I don’t think he’s obsessed. He’s a book enthusiast and there’s nothing wrong with that. A house without books is like a body without a soul.

Book collectors are always interesting to listen to.

That house, must smell amazing. I would love to wake up in that cozy, warm house, sit by the fireplace with a very good book and a cup of coffee in the most comfortable chair..... that, is true paradise

These old books on dusty shelves have warmed my heart and soul, And take me back to better times when men were brave and bold. Old faces hanging on my wall begin to crack with laughter and push me on to cuddle up and read another chapter!

Every time I finish a book I feel like I am a different person, like I have changed because it's like the book I've read is a part of my personality.

Good for you. I'm 30 and feel the same way about my peers. Your lucky I'm Dyslexic so I was unable to read a full book until I was about 23 and I've been trying to make up for it ever since.

This is a life goal! I have a total of 994 books in my room alone and my collection is growing! Many are rare and some are even leather bound professionally! Loved the video!

Well, it looks like I need to step up my game when it comes to book collecting. Thanks for the inspiration!

Allright, allright... my grandpa could learn from this dude... he only had 20.000 books...

No way I’ll ever have that many books but I’m constantly reading and I buy 2-3 books every other week or so or if I find something on sale. Reading has been the greatest comfort in my life…nothing else matters when I lose myself in a good book.

If it will make you feel any better or worse: If you set out to read one book each week, you'll reach somewhere around 1,000 books in 20 years.

My book collection is only at 10,000 and I don't think I'll live long enough to read them all. I'm in the buffet line and my plate is already full. If I live, I'll be an obese savant !

I wish I had that collection. That is my new standard to how big I want my personal collection.

I love his collection of books. I'm slowly catching up to him..

Does anyone else think that old books smell amazing? There's a whole variety of different smells. One of the reasons why I don't like ebooks

Wow makes me feel better about my collection I have about 400 so I am no where near that yet lol 😄😄😄😄 but I love books

"THe thing that I love about people's first novels is that they try to put everything they know about life into it, because it might be their last book" that's so interesting, and only someone who enjoys books as much as he do can come up with that. I couldn't, but I'll remember what he said haha.

They need to make more of these videos. They are awesome!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Good for you Joe, a great collection.

I'm sure he has read plenty of the books we saw in this video, but, I am curious to know how many he has and hasn't read out of the books he personally owns.

i want to live in a house filled with books

This is amazing.... Sir, I salute you for having those kind of books... Bless u.. you have an interesting life to have those books....

omg it like looking into my future

Keeps his books nice and neat, arranged in order, knows which books are where. Not cool to take over daughter's room with his collection, but everything is in its place and he seems to know just what he has in his collection. It's not like piles of books messily all over the place scattered on the floor like uncontrolled hoarders do. My husband and I are big readers and prefer to own our own books over the limited public library offerings, but every few months or at least a couple of times a year we "weed out" any seldom-read or never re-read books on our shelves, or anything we've just lost interest in, and get them into a box (es) to donate to the thrift store or library used book sale if friends do not want them. We regularly purchase new and used books in our interest range but don't want to be overwhelmed with clutter or items we would "never be able to get around to eventually reading," so can honestly say we've read all the many books in our home, and there are books in every room but kitchen, bathroom and basement, but all on shelves & arranged by subject or our own personal specification of category. I am of the opinion that when books fill the attic, basement, and garage, there are too many books to keep track of and to prvent from mildew, grime and mold.

I love books

Wow amazing collection.

Looks like a delightful life to me, regardless of whether it is 'obsessed' or not. To each their own. My preference is for white shelves, but again, to each his/her own.

My paltry collection of 2,455 books is nothing! LOL! You put them in your attic! Can't do it in Texas!!!!!

I love book collectors ❤😌. I used to try and collect books. But, its a challenge just keeping a roof over my head lool.

I don`t judge you Joe Perlman. I applaud you.

My kind of laddie. Its true. Each book evoking strange olfactory sensations. Truly old older oldest books gives you a olfactory sense of time. It would be ancient time constant if any body thought over it in Renaissance

yes!! you are sooo right! elinors house is a place I dreamed of forever.

@TheUniverse3000 Exactly!! I have over 200 books and my dad says "You shouldn't get any more books." And I say "It's fun reading and collecting!! And what you said really is what I've been trying to say!!! Thank you!! ByEsErS1!1!

Muy interesante, buen punto de partida para meditar que los libros son como las enredaderas!! se pueden tragar una casa!!

Your collection is incredible! Thanks for the recommendations.

1000 likes... this are the videos I love!

I've just purchased 2 medieval rooms in Italy, near my overflowing villa & art-gallery, to further decant masses of my books & to prepare even more space for further purchases. The builders are rapidly working on room 2, with the 1st finished except for internal doors. My living room is fit for a minor Renaissance prince, as I collect art, carpets ETC but I'm seriously looking forward to decorating the new rooms, with fitted bookcases, carpets, desks, paintings and objects. I've written a vast illustrated volume which is still ongoing & 50+ years in the making: hopefully some of it can be placed in display cabinets, because books especially are IT.

I adore this video. B&N- please produce more Book Obsessed videos!!

I used to read one book per day, taking weekends off. Those were in my early academic days. Now it's more like two per week.

You sir are my hero.. Take that husband of mine.. and I thought my 500plus was a great amount.. I can only dream of being as big as this gentleman some day..We are not hoarders, we are collectors of the written word. So many books so little time.

Brilliant

I wish B&N would continue to make these videos. They are great.

I get the feeling my house won't have visible walls..just bookshelves. xD Hmm we have one hundred years of solitude in the basement, I may just pick it up, my interest is peaked.

The author of "A Gentle Madness" pronounced me one of the "gently mad" at a lecture and kindly inscribed my copy of his book accordingly. Alas I've had to pare my book collection down to a more manageable size. It's been painful and I'm curious to see if I can curb my book lust in the future.

Awesome video, thanks a million books! Now in no certain order: 1984 (okay, yes, it's my favorite), FAKE, Clifford Irving, Miles From Nowhere, Barbara Savage(don't read the back cover until the end!), Full Tilt, Dervla Murphy, I Caught Flies for Howard Hughes, Ron Kistler, A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole (I got so into Ignatius that I wanted to meet him!!), A One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, Robert Gover, The Uneasy Chair, Wallace Stegner, The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber - I love $5 per bag!

i am a book obsessed too. but my collection does not exceed 1000 books because i live in a country where english books are not fully available and there's no way for me to buy via internet. i envy you best wishes

You can learn a lot about someone by the books they surround themselves with.

yeah it is amazing. And it only happens with books for me. Not with movies not with music...;)

A wonderful short--great topic.

Living my dream

I live in Morocco, you see.. Take care

It was very interesting and enjoyable video. Thanks.

I have an issue I am obcessed with books but yet read very little.

We share bibliomania. It’s a beautiful thing my friend.

@LuckyGuu A One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding is a trilogy. Also read, Atlas Shrugged (of course) and Missing Beauty, Carpenter. I encourage everyone to read about Howard Hughes! *You will never stop buying! You may need a stronger house. Q: Where are your favorite "types" of places to buy books?

@CSATexan since my Dad is 86.5 he has lost interest in reading(very sad because he is the one who "imprinted" the love of reading on my soul), anyway, he said I can have all his books..........which I plan to trade for book credit, so expand my collection!

Well done.great books

@CSATexan 4....................that's amazingly low, how come? Lately I've been buying "collectable" paperbacks from 1950-1970s. The covers are great! Have you ever collected any of these? Some are worth $10-$50+! I buy them for 25-100 cents, don't tell anyone.

Amazing

When your entire attic is full of books you're not sure what you're gonna do with that's called "hoarding" not collecting.

@JAMESMCCULLA yes! I'm a sucker for a great book jacket and should have moved to NYC directly after HS graduation to make it my 2nd career, along with Bellman! Yes, Bellmen are sexy, if only sexy on the inside!

um think u need to go to the library after the attic is full lol

@CSATexan how many books did you buy this month?

well, i guess his son and daughter will never have to ask him to get a book for them, cuz he'll probably already have it!

35,000? My God thats a lot of books but what I really wana know is does he really read all of them?

God, one poorly placed candle and that place is gone.

I missed reading a novel!!!

I hope he never has to fumigate for dust mites...

I wonder if someone bought all the Harry Potter Items cuz I'd love to see it.

very interesting, but the first thing that comes to mind is hoarder.

The name for this habit is "tsundoku".

He must have been pissed when kindle came out...

I think Jefferson owned around that many books.

He's like Don Quixote LOL:-)

@2:03. I collect Allison ? Short stories. Anyone know what her last name is?

Amazing collection. Have you read (1Q84 by) Haruki Murakami?

Alice Munro just won the Nobel so not under appreciated anymore, Mr Perlman.

So jealous. I travelled around so much since childhood that I could never keep a physical library. I do keep thousands of Ebooks though.

I hope that he has an extra pair of glasses on hand. He doesn't want a Mr. Bemis situation on hand. #timeenoughatlast

No Twilight ?

A couple of years ago I started reading "the classics" and I was really disappointed. I learned that it's best to stop wasting time reading a book that you're not really into. I'm okay with not completing a book. Time is a precious commodity and I will not waste it on books that I don't like. There are some classics that I really do like but I will stop taking people's recommendations from now on.

Always had more books than bookshelf space.

This would drive me bananas having all this shit piled up in the house. However...I find collectors extremely interesting in their life styles.

You sir are my hero.. Take that husband of mine..

My dad keeps telling me to download digital books, forget that!!!!

Wouldn't that be the funniest thing if he didn't have Harry Potter in that entire collection.

I only have 2,000 books...Oh Dear....

Ahaa' ma freen' A'l bet yee hinna got "Thi lyfe an tymes o an enshoar loon!! Gordon

Love theses beautiful books. #tandolls757.

@calebengler LOL!! Soooooo true!! =)

I want to go to his house ahahhahaha so ok baaaddd.

I already have 1500 books and I can't buy much more because of space. Imagine 35000...

interesting, but music is really intrusive

this guy would like a library card!

I thought my wife and I had a lot. Over 2500

I hope the basement, garage, and attic have climate control. I volunteer for the Red Cross Book Fair in Bloomington, IN, and people sometimes give us books that have clearly been in a garage or basement: dirt, bugs, mouse droppings. Thankfully most donations are OK. Recently in the area for recyclables I found a 1930 Shakespeare & Co. copy of "Ulysses". Whew! close call!

Me in the future, now i have only 200 or 300 =)

do you read harry potter

I collect coins