Personal Libraries

Slow road back from death. We'll get back on pace eventually. (My current thought right now btw is just to have posts for every day no matter when they end up appearing.)

But for today:

I'm currently obsessed with the word library meaning a particular collection of books--over against the physical location. In a large part I feel this way because I love my own personal library. But you know whose elses I might like? Famous peoples.

You could totally sell collections of books that were the total collection of a particular person. Famous authors, politicians, inventors. Really whoever. People could do research and try to put together all the books a person had read. If just all the books they had in a collection when they croaked. That would totally sell tho.

Imagine you could have friends into your library room and say 'these are all the books Ben Franklin ever read.' Or 'this room represents the accumulated literary knowledge of Dostoevsky'.

And people could seriously try to read all those books. Like an insane project to know what their favourite thinkers knew. Seems like fun to me, but I guess I'm a book nerd.