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Hi. I've seen there is someone who owns nearly 10000 books and I was wondering where do they keep them all. I've given up "real books" ages ago, after my husband threatened me to leave if I didn't put a stop to buying books but then, thankfully, iPad and similar came to life and I started to buy ebooks. Still, you need a lot of storage for 10000 books and there's always the risk of loosing them all in once. What trick do you use, if any?

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Even if they're not 10,000, 3,500 is still a lot of books and you must have quite a house 😁 So of course you prefer real books.. having room I would prefer them too but piles and boxes of books would not be possible in my case because I don't have a basement and my son suffer a very severe dust allergy. I do have a fantasy library too but I'm afraid it will remain a fantasy 😬

No, it's not a big house - 1,600 sq ft. But the cookbooks are a major part of it!

I really do not know how many books I own.  What it shows here 2899 but that includes over 780 kindle books and I suppose ckbk books.  But, I own much more than that because I think I have over 700 or so books in English language not counted in EYB as well as over 1000-1300 Japanese language cookbooks not counted in EYB.  Fortunately Japanese cookbboks tend to be much thinner due to house sizes in Japan.  

i have one bedroom I use as my own study and have half the books there.  Other 50% are in entryway with big bookcases on the wall leading to our living room along with builtin separating two areas.   And our house is not big compared to most houses in the neighborhood.  I am slowly culling magazines though.  I try to buy English language cookbooks now in kindle format due to lack of space but with Japanese language cookbooks, Amazon won't allow kindle books outside of prmary country. 

My husband has never complained about my books because he loves all the food that comes out of our kitchen.  Plus, he has built a separate structure  behind our detached garage for his model trains and handmade layouts which is his passion.  We both have our own passions and it works for us. 

My husband built a double bed for me (we sleep in separate rooms for medical reasons) which is a large box with a mattress on top. It is quite high and hold a lot of books. It makes it difficult to get them in and out, a two person job, but does provide a storage place until the fantasy house arrives. The rest are in floor to ceiling bookcases, also in the bedroom. They are starting to pile up again in other places, 'tho, so many wonderful books have been published. 

Years ago I asked for IKEA bookcases with glass doors for Christmas for my cookbooks and some knickknacks I wanted to display.  At our old house these filled one wall floor to ceiling in a spare bedroom.  I also had a long lower 2-shelf bookcase in the dining room with cookbooks.  Now in our current home the tall bookshelves fit along a really wide hallway adjacent to the dining room and next to the kitchen.  The lower bookcases fit perfectly in the dining room which only has a half wall between it and the hallway.  It works perfectly for me because I can pull out cookbooks or cooking magazines and spread them out on the dining room table to browse and I am right next to the kitchen.  Of course the knickknacks are long gone as more cookbooks arrived and needed the space but I don't miss them.

Only 1,361 cookbooks in EYB, at least until today's delivery with four more. The books are stored on Bookshelves, in boxes, and stacks on top of boxes. For the cookbooks in boxes I've numbered the boxes and bookmarked which cookbooks are in each of the boxes.

I have a collection of nearly 900 physical books and around 200 digital ones. Many of them aren´t listed on Eat Your Books (EYB) due to the language, as my collection includes books primarily in Spanish, Catalan, French, and German. Most of these are stored in a single room in my home.