I would argue that the number of books seen in the photograph is "not even nearly enough books". Sadly, most of mine are gone forever - my ex didn't share my love of books, and so the vast majority of my collection went to a landfill site within days of our marriage ending. Many of them were virtually irreplaceable, having been first editions signed by the author, very old or discovered on book markets in Belgium and the Netherlands.

I used to have lots of books, but I have moved too many times to want to accumilate a collection of them again.

Most of us generally tend to read a book only once.

I noticed you didn’t say “buy”.

Just finished packing up all my books!!! (Several hundred) I had to take a quick look at each one just to be sure that life itself did not depend on a few of them! I ended up with maybe 50...even as I intended to release all of them! There is so much wisdom in these books (they are non-fiction). It has been painful, but i cannot get books in a 'tiny house,' 1500 miles away! So I will have to trust, that I got all that I could use out of these tresures and go forward into a new day, for new wisdom! Why do I think that I should have memorized all those books and it wouldn't matter now?

How could someone ever say that you can have too many books! It's sacrilegious!

I love books and I have a few boxes full that I can't be without. But I'm not a collector of anything, including books. I love the library. Nice pic, BTW

The day I knew my relationship wouldn't last was the day he said "why don't you get a kindle and get rid of all these books?". Bye Felicia.

I am saying YES because I've moved 23 times, and most were courtesy of and paid for by the military. When I split with my ex and had to fund moves on my own, and realized I had stacks and stacks of books I was never going to read again, I started offloading all those books. I sold probably a ton of books at HalfPriceBooks. I am a Yuge fan of the local library.

Well, not seeing an option I like, I'll just say, read a book and pass it along, if you don't wish to read the same one again.

Yes - if books are crowding you out of your living spaces. However - we needn't keep them all to gain their riches . So - can you READ too many ? Never !

There can never be too many books...I have been an avid reader allmy life;a bookseller, and a professional journalist. NEVER too many books! I have piles, and boxes, and shelves of 'em!

I have more books than I will probably ever read. And yet I buy more. They take a significant amount of room in my house. I recently read "A Prayer for Owen Meany." The copy I had was old and as I read the book it was falling apart. I felt bad tossing away the parts of the book when I was done, while at the same time it felt like a relief to be able to get rid of at least one book cluttering my house.

My goal is to have a library in my house some day.

If your collection is similar to a public libraries, mostly fiction, you have too many books.

When I purchased my retirement home , my ,"little ," brother , phoned our Mom and told her , to tell me to get rid of my books . Mom can read a hard back in a day , and where she lived , they sent a library truck weekly to drop off her stack of books for the week . I told Mom , the new-to-me house I'd just bought , came with a library . We laughed . I have an additional three book cases , and a large portion of the shelves in the library are double stacked . I've read all except those in a foreign language , at least once , and sometimes more often . The nice thing about growing older is , memory fades , and I can reread a book without knowing how it's going to end . Had a man once tell me , that keeping books , was like owning a trophy case . My response was , it's more like a room full of friends , I can reread them when I can't get around , or loose power , I can share special ones with other friends , if you stack them on outside walls , they provide insulation for a cold room , they're decorative , they improve your mind , expand your knowledge , and in a dire emergency , if you loose heat during a horrible winter storm , and you're really , really desperate , you can maybe , put your least favorite in the fireplace .

I've become a minimalist over the past 10 years or so. It's not necessarily about too many books. It's about too many things, period. I find myself perpetually downsizing. I don't hang on to anything unless I use it regularly or have plans to do something with it in the fairly immediate future. The only exception is my toolbox. I don't currently use it, but I know if times get tough, I can drag it out & have a decent job within a day or two, if needed.

It's only too much when you start collecting what your not interested in

Only when you are moving!

My husband and I went to the bookstore yesterday and bought 5 more books to add to our collection. Between my books and my kindle I have plenty to keep me busy for months. That won't stop me from buying more the next time I'm near a book store. It's probably a good thing I live more than an hour away from one.

Only if they are rubbish. I collect books.

is that photo taken in my bedroom ?

Depends on how many bookcases fit in your home

I grew up in a house where the walls were lined with bookshelves and there were still piles on tables! These days, I get most of my books digitally, but that just means more room, so why not more books too?

No such thing.

When I was mobile and moving a lot I had to weed my book collection often for practicality. I only kept what I couldn't part with. They were mostly second hand paperbacks, and I'd read all of them multiple times.
Then I lived in a group house in Boulder CO and a woman moved in and filled all common space with shelves of books--not collectors' stuff, just books.
I thought it was great. I saw some tiles I recognized and asked her opinion of their worth. Every time, she said, "I haven't read that one yet."
She was my opposite! In terms of owning books she knew, she had fewer than I did. It was all for show. She owned too many books.