and the total is

449- four hundred and forty NINE.
Good thing I have Children of Hurin on the way. (just have to have a 1st ed. you know.)
I guess I have had more books in my life that have moved on. I have certainly read many, many more than this. But still...I thought I had more. There are a few in the basement, but I think they are outdated textbooks.
Someone out there has 90 of the same books as I ( and she has like 1200 books) so I may be perusing her library for new books!

Abject Falure!

Well, not really. I just entered a good portion of my library into library thing. And my total is only at 277 or so. I still have many more books to enter, but it looks like I will have under 500, maybe around 400. I am oddly upset that the number is so low. I did get rid of about 100 books a year or so ago. Books I would never read, or never cared to read again. I now think I should have kept them, just to have MORE books. Sad, yes? But perhaps not as sad as the fellow with 11,ooo+ books,and time to catalogue them all, but his profile seems pretty cool. So maybe we aren't sad, us bibliophiles. I figure I buy 50+ books a year, so, that's comforting...
Books are worse than one's yarn stash...