I did an excel spreadsheet and I had 952 quilt books and leaflets. Most were obtained at garage sales, for free, at library sales, at a discount bookstore, etc. There are very few that I paid retail for at a bricks and mortar store.
The patterns fill three large plastic totes. One is for Cinci Edgerton patterns, one is foundation patterns, and one is
for the others.
It is an obsession. Lets not talk about the two lateral file drawers with clipped patterns or the huge file online of saved patterns.