A wholly different experience from Acres, it is the kind of place where you can sit down with a copy of, for example, "Legendary Yachts: The Great American Yachts from Crowningshield's Cleopatra's Barge to Today's Intrepid Bill Robinson" (1971, $8.50), and lose yourself for hours in nautical luxuries.  Lose yourself in a book, off the pier in Hermosa?  What exactly was being smoked on the pier beforehand, you ask?  But Los Angeles has lately come to the forefront in keeping the tradition of bibliomaniacal uselessness alive. 