Updated: 11:36 p.m.

Copies of the explosive new book about the President Donald Trump's administration didn't even make it to Portland bookstores' shelves on Friday morning.

At Powell's on Burnside, two stacks equalling a total of 40 copies of "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff, one at either entrance, were snapped up by customers who waited up to two hours outside of the store before it opened at 9 a.m.

By 9:05 a.m., the books were gone.

Paul Packard of Portland stood with a companion about 10 people back in the line down Burnside a few minutes before the store opened. He'd gotten there an hour early, he said, but waited in his car for around 50 minutes due to the pouring rain.

He said he and his companion were worried that Trump's efforts to stop publication of the book might succeed. On Thursday, the president threatened the publisher of the book with legal action, trying to force them to stop the release of the book.

The book was originally scheduled to hit shelves on Tuesday, Jan. 9 but on Thursday, after Trump's response and intense interest in the book, the publisher moved the date up to Friday.

"We want to get ours in hand," Packard said. "And I wasn't doing anything else this morning."

Powell's Marketing Manager Renee Peters said over email Friday morning that the supply of books at Powell's Cedar Hills location also appeared to be gone. The store expects to have some copies available tomorrow.

Our next shipment of Fire and Fury came in earlier than expected! As a result, more copies will be available in stores this afternoon rather than Saturday morning. We expect these to sell out quickly as well. Another small shipment will be arriving early next week. https://t.co/czWVVtw7JA — Powell's Books (@Powells) January 5, 2018

Elsewhere, copies of the book were all reserved before stores even opened.

An employee of Annie Bloom's Books who identified himself only as "Andy," said all of the store's copies of "Fire and Fury" were spoken for, though the store expects to get "a ton more" on Monday.

Sally McPherson, co-owner of Broadway Books, said all their copies were also reserved.

"We have some coming in Tuesday and then we have some more coming next week," she said over the phone Friday. But even the books still on their way are going quickly.

"If somebody wants one," McPherson added, "they should come in and reserve one or call."

If you want to check the book out from the library, expect a wait. Washington County Cooperative Library Services posted on Facebook Friday that the print edition of "Fire and Fury" has 335 holds already.

There are already 335 holds (!) on the print edition of Fire & Fury by Michael Wolff, but you can still get in pretty... Posted by Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS) on Friday, January 5, 2018

The Multnomah County Library said Friday they have 656 holds on their print edition of the book and 34 holds on the audio CD.

"We only currently have 6 copies of this," Shawn Cunningham, spokesperson for Multnomah County Library, said over the phone. But, due to high demand, he added, "we have 150 more copies on order."

For people who didn't get a copy and can't wait to read the book that has dominated the national conversation for three days, "Fire and Fury" is also available on Kindle.

-- Lizzy Acker

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