Bagging and sorting and cataloguing will make you a very happy person. In a way it's bringing the universe into order. We need order!

You begin to understand one of the rewards and frustrations of being a librarian.

It is THE PUBLIC who reap the rewards
due to the existence of librarians.

My weekly trip to the LCS near my work really makes me happy. Helps cut the work week in half and relaxes me.

I also enjoy sorting through my books and deciding what to keep and what to give away/donate...lots of fun.

And I still say that pound for pound comics are the best entertainment medium out there!

I wish that I had a huge extra room full of tables to use for sorting my books. I grew up in a huge house full of empty rooms and had unlimited space to spread my shit out (after the six older kids moved out, I had the house to myself).

Sometimes I wish we had more space to do that at work....

It's a wonderful way to take your mind off of the pressures of life and escape for a bit. Looking at good comic art gives me a charge like nothing else.

I also get a kick out of vintage paperback covers, preferably the lurid American ones (not boring Penguins), and album covers, even shrunk to CD booklet size.

On the other hand, obsessive CD collecting leads to nothing but poverty, misery and heartache.

Old cover art can be fascinating, all right. There are so many quality illustrations, and interesting examples of past graphic design. One of several reasons why I hope that books never go totally digital is the concern that we might lose a sense of books as artifacts. If books become nothing more than digital files their illustrations may become lost among the hundreds of images that blip across our screens every day.

Many of the great cover artists and book illustrators have had book collections of their work, Kintsler, Frazetta et al.

So, obsessive CD and comic book collecting must lead to double poverty, misery, and heartache.

Speaking of great illustrators, there's an exhibit of classic children's book illustration running in North Little Rock right now. I really hope I can get to see that some time in the next couple of weeks!

You should go, Daphne, if it's not too far away.

I may have the opportunity to visit colleagues in the area to talk shop soon, so I could go see it then.

I'm currently going through my CDs. Some are bound for the CD binder and some will try to be sold.