{"id":173731,"date":"2026-02-21T02:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173731\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:07:06","slug":"the-lit-ride-wilsons-mobile-book-emporium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173731\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lit Ride: Wilson&#8217;s Mobile Book Emporium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A Daihatsu mini truck, primarily used for off-road tasks and ranching, now serves a different purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Brian Wilson, a U.S. Army Veteran, transformed his 2020 Hijet truck into Wilson&#8217;s Mobile Book Emporium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I mean, look at it. The whole truck is amazing,&#8221; One customer shared. &#8220;As soon as I parked, I was like, I got to check this out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Wilson told us the truck can carry up to 500 books, and he pops up at different coffee shops around Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;No one expected to go out today to buy a book when they come to the book truck,&#8221; Wilson said. &#8220;It&#8217;s always fun because someone found something they weren&#8217;t expecting to find that day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">With limited space, Wilson discusses with us how he selects the books he carries and where his love of books began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">To know where Wilson&#8217;s truck will be next visit his <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonsmobilebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> or follow the business on <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wilsonsmobilebooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A Daihatsu mini truck, primarily used for off-road tasks and ranching, now serves a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70291,70286,3330,70290,1988,56,58,57,34079,70289,70288,3288,70287],"class_list":["post-173731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-70291","tag-brian-wilson","tag-coffee","tag-daihatsu-hijet","tag-heights","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-japanese","tag-mini-truck","tag-on-the-road","tag-reading","tag-wilsons-mobile-book-emporium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}