Irony is the Shackles of Youth

miome and I have a lot of books. I mean, a lot of books. I'm currently in the middle of doing an inventory of the books we have in the apartment for insurance purposes. I've done two 1/2 bookcases and already we have 143 books. I haven't done half the books in my room, none in miome's room (which includes a floor to ceiling bookcase and boxes under her bed), and we still have about a bookcase of books and a bookcase of manga left (I'm counting manga as books since they have a ISBN) in the living room.

So here's a contest: how many books do we actually have? Miome guesses 500. I'm guessing 750. I'll takes guesses from people and when I'm done with the inventory, the closest guess gets a story of their choice.

Anyone want to take a bet?