If this were a poll,

[ZatarRufus]

This looks like more than just curiosity on your part. Will our data be used in some sort of study? Could you elaborate a bit (after the "poll" has closed, if needed)?

It is active curiosity on my part. It came about as I am currently trying to sort my books into a limited space. My home has two bedrooms and up until about three years ago one of them was devoted entirely to my library and was very well organized. Then my sister, who is disabled had to move since her roomate of 15+ years decided to get married. Her income is limited to SSD and it seemed best to move her in with me. I had to quickly box almost all of my books and pile them in the living room and my bedroom. (I've been living it what looks like a wharehouse since then.) Anyhow, I've just started un-boxing and sorting which got me to thinking that Lurkers probably have similar large libraries as compared to the average person.

This also got me to wondering which books would be top priority for me to read and I thought a thread here at the Lounge might provide some interesting results for myself as well as for other Lurkers.

My library is at least category 6 but could easily be over 1000. Over the past 10 years I've been in roughly 100 homes per year to appraise their value and I've noticed that only 2-3% of them have an extensive library and about 5% have a moderate library. My gut feeling is that Lurkers would represent a different segment than these 'average' people.

It also seems to me that it would give another way for Lurkers to learn more about their friends here by showing what their main interests are by the books they have and which three they would select in my scenario.

The data will not be used for anything other than what it is here on the Lounge.