Has my iphoto got too full?

Hi everyone. Mac newbie here!
Trying to buy iphoto book of 80 pages (111mb). 2 things happen when I try. Sending book fails repeatedly just before completion. Very noisy fan (on new 'refurbished' macbook) when iphoto is open.
My Iphoto has 18,500 files in it. (mainly photos) Should I remove the older files to permanent alternative storage? And if so how do I do it? I am not very techie.

Hi Thanks for your speedy response! Relieved to know I can still take a few more pics before I have to worry about removing the old ones, thanks for that.
In About my Mac it says in Hardware the memory is 2 GB. Serial ATA is 232GB. I have about 100GB spare.
Checked the Activity Monitor and iphoto CPU was really high compared to other running programs such as Mail so I shut the whole thing down and tried again to send the book with a much lower CPU. It got as far as a window saying 'transferred 111mb of 111mb' but stuck there for several minutes before a window saying something like 'error transferring files, check your connection and retry'. Fan behaving normally so I guess that was an improvement but still cant send the book.
We are on a satellite for broadband as we are too far from a phone exchange to get regular broadband, but usually if the signal drops you get a message saying it has dropped.
Best, Chimme

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