Number of bibles you own

[jack]

Poll #4882 Bibles

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

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How many bibles do you own

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Mean: 3.35 Median: 2 Std. Dev 3.04

0		2 (7.7%)
1		6 (23.1%)
2		7 (26.9%)
3		2 (7.7%)
4		3 (11.5%)
5		1 (3.8%)
6		1 (3.8%)
7		1 (3.8%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
10		2 (7.7%)
11		1 (3.8%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)

Comments

[simont]

Do electronic copies count?

[jack]

If it's on your computer. I don't think going to bible.com counts :)

[simont]

OK. In that case I voted 2, because I have two electronic copies (yes, on my own computer) of different translations, but no paper copy at all.

(For electronic copies it seemed sensible to count usefully distinct copies rather than any old copies, so the copies of those two on my four backup disks don't count, and I didn't even bother trying to remember whether I have bible-kjv installed on more than one Debian box. It feels slightly odd that for paper copies one would obviously have had to count duplicates of the same translation, but there we go.)

[jack]

Thank you. Yes, I think that's obviously the sensible way to count. And I agree it's interesting that it's different between real and electronic, but it's obviously the only way to do it. (If you'd deliberately acquired two separate kjv versions for some reason, I might consider them different, but even then probably not.) And thank you for choosing a sensible approach rather than bothering me to do it :)

[redaloud.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask the same question. Simon's response sounds sensible.