I'm finicky about my books. I strive to bend the binding as little as possible, especially paperbacks. I cringe when someone bends the read half back around the binding, curling the front cover, and I'm hesitant to loan books to anyone who does. I know this is lame because I'm that way even about cheapy paperbacks that I have no intention of reading again. I also check the binding frequently to make sure I'm not bending it.

My glasses go in haphazardly, and frequently stacked. TP roll is over the top.

I used to be wiggy about my CDs, but now they're spread out across so many places that I can't keep them in perfect rows any more.

If I get a set of something, crayons, for example, they have to go back in in the order they came from the factory, and I'll use the inside of the box lid to guide me in returning them to that order. I got mad at a kid in school ones for reorganizing my crayons into rainbow order. But since I'd lost the original order, they then had to stay that way.

If I ever fold over the corner of a page in a book (to mark where I am - in lieu of a bookmark), I will be drawn and quartered. Even if it isn't a book that Susan will be reading.

I always feel bad about folding over the corner - even if I have no intention of reading the book again. Then I remind myself of that fact and that it was just a few dollars for the paperback and it doesn't matter. But I always feel a tinge of guilt about it.

Then I'm lame. I own it.

A book, well treated, can be enjoyed for years by many different people.

I remember a line from Frazier years ago, when Niles is instructing someone on the house rules...

" And we close the art books when we're finished so we don't. crease. the spine."

Susan keeps old Witches Almanacs. WTF do you need a five year old almanac for?!?

You're weird




:D

And I love you for it!