Build Your Dream Library with Trump’s Imaginary $5,000 – A Fantasy Exercise

Maybe your daily life is completely fine. The rent is paid, the kitchen is stocked, and the gas tank is full. But… what do you dream about when you play the “What if I suddenly hit the lottery?” game?

For bookworms, that dream is usually a massive, sprawling library filled to the brim with unread books.

Recently, that guy in the white house promised everyone a $5,000 “dividend” check. He forgot to mention that we are all playing a fun pretend game with fantasy money, just like the Doge and Tariff payouts he previously promised us. So let’s pretend that $5,000 bribe just arrived.

Could you use it to buy enough books to build your dream library? I think you could. But if you want to make this fantasy money go as far as possible, you have to be smart about how you spend it.

First, let’s make your dream library a digital one. That saves shelf space and fits in any home, whether you live in a tiny house or a palatial mansion. Next, let’s see how far $5,000 will actually stretch, depending on what you buy:

• New Releases & Traditional Bestsellers ($12.99 avg): This gets you 385 books. A respectable shelf, but I bet we can do better.
• Standard Mainstream Fiction ($4.99 avg): Now you’re up to 1,002 books. Getting closer.
• Independent (Indie) Authors ($2.99 avg): This gets you a whopping 1,672 books.

By skipping the corporate mainstream offerings and zeroing in on indie authors, you can quadruple the size of your library. 1,672 books will keep even the fastest speed-reader busy for a long time.

But best of all? You’re reading unique, creative stories written outside of the constraints of the traditional corporate publishing mindset.

So while we all sit around waiting for our bribe handout, I think you can afford to treat yourself to just one indie authored book today. If you pick one from my Ko-Fi shop, you’ll be buying it directly from me, there’s no middleman like Amazon taking their cut. Enjoy your book and thank you so much for your support!