[ SECRET POST #6572 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6572 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

How many would qualify as huge? ...asking for a friend.

[(Anonymous)]

lol

[(Anonymous)]

Coming here to ask the same question lol

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, that label would better describe billionaires.

[(Anonymous)]

There can be only one?

[(Anonymous)]

There are many kinds of hoarder.

[(Anonymous)]

i don't know that i'd agree with the hoarder term, but i do think people are more into the hobby of buying books than actually making the time to read them. my sister is one of those people, who owns 300ish books, and hasn't read more than half of them. for comparison's sake, i've got around 650 and have less than 50 on my tbr. i've never understood people buying books they won't read.

[(Anonymous)]

You say hoarder like it’s a bad word.

[(Anonymous)]

Haording is not something to be proud of.

Signed, child of hoarders who had to grow up in that nonsense and then deal with it again when parents aged and died.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. Hoarding is a problem because of all the rotting food and trash. Because it reduces the quality AND quantity of living space. Books aren't a problem until they get wet, and even then the carpet/furniture is probably also a problem.

I'm not saying having a ton of books you won't read is "good"* but let's not pathologize slightly quirky behavior.

*They're heavy as FUCK ok?!? I had to help sort/sell/donate my Grandmother's stash of 1000s of books and it was HARD. I wish she'd used the library more often. But if she'd had super heavy furniture or a rock collection it would have been just as hard.

[(Anonymous)]

That isn't true at all. Many people just hoard newspapers and such.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I watch Hoarders and there was definitely an episode where the couple hoarded books and the books were the problem because they were so heavy that they were causing structural damage to their house.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, hoarding ANYTHING is a problem. It doesn't matter what it is. And yes, people can absolutely hoard books-- I point at my parents who have shelves upon shelves of books that they literally have never even touched in 30+ years. I don't think they even remember what books they own at this point, which means that they don't actually care about the books at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I will happily accept my hoarder status. I have 232 books on my tbr, but I also read 199 last year and 122 the year before. I'm just a mood reader so I like having options.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this is a problem. But I guess as long as you live alone and aren't impacting anyone else, you do you.

[(Anonymous)]

Hoarding is more than just owning a lot of one thing, or many things, it's about it taking over the living space of person to dangerous levels and making the space pretty much uninhabitable(to those not hoarding). My mum is a hoarder and growing up with that was difficult.

People who have a habit of buying new books while they still have unread ones on their shelves mainly just have poor impulse control, and I can't bring up much effort to care about that or get judgey. It's not my house, they can collect lint rollers for all I care.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeha, unless the TBR books start taking up soace in the house/living area and are creeping into negative habitable space area, it isnt hoarding.

Though tbf I do know hoarders that books were one of their main things they collected. I just doubt that is really who OP is addressing.

[sparklywalls]

I was about to get all "hey don't call me out like this!" about the secret (in a jovial way) but this comment has made me feel a bit better because yeah, my tbr pile is a bit ridiculous but not "it's taken over my house" ridiculous. I just have a couple of shelves in my bookshelves full of books I've not read yet, and yes sometimes I ban myself from buying new books until I've made more progress.

A nice problem I have is my mother in law knows I like reading so she always gets me vouchers for a bookstore every Christmas/birthday and I've not necessarily made a big dent in my backlog before I buy another 5-10 books.

[tabaqui]

I would probably fall into this possible definition but frankly, I just do not have the extra money to buy every book that looks interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

IDC what anyone else does but honestly this is why I switched to ebooks. My husband and I had too many books so we got rid of half and try to stick to digital copies for any new purchases. We still have thousands of books that take up an entire room and I wish we could use that room for anything else. But my husband was raised by legit hoarders and isn’t able to downsize the home library again just yet.

[(Anonymous)]

Nuh ah, I identify as a dragon XD

[(Anonymous)]

And that is why I started hoarding ebooks instead. Much better for my back when I moved to a new apartment!

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who had to live with an actual hoarder for 18 years...this kind of pisses me off, ngl. There's a big difference between "hehe look at all these books I haven't read on my shelves" and "I have rooms towering with things, a lot of which are actual trash, to the point I cannot walk in the room and having people over is an embarrassing nightmare".

[(Anonymous)]

Book hoarding, at the very least, means the hoarder is literate! And what's wrong with that?