How many books does Twilight own?

[DeletedAcc 64]

How many books do you think Twilight Sparkle has in her library? How many of them do you think she has read?

10 bits says someones gonna make a over 9000 joke

[MrL0LZ 866]

OVER 900-.......

Um...

Maybe 2000?

[Storm Spark 115]

OVER 9,000!!!!!!

Yes! First!

Edited June 26, 2012 by Storm Spark

[MrL0LZ 866]

OVER 9,000!!!!!!

Yes! First!

 

Eenope.

[Storm Spark 115]

Eenope.

 

You did not say 9,000 fully. You must say it fully or that is just being lazy.

[moneyshredderofdeath 414]

 

Certainly a lot. She's probably read nearly all of them too, knowing how diligent a reader she is, as opposed to me who goes at a snail's pace when I read a book on my own time

[LowfatEnvelope 335]

Now I want to amass screenshots of her home and count them...

 

Probably several hundred I'd think.

[Yellow Diamond 7,569]

(As an aside, this was moved over to the Show Discussion section as the topic deals with content directly related to MLP: FiM. Let's be a bit careful with how many random numbers we wish to spam the thread with, however...)

 

I presume Twilight has a sizable collection of hundreds if not thousands of books. Most of them probably deal with esoteric subjects within science, magic, and history, although clearly she has a few popular books (e.g., the slumber party guide in "Look Before You Sleep.").

[Dragonshy 2,305]

Too many to count.

[Krystal 1,468]

Well we could take the area of the amount of bookshelf space she has and then divide it by the average width of a book.

[SrFrog 927]

The world may never know...

[Monstermistress 8]

Cinarius Belpheron clearly keeps her supplied with all sorts of books.

 

Eventually she'll need to add a trillion more floors to her library.

[MVC NVMXD JVRXD 2,406]

Is there really anyway we can find out?

[Krystal 1,468]

This is kinda off topic but I wonder what she'd do if we gave her a Kindle...

[SrFrog 927]

This is kinda off topic but I wonder what she'd do if we gave her a Kindle...

 

There's an app for that, woops! wrong company.

[Wishful Thinking 102]

I was TOTALLY just about to say over 9000.

 

But, seriously? Lemme work it out.

 

 

In the above picture, which apparently shows one only one room of the tree, which is roughly round, approximately 45 books are shown. We can assume that it's one quarter of the whole library. We can assume she has approximately 180 books in the first-floor library alone.

 

Now, the library's approximately two thirds of the tree, so we can assume it's got 360 books, give or take a hundred.

 

Let's play a game. It's called Reasoning.

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=hMCW5wvg4lU

[pyro pie 68]

If I had to pick a number at random, I'd say that she probably has about 493 books in total. 80% of that would be books about science, magic, and practical stuff. as seen in season 2, she also has some books for recreational reading (the full daring doo series), so I'd say that about 15% of her books are there for recreation. then the last 5% is probably miscellaneous stuff.

[My little pwny 1,392]

 

I don't know but you better ask to check it out before you take a book.

[Abaddon 95]

For a rough estimate I would say between 300 and 400 books. From the pictures I have seen, most of the shelves hold about 10 books and with each bookshelf having 4-5 layers we can estimate they hold between 40-50 books. The problem is we never get a full view of her library, so there could be countless other books. What we do know is her current library is at least half the size of her former library in Canterlot. So with my horrible math skills, I'm guessing that her library has at least 350 books and at most infinity. Maybe one day we will get a chance to see Twilight's entire library.

 

As for how much Twlight has read, I wouldn't doubt it if she has read most of the books. When I was in college, a lot of my profs had hundreds of books in their offices and most of them had read them all- in fact a few of my profs could recall exact sections form most of the books, so I wouldn't doubt it that Twilight could do the same.

Edited June 26, 2012 by Abaddon

[Yellow Diamond 7,569]

Now I wonder how many books she had in Canterlot...

[Silverwisp the Bard 2,353]

Considering the vast magic potential in the books, we can safely assume her library has a strong connection to L-space, meaning access to every book ever potentially written

Seriously though: The tree is pretty large and should house several thousand (public property) books at least, since it was built as a library first.

Twilight herself has spend some 15+ years doing hardly anything but study and read so I'd put her personal library at about 300-500 books (magical essentials and fiction). I'd imagine she has a pretty busy account at the Canterlot library though.

[NavelColt 22,880]

 

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My face when originally this topic.

 

Honestly, all obvious 9000 jokes aside, I'd say it's definitely 600 or less. Canterlot? Yeah, 1,000 would be far, far more likely. But her Ponyville library seems fairly modest. The main room, as has been posted, has a lot of thick books, and some spaces lacking between some of them. Even if those spaces were filled though, I wouldn't personally go over 600. It's not that big of library in retrospect, and though it has several rooms for the books, thinking about it, it just doesn't get as high as the thousands for me.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

This is kinda off topic but I wonder what she'd do if we gave her a Kindle...

 

I was TOTALLY just about to say over 9000.

 

But, seriously? Lemme work it out.

 

 

In the above picture, which apparently shows one only one room of the tree, which is roughly round, approximately 45 books are shown. We can assume that it's one quarter of the whole library. We can assume she has approximately 180 books in the first-floor library alone.

 

Now, the library's approximately two thirds of the tree, so we can assume it's got 360 books, give or take a hundred.

 

 

Much like the TARDIS, the library interior has little relationship to the external tree. In the second season opener, think of how far and how fast Twilight was running when trying to get back her book. Now compare that to the external appearance of the tree. Keep in mind this mad game of keep-a-way took place in only one room. The library is as big as it needs to be, tree notwithstanding. We haven't even touched on the basement laboratory!

[Shadow Chaser 633]

I'm going to blow some minds with this one.

 

Twilight owns no books at all. She lives in a library. And in Canterlot, she was a student of Celestia who, I would think, would provide the books for her to study from.

 

Commence with the head 'splosions.

[WiiBowDash 1]

Around 1000 is my guess