Am I the only one who has accumulated hundreds of Catholic and other religious books over the years?

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RebeccaJ said:
Reading has become more difficult on the eyes. I like ebooks for the fact that I can blow up the font to a reasonable size. Which is something like this. But the constant bright screen is the trade off.
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True.🙂
 
I have a couple audio versions of the Bible and I find that helpful…👍
 
Very well, thank you - I hope you are doing well yourself. 🙂
 
No. I have a lot of books and am still buying. When I reverted to the Catholic Church I sold all my books. Now I am filling up the shelves and bookcases with Catholic books. A lot of them books on the saints which I find inspiring. Amazon is great in obtaining older books. Treatise’s by the saints are hard to find in stores.

How are you with DVD’s? So many great Catholic based movies!!!
 
baptismal said:
No. I have a lot of books and am still buying. When I reverted to the Catholic Church I sold all my books. Now I am filling up the shelves and bookcases with Catholic books. A lot of them books on the saints which I find inspiring. Amazon is great in obtaining older books. Treatise’s by the saints are hard to find in stores.

How are you with DVD’s? So many great Catholic based movies!!!
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EWTN is a good source for that and they also show old Catholic movies…
 
Jimm B,

Any book recommendations? Not so much of a book about how Protestants are wrong, but a book or two you feel would help any mostly-right-thinking Christian in their lives of faith?

Thanks in advance!
 
benjohnson said:
Jimm B,

Any book recommendations? Not so much of a book about how Protestants are wrong, but a book or two you feel would help any mostly-right-thinking Christian in their lives of faith?

Thanks in advance!
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The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis… I’ll try to post more later…
 
Wow. Some like e-books. Me? I really don’t like them and find when I tried I was looking directly into a light and that hurt my eyes (cataracks). And somehow e-books seem sort of formal to me rather than for relaxed reading (just my personal taste I suppose).
I am concerned about the future here because bookstores are closing and new books are getting harder to find.

The pastor in my wife’s church stands during the sermons with some sort of device and waves her hand across it.
 
wondrousgnat said:
Wow. Some like e-books. Me? I really don’t like them and find when I tried I was looking directly into a light and that hurt my eyes (cataracks). And somehow e-books seem sort of formal to me rather than for relaxed reading (just my personal taste I suppose).
I am concerned about the future here because bookstores are closing and new books are getting harder to find.

The pastor in my wife’s church stands during the sermons with some sort of device and waves her hand across it.
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I can agree.
 
Jimmy_B said:
The only thing about all that reading is that it has taken a toll on my eye sight. I haven’t read an entire book in over a year now because I need a stronger prescription for my glasses and won’t able to get them for a couple more months… due to cost… I just remembered, I did read a book a couple months ago, it wasn’t a religious book though, it was more of a historical book and only had a couple hundred pages… . Aslo, I like charity shops and old, used books stores.
Thank you for your post.
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Jimmy -
Yes, my eyes are not what they used to be!

Along with my prescription glasses I use readers from the The Dollar Tree. I use them all the time! (Can’t beat reading glasses for a dollar! :D)
 
Jimmy_B said:
Why? 🙂
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Quite a few reasons, actually, which I think should be better talked about out of this forum. Let’s just say that when I realized it, and saw as well what is happening, then I have to find the Church which has continued to maintain the practice and teachings of the early Church, and that led me to the Orthodox Church.
 
No you are not alone. I have been getting Catholic books as well. Just recently got Pope Benedict books: Jesus of Nazareth Infancy narratives, The Apostles, The Fathers
 
I have had hundreds of religoius books, mostly Catholic. But I gave many away when I moved from a seven room house (exspensive to heat and cool and hard to keep clean) into a small trailer. I gave a lot of Orthodox books to the library which had none.
 
andrewstx said:
I have had hundreds of religoius books, mostly Catholic. But I gave many away when I moved from a seven room house (exspensive to heat and cool and hard to keep clean) into a small trailer. I gave a lot of Orthodox books to the library which had none.
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You could always get a storage unit…🙂
 
I counted 800 about 30 years ago. I’ve gotten rid of maybe 100 but have slowed down buying, way down. (Whoever has 25,000 has enough for a library certainly).

On one wall I have 2 shelves = 6 feet by 6 feet of:

1 row each - Bibles, Blessed Mother/Marian, vintage Fulton Sheen, Saints, Catechisms,
Philosophy (including Gonzaga Philosophical Dictionary & entire Summa) Spirituality, Bible Study & Shroud related, Christian Arts: music, paintings, Christian Fiction, Christian Psych

4 feet high of JW, 2 feet high of LdS, 2 foot of New Age, about 300 Cookbooks, hobbies

Hubby has boxes of Sci Fi, Tom Clancy, mysteries, music, etc.

I won’t bore you with CD’s, Videos, DVD Movies & Tapes… Now 3D Blue Rays… ugh…

I know I’ll have to find a home for this stuff eventually! It’s a disease.😊

PS got some real gems in thrift stores a quarter each especially JW/LDS stuff.
Bottom line 2500 books alone?? or more???
 
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