Extollager
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Chrons people are invited to count their books and to wait until June 1, 2016 to report the number. On June 1 you could post a message in a form something like this: "During April 28-30, I counted my books. At that time I counted 1,054 volumes."
This will give everyone time to count their books, to take the opportunity to weed, and so on.
For myself, assuming I follow through (!), I intend to follow these guidelines:
1.Electronic books don't count.
2.Telephone books don't count. (See also #7 below.)
3.Books that are yours only for use during your time on a job don't count.
4.Bound volumes of magazines do count, but loose magazines don't count.
5.Items that one has bound with staples don't count as books. (I have a number of novels that I downloaded from Project Gutenberg, printed, and bound with large staples. I'm not going to count these as books.) However, something like a fan-published book that is bound with staples will count. I have Harry Warner's fan history A Wealth of Fable in the form of three mimeographed and stapled "volumes." It will count as one book. (But see #8 below.)
6.Diaries, personal journals, scrapbooks, and photo albums don't count as books.
7.Ephemera such as Penney's or Monkey Ward's catalogs, paperback almanacs, college catalogs, and bookseller catalogs don't count, but school and college yearbooks do count as books. I own four city directories. They will add four books to my count.
8.Each volume of a multi-volume book counts as a book. For example, the two-volume Ballantine Fantasy editions of The Night Land and The Well at the World's End will add up to four books, not two. A forty-volume encyclopaedia set counts as 40 books.
9.Duplicate copies of books certainly do count. The idea is to count books, not "titles."
10.I've been married for 33 years. For me, it's easy to say whether a given book is mine or my wife's. Others may think about this matter in other ways.
Again, I'd ask that people wait till June 1 to report their count at a thread to be called THE BOOK REPORT, so that we can have a one-day celebration (or, if this is how it feels, public confession!) of our book holdings; but till then it would be nice to hear from people who intend to participate, and to have comments on the above one person's criteria vs. your own, and whatever else seems appropriate. It might be amusing if people would like to post their estimate of how many books they have, and to compare them on June 1 with the actual number. It would also be amusing if we get a high percentage of Chrons members reporting, to get a sense of how many books out collections together represent. (Gulp!)
I'm going to estimate that I when I do my count will arrive at about 3,o00 books.
This will give everyone time to count their books, to take the opportunity to weed, and so on.
For myself, assuming I follow through (!), I intend to follow these guidelines:
1.Electronic books don't count.
2.Telephone books don't count. (See also #7 below.)
3.Books that are yours only for use during your time on a job don't count.
4.Bound volumes of magazines do count, but loose magazines don't count.
5.Items that one has bound with staples don't count as books. (I have a number of novels that I downloaded from Project Gutenberg, printed, and bound with large staples. I'm not going to count these as books.) However, something like a fan-published book that is bound with staples will count. I have Harry Warner's fan history A Wealth of Fable in the form of three mimeographed and stapled "volumes." It will count as one book. (But see #8 below.)
6.Diaries, personal journals, scrapbooks, and photo albums don't count as books.
7.Ephemera such as Penney's or Monkey Ward's catalogs, paperback almanacs, college catalogs, and bookseller catalogs don't count, but school and college yearbooks do count as books. I own four city directories. They will add four books to my count.
8.Each volume of a multi-volume book counts as a book. For example, the two-volume Ballantine Fantasy editions of The Night Land and The Well at the World's End will add up to four books, not two. A forty-volume encyclopaedia set counts as 40 books.
9.Duplicate copies of books certainly do count. The idea is to count books, not "titles."
10.I've been married for 33 years. For me, it's easy to say whether a given book is mine or my wife's. Others may think about this matter in other ways.
Again, I'd ask that people wait till June 1 to report their count at a thread to be called THE BOOK REPORT, so that we can have a one-day celebration (or, if this is how it feels, public confession!) of our book holdings; but till then it would be nice to hear from people who intend to participate, and to have comments on the above one person's criteria vs. your own, and whatever else seems appropriate. It might be amusing if people would like to post their estimate of how many books they have, and to compare them on June 1 with the actual number. It would also be amusing if we get a high percentage of Chrons members reporting, to get a sense of how many books out collections together represent. (Gulp!)
I'm going to estimate that I when I do my count will arrive at about 3,o00 books.
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