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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2010, 06:25:59 AM »
1. I have I'm guessing about 500 books give or take. Mostly classics/ tech books/ Health and the majority contemporary lit.

2. I put them all in my room now but I'm trying to convert my other room into a library/ den and put bookshelves up

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2010, 12:07:24 AM »
about 100 pa lang books ko kasi ngayon madalang na ko bumili. usually pag gusto ko yung author, yung books nila yung binibili ko like grisham, crichton, maeve binchy, janet evanovich, toby young, north patterson. madami akong chick lit, supense/mystery, tsaka mga short stories. yung iba random stuff na lang.

tsaka pala oprah's book club selection. kaya lang lately hindi na ko gaano bumibili ng ganun kasi parang ang hilig niya sa puro unfaithful husbands. lol.

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2010, 04:01:59 AM »
I have less than a hundred lang. Those that i havent read in a while are in balikbayan boxes cus there's no space to put a bookshelf in our room. All my magazines (Cosmo, Preview, Seventeen) that i have collected since HS were either given away or stashed in our guestroom and all around the living room.
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2010, 01:27:44 PM »
My Collection of Books are the following:
1. Books of Paulo Coelho
2. Books of Sophie Kinsella
3. Chicken Soup books
4. Dan Brown Books
5. Jane Green books
6. Emily Griffin

plus

- Time Traveller's Wife
- The Notebook
- Eat Pray and Love
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #24 on: June 19, 2010, 10:43:12 PM »
i have shelves upon shelves of books. i think majority of my room is comprised of books, DVDs, and makeup. lol.

my conservative estimate is about 600 books, in my room alone. not counting yung mga hindi na nasoli sa akin.

but i have around 5-6 gig's worth of ebooks now.

my book collection is:

60% romance - which i like to call "research" lol! as i fancy myself as a romance writer sometimes... (even took the writing workshop of a large publishing house in QC)
10% chic lit
5% tagalog romance, (again, research)
5% pop culture (popular in this generation cuelho, meyer, rowling, sparks, esquivel, grisham, sheldon etc)
5% self help books.
15% a little of everything else, from every fiction genre to non-fiction ones. law books included, tho i count them as fiction! lol :D
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #25 on: June 21, 2010, 01:42:15 AM »
i added:
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #26 on: June 21, 2010, 02:00:23 AM »
I love my Delicious Library application. I was able to catalog my book collection. So far I have 594. I still have a lot to catalog kasi tamad pa ko maghanap ng album art sa ibang books and yung iba, doble yung bili ko so di matanggap ng app na 2 siya :P

I only have 1 book na di nasauli at di ko na rin mahanap sa book stores. Sad.

The top of my bookshelf consists of HB books. Yung malalaki talaga, not the TP size na HB. Andun yung mga autobios, box set ng HP, 2 set ng Twilight Saga, Percy Jackson, my Love Stories collection, etc...

Sa first shelf naman, I have all my YA books. Isama na rin ang mga adult vampire series nila Charlaine Harris and MaryJanice Davidson.

Sa second shelf, yung mga di na nagkasya sa first shelf. Plus yung mga fiction novels ko.

Sa third shelf, puro TP na. Halo halo from fiction to chick lits.

Sa last shelf, lahat ng PB ko.

I actually realized, I don't own a horror book aside from Bram Stoker's Dracula haha! and I don't own a Stephen King novel.

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #27 on: June 26, 2010, 12:43:12 AM »
Inspirational books (Paulo Coelho, Mitch Albom, Nicholas Sparks, Randy Pausch, etc.) pero karamihan english romance pocketbooks (Anne Mallory, Nan Ryan, Lorraine Heath, Connie Mason, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Johanna Lindsey, Sandra Brown, Teresa Medeiros, etc.)

Lately, mga vampire books naman (Stephenie Meyer, Kerrelyn Sparks, Christine Feehan, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, etc.)

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #28 on: July 02, 2010, 06:16:43 PM »
i don't know how many books i have in my shelf, pag uwi ko bilangin ko  ;D. i read according to interests, so iba ibang klase sya. mostly memoirs and autobiographies. self help, health and fitness, fictions, classics, etc. mas marami ang paperback kesa sa hardbound and 70 percent are covered with plastics.  for now, hindi muna ako masyado bumibili ng books dahil wala ng enough space for them. lahat sila nasa room ko lang, bawal ilabas kasi ayoko kung sino sino ang humiram. mahirap kasi pag hindi na naisoli. ;D
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #29 on: July 06, 2010, 12:42:15 PM »
I have lots of books.  The first ever I collected was the Sweet Valley Twins and High, Archie comics and Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys.  They are in our family house sa province.  Meron kasi kami, little cabinet na andon mga yon.  Buhay pa raw sabi ng sis ko na nagpunta don with my parents.

Sa house namin ngayon, meron din siya malaking estante na don na namin nilagay ng sis ko mga books namin.  Medyo nahinto ako sa pagbili ng mga books, pero my sister 'inherited' it from me.  Sosyalan nga lang siya kasi mula Harry Potter at Twilight, hard bound ang kinollect nia.  Pero mga magaganda lang hardbound niya. 

Ngayon, book collections ko are e-books and I will buy an external hard disk to recreate my 'e-book library'.
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #30 on: July 07, 2010, 02:32:19 PM »
my collection is comprised of the ff:
1)  books by john grisham
2)  books by steve berry
3)  books by dan brown
4)  books by erich segal
5)  books by paolo coelho (though i stopped buying na)
6)  books by mitch albom
7)  harry potter books
8.) sherlock holmes books

the sweet valley and hardy boys books during my teens have already been sold several years ago. i also had enid blyton story books when i was a kid, these were given away na rin when i outgrew them.
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #31 on: July 16, 2010, 10:26:04 AM »
I used to have a lot of books. I don't know exactly how many there had been, but the shelves spanned a whole wall (floor to ceiling) in my room at my parents' house. It's a big room. Some books occupied shelves in hallways, a lot more stored in cardboard boxes in storage. Marami nang naipamigay, pero mahilig at mabilis akong magbasa since I was little, kaya ayun, naipon.

I said used to, coz most of them naging biktima ni ondoy. There were probably only about 500 good ones left after the cleanup. Yung iba pa doon ipinamigay ko na rin sa fellow book lovers. Mas madalang na akong bumili ngayon usually nonfiction and a few classics I love to reread.

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #32 on: July 23, 2010, 10:48:15 AM »
less than 50. but if i kept all the books i've bought since high school, siguro aabot ng 1000, more or less.

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #33 on: September 01, 2010, 11:46:07 AM »
Siguro more or less 500 books. I never gave away my Sweet Valley Collection which is more than 200++ books na :P Ewan ko may attachment pa rin ako sa Sweet Valley books ko kasi part of my growing up years ko sila. :D

Some Books I Collect are from Authors:

1. Paulo Coelho
2. Sophie Kinsella
3. Stephenie Meyer
4. Meg Cabot
5. Michael Crichton
6. Erich Segal
7. Danielle Steele
8. Stephen King
9. Nicholas Sparks
10. Anne Perry
11. Phillippa Gregory
12. Dan Brown

I also have IT, management, chic-lits from contemporary authors, classic novels and self help books. Basta pag nasa bookstore ako, any kind of books that interest me binibili ko usually. Walang specific genre pero basta gusto ko, go lang. Medyo maarte lang ako pagdating sa mga favorite authors ko. 

My books collection shelves covers almost half of my room. Usually yung mga guests namin na relatives din namin can't help but comment na parang natutulog sila sa library dahil nakakalat sa buong kwarto yung mga books. Even yung mga barkada ng sister ko na nag sleep over sa bahay yun din ang observation. Few years ago I also bought two shelves pero puno na naman sila kaya yung ibang books nakalagay nalang sa bedside table sa room

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #34 on: September 01, 2010, 11:58:23 AM »
halos lahat books ko ay children's book at classics. mamaya macatergorize nga

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #35 on: October 14, 2010, 10:31:24 PM »
The ones in my room now, ones I've read and ones I've yet to finish reading, about 50? Di ko alam kung ilan yung nasa Manila eh. Just fiction, siguro aabot kami ni Ate sa 150-200. My own collection is 95% fiction. No self-help though. ;)

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #36 on: November 02, 2010, 12:45:58 PM »
I have a library. :) I love books. Too bad reading nowadays is being eclipsed by too much internet surfing :(

I have my most favorite books
- Harry Potter
- Meg Cabot books
- Chicken Soup for the Soul
- Bo Sanchez
- Ambeth Ocampo

I have my Chick Lit section
- Gossip Girl
- A- List
- Princess Diaries

I have my Lifestyle section
- How to Walk in High Heels
- Travel books

Magazines
- Vogue, Glamour, Preview, Mega and others

I love reading !!! :)
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #37 on: December 17, 2010, 12:07:32 PM »
I have lots of books but often after reading them, I lend the books or sell them.

The books that I keep with me are usually hardbound books.

My most prized books are my Cooking related books, since some are not available in Pinas and pinapasuyo ko pa sa mga friends abroad to get them. Sabi ng friend ko apra daw encyclopedia sa kakapal nung mga Cookbooks haha but care! I love these books. Eto lang talagang mga books na ito ang gusto kong maglast until I'm gone haha papamana ko, chos!

Yung mga books na di ko sinesell or pinamimigay kahit paperback lang are mostly business and entrep. related books.

Yung mga novels usually I sell them or lend/give them away.:-)

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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #38 on: January 19, 2011, 04:57:16 PM »
I have complete series of
Harry Potter
Twilight Series
5-6 books from Paulo Coelho
3 books from Mitch Albom
pati kay Bob Ong's book meron ako completo ako up to his latest book ;D
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Re: Describe your book collection
« Reply #39 on: January 22, 2011, 09:39:28 PM »
Close to 100 siguro sila, all of them are historical romance pocket books. The authors are: Brenda Joyce, Katherine Hart, Tanya Anne Crosby, Judith E. French, Samantha James, Lisa Kleypas  :)
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