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r/BookCollecting: A community for the serious book collector. For collectors and lovers of books new & old. A community for the discussion around finding, collecting and storing books. No sales allowed. Be nice to each other and stay on topic. Founded 2011 · 108.6K members

106.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 11.4K upvotes, which works out to 107 per 1,000 members.

107peak upvotes per 1,000 members
106.9Kmembers
11.4Kbest post
437most comments
102posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

65% 29%
Gallery 65% Image 29% Link 3% Video 2% Text 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

📦 New Acquisitions 23 💭 Question 19 📕 Book Showcase 18 💬 General 12 📜 Old Books 8 💩 Shitpost 2 📚 Book Collection 2 🏆 First Edition 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I had a book that the Library of Congress’s Rare Book department was looking for!

↑ 11.4K 💬 122 image 2025

I almost fainted. Is this the real thing?

↑ 8.3K 💬 171 gallery 2026

My grandpa had this sitting in his basement

↑ 5.1K 💬 83 image 2025

My friend pulled this from the bottom of his bookshelf after I told him I was looking for it. He had no idea that it has value. Just one of the old d…

↑ 4.9K 💬 91 image 2024

My dad was an avid book collector. These are some of his books I inherited after he passed away

↑ 4.6K 💬 75 gallery 2025

Trying to identify the photographer of this 1960s book cover — it’s the only photo I have of my late mother

↑ 3.7K 💬 74 image 2025

Thrift store find today. I'm in shock.

↑ 3.2K 💬 67 gallery 2025

1 pound find at Charity Shop

↑ 3.1K 💬 222 gallery 2025

Visited a time capsule in New York

↑ 2.8K 💬 126 gallery 2026

You guys… grabbed one of my favorite books from the neighborhood Little Free Library and canNOT believe my luck

↑ 2.7K 💬 69 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/BookCollecting, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/BookCollecting?
r/BookCollecting ("r/BookCollecting: A community for the serious book collector") describes itself this way: For collectors and lovers of books new & old. A community for the discussion around finding, collecting and storing books. No sales allowed. Be nice to each other and stay on topic. It was founded in 2011 and has 108.6K members.
How many members does r/BookCollecting have?
r/BookCollecting has about 106.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.4K upvotes, which is 107 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BookCollecting?
"I had a book that the Library of Congress’s Rare Book department was looking for!" reached 11.4K upvotes and 122 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BookCollecting.
What subreddits are similar to r/BookCollecting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/BookCollecting?
Of the posts we hold, 65% are gallery posts and 29% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BookCollecting?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 11:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Monday at 00:00 UTC (996 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/BookCollecting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BookCollecting has 2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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