Why are there urinals in the rooms of the hotel suites? ahahahahhah "grift shop"! the grift selections are pretty cool if you're looking for something to give that special lib for xmas.
Why do I get the feeling that when the real one is planned, the #1 instruction will be "make it bigger than Obama's"?
As repositories of primary-source documents, they're incredibly valuable to history. As pieces of hagiography, I can live without 'em, but that aspect probably makes it easier to put together the money to build 'em, so ...
People need to be able to access those documents for research, that's why I suggested the Library of Congress.
Once upon a time, for reasons too tedious to explain, I was at a cast party at someone's McMansion, and she was giving her guests the two-dollar tour. The usual first-floor layout, including maid's quarters off the state-of-the-art kitchen, a full bath and a "powder room." I think there were five bedrooms upstairs, each with its own private bath. Finished basement with a wet bar and a "game room" for the kiddies, which included a regulation pool table, some vintage pinball machines, and a dance floor. As she led us back upstairs from the basement, she realized there was one room she hadn't shown us. Threw open the door and announced "And this is the library!" Wall-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves - which were completely empty except for a couple of telephone directories. I imagine Trump's "library" will consist mainly of a gift shop selling MAGA hats and copies of The Art of the Deal.
"Friend of a friend" story, take it as seriously (or not) as you like ... A friend of a friend used to work in a bookstore, and one of her favorite stories was about the time a woman came in looking for books that were red. Now, librarians and bookstore workers get this all the time -- somebody remembers a book they read once, and they can't come up with the name, but they can remember what it looked like. Memory is weird that way. So she assumed this was another one of those cases and started asking more questions ... Nope, turns out the woman's interior decorator had told her to get books with red spines for her bookshelf. Didn't care what the books were; they just had to match the color scheme.
That does not surprise me in the slightest. It's like those people who buy "books by the yard" - encyclopedias they'll never open, etc. There's even a site called www.booksbythefoot.com While searching for that, I found this: The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump - by Rob Sears (Hardcover)
You know that there's going to be another ghosted book called, "How I Made America Great Again" or some shit.
Some of those prices aren't bad ... There was a used bookstore near where I grew up that would sell you a paper grocery bag filled with paperbacks for something like $5. I think you knew what genre the books would be, but that was it. It was pretty fun.
I used to be an inspector for the assessors office in one of the wealthier townships in the county. One of the houses I inspected in one of the gated communities - and I mean gated, not like the one in St Louis where protesters walked through - the library was larger than my entire apartment. I’d totally forgotten why I was there and became consumed with all the books. I don’t know if they were books by the foot (or whatever) but I do remember being able to distinguish all the different genres in different sections and wondered who had the time to organize all the books. James, apparently has a similar fascination. Took him to IKEA to look for new living room furniture and all he wanted to do was look at the books. He was really fascinated that they were all in the Swedish language.
