Finds book at second hand shop > good book. Let’s get it. Get home to find the book already on my shelf.

Five or six paperbacks of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I’d pick up copies of the old Ballantine edition with the Blade Runner cover art by Drew Struzan (when you could still find them lying around for $2 or $3).

My ebooks folder is backed up, so you might say all of them

I have no multiple copies, I’ve stopped collecting physical books and almost exclusively use my e- reader. Storing books is so space consuming I just can’t justify it anymore. The only hardcopies I own at this point are gifts from other people that I held on to for that reason.

I’d have to look, but I’m pretty sure I have 3 sets of the Lord of the Rings?

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Used to be 4, I had a set of crappy paperbacks and wanted something nicer, so I bought the “Millennium Edition”:

Which LOOKS great, but the paper is EVEN WORSE than the crappy paperbacks.

For years I looked around for the red hardback edition which was out of print. One would pop up every now and then, but would be damaged or written in or something.

https://ebay.io/m/FgPQa9

Finally scored a clean copy of that, donated the crappy paperbacks to my little free library, kept the Millennium Edition because it is so very, very, pretty.

And then they came out with an illustrated edition with Tolkien’s own illustrations…

Fine.

Ulysses. One copy in English, three copies in my native language. It has been historically translated by three different people, and the versions vary wildly from one another (and in one case, even from the source). It’s been one of the Joys (haha, get it?) of re-reading it so many times.

• Watership Down (I have a hardback large print that is for display purposes only and then I have the copy that I have taken to the beach many times, it is one of my beach reads).
• The Harry Potter Books. I have a set that I have reread many times and then a box set that that has a picture the runs across all the spines.
• Many different sets of The Lord of The Rings with one additional copy of The Two Towers. I borrowed it from a friend in college and never returned it. I have kept it on the off chance I remember to give it back
• The Stand, I have the Abridged and Unabridged versions. (Not sure if that counts)

If you are including Graphic Novels

• I have the original V For Vendetta editions and a combined version that I got to let my kid read.
• Same with The Dark Knight Returns and Electra Assassin.

I have multiple copies of Cloud Atlas because I let it out not expecting to get it back but people returned it.

Also you should read Cloud Atlas.

I have two copies of Stephen King’s IT in hardcover. The first one is missing an entire signature around page 900 or so. I wrote to the publisher and they sent me a new one with all the pages.

I have three copies of I Kill Giants, because every time they release a new edition I buy it again.

It’s a really, really good book.

I think only two now:

• The Hobbit - one large, illustrated edition but also my original paperback version, which I am loath to let go
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - both my wife and I are very fond of our individual copies.

I do have two versions of Plato’s Symposium, but one is in a volume along with the Karma Sutra, and another is with a couple of other Socratic dialogues, so not really the same book as such.

I have a one book edition of The Lord of the Rings I bought over 20 years ago. Reading it can be uncomfortable for my hands, being a fairly hefty book and not the easiest to hold. To remedy this, I bought another edition that’s divided into three books and also includes The Hobbit, just so it’d be easier for me to read. But because I’m a sentimental dumbass, I still occasionally pick up the older edition I’ve read many times, because I have affection for it. I love the green cover with a nice painting of Gandalf. Other than that, I don’t think I have any book with multiple copies.

I have multiple copies of several books by Jack Vance, including Tales of the Dying Earth, Araminta Station, and a few of the Demon Princes and Planet of Adventure series. Old school SF is cool

House of Leaves

I have 2 editions of The Gunslinger because Stephen King revised some parts to fit better with the remaining novels. The Gunslinger is a very early work and it shows. I’ve read the first 3 books of the dark tower series at least twice. Last time through the series, after King “completed” it, I started with the original The Gunslinger and ended the series with the revised edition. The differences are relatively minor and, although I am generally a fan of his, I prefer the rough edges of the original. Reading the original first and the revised edition last felt more like a conclusion and coming full circle than the final book ever could have. Despite the differences, they still feel like the same book to me.