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How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to?

So far I own around 300 vinyl albums all purchased in a last 20 years. Even while I listen to for about 10 albums a week it seems I want to keep adding more and more to my library. I wonder if there is a point when one says it's enough, there is no point to add more as there is no time or an interest to listen to them all. How many do you have? How much time it look to put it together? How many of them do you really listen? 
esputnix
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fuzztone
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7 lineal feet. Most of it is ripped, which is FAR more convenient. But records and CDs sometimes sound better than files so I always have the option.
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baylinor
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Just passed 2,000. All catalogued as I acquire them. Keeping track of press order, country of origin, artist's discography order, condition of record if less than NM, their estimated value, quality of sound, EQR for exceptional quality recording or QR for a step below. Also notes about what side or part of album is best or specific remarks, i.e. LW for loudness war. All these things make picking up something to play so much easier. And I totally love doing the catalog. It's my hobby, I am fully retired. I have the time. Never could do it while I worked.
glupson
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A few hundred. Guessing 300-400. These days, I buy only what is not out there as a CD or download and also if there is some classical LP in near-mint condition at Goodwill just to check it. Ok, I bought one recently out of curiosity about a thread on Audiogon (Better Records, truth can be told, or something like that).

Those from Goodwill, I usually listen to once or twice and mostly with dinner. Those I buy because they do not exist in digital format, I play twice. The second time they start existing in digital format and they take on a new and more convenient life.
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joey3741
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About 600, I try not to listen to the same 40 or 50 but I have my favorites. Some have been played once and put away, others have been played so often that I have to have two copies. I have them spaced out in two side by side LP bins, from a company called LPBin, so they have a designated space that the wife doesn’t object to.
 I like to listen to 1 or 2 albums each morning with my coffee, then again later at night, after my ballgame has ended. I listen more during the winter when there’s no baseball, but I love playing records each and every day.
 I probably scroll through eBay & Disogs more than I should, but I’m not the type to want to put my wife & myself in the poorhouse so the ever expanding library grows slowly
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