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I think there is for kid books. They're not going to read these books forever and my 5.5 year old has been bored with our books for quite awhile so we need to utilize the library for her.

For adult books, the more the merrier! We love to collect books.

We love books. We have several book cases for my kiddos books. I am firmly in the camp of the more the merrier!

Oh gosh I believe in too much of a good thing, but we strive for minimalism at our house, and constantly make goodwill piles. I'd say LO has about 50 books, and I recently got rid of 10-15 that we never read, but I am ok with adding new books.

I think you can never have too many. That said, I did recently sell our most babyish books and I think I'll be able to weed out more baby books in the next few months, but we had maybe 250 children's books. We don't really buy toys except for birthdays or Christmas, but we are much more generous about buying books. The only real downfall is if you move. Books are a pain to transport!

We have hardly any. We go to the library every week and get new ones. She loves it! I have moved almost every year (3 places and she is 2, for example), and don't prefer posessions.

I think it is cool though and that kids are lucky to have books!

Team No Such Thing As Too Many Books!

I do separate them out though and make sure that everything that is out is age appropriate. We received loads of books when DD1 was younger that were far too wordy for her attention span, so I've kept those packed away and have gradually been introducing them as her attention span grows. I do the opposite with the baby books - it's been on my list to pack up some of the touch and feel baby books, and baby's first words books, as both LOs have outgrown them by now.

The other thing I do is rotate location of books - DD1 has a bookshelf in her room, as does DD2, we have a bookshelf in the playroom, and a basket of books in the lounge. By moving them around a bit, it varies the books they look at a bit more as they use each location very differently (eg DD1's bedroom books are ones she generally looks at independently during nap time/rest time, playroom books are ones I generally read aloud during the day, etc).

Other than that though, the more books the better!

I feel like we have enough. I'm not against more books but we have to rotate them as it is and there are plenty she has never read... so, kind of? Haha!

No, I just rotate them!

@pinkcupcake: Agreed. We have received a lot of books as gifts or hand-me-downs that are pretty meh.

@looch: I have tried to use the library more for topical books, like if we need to read about a specific problem we're having ("Hands Are Not For Hitting") or seasonal books. But for example at Halloween almost all the Halloween books were checked out by Oct 1! So you really have to be on it!

Yes. We have a lot of books we don't need. Duplicates and others that have been read out in this house - not favorites anymore. You can have too many books!

I think I'm close to my limit on picture books. We have a lot of them and use them daily. However, I ruthlessly weed out and donate ones that don't pass my "I love this" test.

I use the library a lot (at least weekly, and often more frequently) and love it, but it has limitations. There are excellent books that are out of print or really hard to find in library systems and some are amazing works of art that I want to enjoy in volumes that are free from peanut butter smears. Those are the ones I have bought for our collection.