Books as Props

[dewline]

For politicians as much as movie and TV soundstages, apparently.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/26/books-by-the-foot-washington-dc-covid-books-440347

https://www.wonderbk.com/bookseller/theyre-gonna-put-you-in-the-movies/

And yes, I've seen news reports of libraries on cruise ships. I have a Haynes Manual detailing the history of the Queen Mary II, and that vessel does have a reading library aboard her. I suppose Books By the Yard's management and staff have already heard of such themselves more directly.

Comments

[dewline]

I think at least one more person on my friendlist here will empathise with your complaints on a basis of first-hand experience!

[thewayne]

Even when I had bookshelves for my home library I learned to keep a little slack space! :-)

[dewline]

I've never learned that. Hence my current efforts to cull via Facebook Marketplace.

[thewayne]

I learned it the hard way from being such a bibliophile in years past.  Now probably 95%+ of my book purchases are ebooks and magazines are a similar number.  And having purged such a huge number of physical books, my purchases are much more manageable.  I get one print subscription, the cooking magazine Milk Street, and I think only one emagazine, The Atlantic.  We get a couple of electronic newspaper subscriptions, a local, NYT, and I think WaPo.  We would like to pay for Slate, but we consider their price to be kind of ridiculous.