Eight Books
Eight Volumes
noun
When you have eight books you have eight books. This is an example of how to count books, so if you have eight of them this is what you'd say.
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well. The はち part gets shortened as it often does when put into situations like this, making it はっ. The 冊 is all normal, and to the "book(s)." Har!
学生は八人だから、教科書は八冊必要です。
Because there are eight students, we will need eight textbooks.
お金がなくていすが買えないので、本を八冊つみ上げていすの代わりにしています。
I have no money and I can't buy a chair, so I use eight books as a chair instead.
小説をたった八冊出版したからって、自分の事を小説家だなんて呼びませんよ。五十冊出版すれば、もしかするとそう呼ぶかもしれないけどね。
I won’t call myself a fiction writer after only publishing eight books. If I publish fifty books, then I’ll call myself that.