Obsessive about books

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Michelle Apostolides" 
<michelleapostolides at l...> wrote:
> I am in the process of packing up all my books because I'm hoping to
> move soon. I'm making up a list - typing it up in Word - of what 
books
> are in which box. and I refuse to pack the HP ones up until I really
> have to.
> 
> Is that a mild or severe case of obsessiveness ?
> 
> Michelle

No.  Having been in the process myself recently of sorting out my own 
books, and having to put two layers on most bookshelves, I am 
debating whether to catalogue them myself because I need to know 
where to find them.  It is also useful to know what you've got in 
which box, because, you may find, as I have done, that things go 
missing and you have to replace them.  In the last week I found that 
all my LM Montgomery, Lucy M Boston, Susan Cooper books and a host of 
children and adult classics have disappeared off the face of the 
earth, and I am in the process of replacing them, which isn't fun, 
particularly when you are attached to some of the older editions.  
So, cataloguing in advance could save you a lot of problems!

Catherine, who knows that this sounds as though she is verging on 
obsessiveness - but I don't care!