Sept 14, 2010: Book Hoarders

There's a book hoarding couple, in St. Louis Park, MN.
After lining all the walls with bookshelves, they were still tripping over cardboard boxes.
So of course the logical solution was to buy the house next door. for the books... of course. :rolleyes:

Well nobody wants to trundle outside in their snuggie & slippers to grab a book, especially in MN winters.
So logic rears it's expensive head once more, and they connect the two houses, as well as remodel the new place next door.
OK, formerly next door.



I believe the first picture is the front of the two houses, and the second is the rear.
Oh, the guy said St Louis Park didn't have a rule against it, because nobody had ever wanted to do it before. :haha:

Pictures of the interior at the link.

It's good to be king.

Even in MN.

Nicely done.

$ 139.00

:banghead:

WANT!! Badly!

I'd LOVE to do that! I'm going to suggest it to my husband.

Granted, we live in a townhouse, so all's we really have to do is cut a door in the wall.

I need space for my books. Me want.

pretty functional "hoarders" if they can afford to buy and build that.

Someone did that just round the corner from me here. I'll try and take a pic sometime. Not sure what they're hoarding, though, although I have my suspicions.... :eek:

fjhs3;682294 wrote:

$ 139.00

:banghead:

But what they won't ever consider is buying a Kindle.

"This," says Sue, "is a strictly text-bound household."

"This," says Sue, "is a strictly text-bound household."

And a fire trap.

Gravdigr;682377 wrote:

And a fire trap.

Gosh. Better get rid of the contents of the filing cabinet then and the house looks fairly flammable too....replace, quickly and there's trees out the front with spindly branches....

Most of the house would catch before books in wall bookcases. Plus not having boxes to trip over makes it safer.

Spindly branches?! [SIZE="1"]gasp[/SIZE]:bolt:

Think of the silverfish, man! They'll be huge! HUGE I tell ya!!

They'll be crushed in an earthquake! Think of it - being killed by Webster the Unabridged version.

It's good to see they still have some room to expand.

SPUCK;682556 wrote:

They'll be crushed in an earthquake! Think of it - being killed by Webster the Unabridged version.

Well they won't be killed by the Oxford English 3rd Edition - the current plan is that it will be available only digitally.

But even the digital versions don't have an entry for the word "gullible" because it's not in the printed versions.

From the looks of it they have a well managed collection

Gravdigr;682554 wrote:

Think of the silverfish, man! They'll be huge! HUGE I tell ya!!

Dinner!

Clone thread:
Bored Hookers

Clodfobble;682570 wrote:

It's good to see they still have some room to expand.

You can never have too many books.

If you run out of room, books are a good building material to make more room... for more books. :D

Notice the titles... we read those in school back in the 50's
I wonder if any students are reading them now.

I'm sure they're still reading Silent Spring, along with Al Gore's book.

This is like an eye test. The only titles I can see clearly are Catch 22, Proverbs, Children's Stories. Looking again, I can see Fahrenheit 451. Silent Spring wasn't published til the 60's if I remember my dates correctly.

It's a parking garage across the street from a library in the US, but I won't spoil the mysteries of titles or city
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Lamplighter;683109 wrote:

Google is your friend

"Friend, good."

Lamplighter;682956 wrote:

Notice the titles... we read those in school back in the 50's
I wonder if any students are reading them now.

Lil' Pete read Fahrenheit 451 in English class last year. I can't make out any more titles than casi, but they're reading Melville right now... not a public school though.

casimendocina;683103 wrote:

Proverbs

You may need glasses. That looks like "O Pioneers!" to me.

Spexxvet;683203 wrote:

You may need glasses. That looks like "O Pioneers!" to me.

Got new glasses, lost them after a week so will have to go without for another year-no idea what happened to the previous pair. Ce la vie and you're right. On closer inspection, it is O Pioneers. What was I thinking?????