imagine that it will soon become a thing of the past.

Um..I have about a half ofa thousand books. The categories tend to be Supernatural thrillers Scifi Fantasy Tragedies YA Some random novelsI don't know how to categorize supernatural romances (very few) a couple History fictions a few hundredyear old books, including some first editions, and ne that's nearly two hundred years old Nonfiction, including cooking, some on Wicca, Magick, Witchcraft, etc, cats, astrology, tarot, a book on deer, yoga, drawing, chivilry. I have some mythology books, Norse, Greek, Cetlic. Shakespear. Plato. A bit of everything I guess.

I have a small library in my house.Most of my collections are computer networkings books.I also dont like reading novels.

I am more into books of philosophy or kinda spiritual thing. I also read more books related to business now a days bcoz I am pursuing MBA now. And before marriage I read books of Vivekananda, Ramakrishna paramhamsar's ...also short story books I like. But I never indulge in novels. Apart from that now I read magazines of all related to computers and health. my husband also reads lot of books and he used to buy often.And we both love to travel a lot. So we have books of routes all over India also few other countries book. So we have few collections related to business, health, parenting, travel, philosphy , motivational books and lot about cars .....so small library in our house. Because mix of all sorts of books.

I like to read poems more than any other...!

I have! It's in my room right by my bed, so it's easy for me to pick a book before I set off for dreamland. Well, most of my books on my shelf are kids and teen books because my sister bought most of them for me when I was younger. As I grew older, I added in more serious and sophisticated books! I have a lot of Enid Blytons, then there's Harry Potter, Jane Eyre(took it from my sis!), Diana Wynne Jones', Sweet Valleys(I don't read them anymore but they're still there in case I want to read them again), a few classics, and one Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Yeah, I know it's quite a poor variety of books. My sister has more serious books on her shelves, so I will browse through her occasionally. And I also like having books in my room. They're better than any ornamental decoration.

As for me, I don't really collect "educational" or "informative" books. I mostly collect fiction. The ones I have a lot of are children's books by Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, Enid Blyton, and a lot more. I also collect classics like Frankenstein, or ones by HG Wells and Charles Dickens. I also share some inspirational books with my sister.

I am building up my collection of novels by Emile Zola. His Les Rougon-Macquart set. They are brilliant and very powerful stories. I also have novels by other classic writers and the more modern writers John Irving and Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I have a load of cooking books that are covered in dust and some motivational books which I can never be bothered to read!!!

I have a book cupboard in which I put all my books which I have accummulated over the years. They are categorised according to books for children, novels(humour, fantasy, romance, literature), autobiographies, fiction and non-fiction and also, my music books.

Book is a door opened ajar to a completely different,amazing and interesting world.Book Reading is my hobby.I read books every night before I sleep,it freshes my mind.As reading books I also have a hobby of collecting them.I have a large book collection.I also have many old books from 1975,1980...and so on.As you have asked about collection so my favourites are the books relating to science and geography,else,I read story,books,jokes comics and some novels too.The books I like are Pinocchio,TinTin(series),Visual Encyclopedia,Tell Me Why...So the bottom line is I love reading and collecting books

mostly books by my favorite authors (austen, christie, tolien, herriott, twain, heyer, etc.), a handful of biographies, several books on dogs, a few cookbooks, a thesaurus (yay!), etc.

Classic literature (Dickens, etc), fiction (Kundera, Murakami, Coelho, Brown, etc), world lit (Arundhati Roy, etc), gay/lesbian (Winterson), comics (Calvin and Hobbes!, Peanuts, Archie, etc) and lots of misc. stuff. :)

Ahem... la-la-la-la.... "Scienceee fiction, double feature, Doctor X... will build a creature...." Sorry, breaking out into song from Rocky Horror Picture Show. But that's 90% of what is in my collection. Sadly, right now most of my collection is out in boxs in the sheds. Last time I actually COUNTED I had over 5000 - many signed.

Hmm.. everyone seems like having their own library at home. I just started. I hope one day i can call my collection of books-a library.For now,i only have novels(most are by my favourite authors,Stephen King),motivational books,health magazine (lots of them since some of them i can get it for free) and the whole book shelves for my magazines (from comics to woman magazine to teen magazines that i collected started from my primary school).

I'd say we've got a good start on a library! my wife is a bibliophile. we've got three bookshelves, five shelves each, and each shelf has got probably, 50 books on it. we stack them on top of each other, where the book is flat on the shelf and so on. That doesn't count the hardbacks we keep separately, or the childrens books that we have for our son. We've got a little bit of everything with the exception of bodice ripping romance novels. Horror, adventure, thriller, comedy, plays, but what we've got a whole lot of are Dean Koontz, NOra Robers, Lincoln/Child, and brian lumley.

sorry i dont had library but i like to read books especially detective novels.

my most of my books are in bareilly you know, my birth place, i mostly had educational books, a lot of research papers, chess books too now since i am in jalandhar i have buyed books related to yoga and planning one on meditation, 3-4 magazines, dont have much stuff here, actually dont have much money to spend on books, but atleast i try to buy one each month, so taht i could spend my time easily, i too dont like reading novels, although i have read 1-2 when i was teaching in school

I dont have big collection out there.I;ve got my dictionary,thesaurus,alot of books on music,bird encyclopedia,alot of nature stuff,medical dictionary,blah,blah,....

I have lots of marketing and personal development books. I am a better person thanks to those books