Thomas Collectors Edition Pay Phone' title='Thomas Collectors Edition Pay Phone' />Distinguished Award Winning Global Publisher in 4. By David Hepworth. An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince. Famous Book Hoarders Literary Hub. I have a hard time getting rid of books, and if youre reading this space, you probably do too. As Summer Brennan put it, what kind of degenerate only wants to own 3. Not anyone I know. But apparently, you only have to own one thousand books to qualify as a book hoarder. Which seems a bit low, to be honestunless were talking about one thousand books in a New York City one bedroom, in which case, sure. In general, Im interested in other peoples book collections. How many books, which ones, how are they kept, where are they keptContact TV Guide Customer Service. Find TV Guide Customer Support, Phone Number, Email Address, Customer Care Returns Fax, 800 Number, Chat and TV Guide FAQ. Speak. Handson review original photos of the Omega Seamaster Diver 300M Commanders Watch Limited Edition with price, specs, expert analysis. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Niko Bellic Serbian, Niko Beli is the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto IV and a. So, one rainy afternoon, I started poking around the book collections of famous people, to see which ones happened to be technical or actual book hoarders. Some of the results surprised methough I admit I already knew about Karl Lagerfeld. N. B. that of course this list is in no way scientific or exhaustiveno doubt there are scores of famous people out there with large libraries disposable income and lots of space tend to make that possible, but either the actual numbers have never been documented, or I simply couldnt or didnt dig them up. Notables with high figures who didnt make the top ten include Marilyn Monroe 4. George Washington 1,2. Charles Darwin 1,4. Oprah 1,5. 00 books, Frederick Douglass 2,0. David Markson 2,5. If you have any further intel on this score, please add on to the list in the comments as you see fit. Article continues after advertisement. Karl Lagerfeld 3. Karl Lagerfeld has more books than pretty much anybody. During a master class at the 2. International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Lagerfeld explained Today, I only collect books there is no room left for something else. If you go to my house, Ill have you walk around the books. I ended up with a library of 3. Its a lot for an individual. No kidding. His collection includes books in French, English, and German, and in order to create more space in his home for all the volumes, he stacks his books sidewaysthat is, horizontally instead of vertically. Oh, and theres a catwalk to reach the upper levels. This is Lagerfeld, after all. George Lucas 2. 7,0. In 1. 97. 8, George Lucas established the Lucasfilm Research Libraryfirst collecting volumes at his Los Angeles office, and eventually moving the library to the main house at Skywalker Ranch. In addition to the more than 2. Lucass library is not open to the public, but his employeesas well as special guests like Cecil B. De. Mille, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, Steve Martin, Edith Head, and Charlton Hestonare allowed to check things out. Jay Walker 2. 0,0. So, Jay Walker is only a famous person if youre a nerd, I guess. Hes an entrepreneur who founded Priceline. Ridgefield, Connecticut home that he calls the Library of the History of Human Imaginationwhich is deeply pretentious, I know, but just look at it. It has three levels, a glass bridge, floating platforms, and yes, lots and lots of books. Fluke 79 Series Ii Specifications. Michael Jackson 1. The King of Pop was also the King of Books. During Michael Jacksons life, he was a regular customer at his local bookstores in Los Angeles, including Book Soup and Skylight. He loved the poetry section, Dave Dutton of Duttons Books in Brentwood told the L. A. Times. Ralph Waldo Emerson was his favorite. Jacksons attorney Bob Sanger told L. A. Weekly that the pop star had 1. Neverland Ranch, and there were places that he liked to sit, and you could see the books with his bookmarks in it, with notes and everything in it where he liked to sit and read. And I can tell you from talking to him that he had a veryespecially for someone who was self taught, as it were, and had his own reading listhe was very well read. Ernest Hemingway 9,0. According to Debra A. Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzos Hemingway in Context, the writer carried a library with him wherever he went, and was continually acquiring new books, as many as 1. By the time of his death, his Finca Viga library had some 9,0. Key West he moved with about 8. Not surprising, perhaps, but still impressive. William Randolph Hearst 7,0. Hearst had two libraries in his castleKen Dream Housethe main library, which held 4,0. Gothic study, which held 3,0. Thomas Jefferson 6,4. I cannot live without books, Thomas Jefferson famously said. According to the Library of Congress, when the British torched the capital in 1. Jefferson had built the biggest personal library in the United Stateswhich he then sold to Congress for 2. After that, he promptly began acquiring books again and sold that new collection to pay his debts in 1. Nigella Lawson 6,0. Food writer, television personality and domestic  goddess Nigella Lawson is pictured above in front of the floor to ceiling bookshelves filled with thousands of cookbooks in her house in Belgravia, London. Its not just cookbooks that populate her reading lists, thoughshe also has a literary bent. Her favorite book is David Copperfield. Harry Houdini 5,0. Insert joke about not escaping from piles of books here. When Houdini died, he left his private collectionbook on magic, theater, and spiritualismto the Library of Congress. Several sources claim that at that time he probably had the largest collection of books on magic in the world. You can browse almost 4,0. Hannah Arendt 4,0. The Hannah Arendt collection at Bard College is made up of some 4,0. New York City apartment she lived in until she died in 1. I hope it was bigger than a one bedroom. For some reason, 4,0. Virginia Woolf and Katherine Anne Porter.