A couple of weeks ago, having lost complete track of everything in my book collection, and fed up with ordering books I'd already got, I siezed on a plan. Thinks I, I'll compile a spreadsheet list of all my books on my computer. Nothing fancy. Just the title, author, publisher and year of publication. This afternoon I passed the 2,000 mark, which is a bit like saying that you're on a walk from John O' Groats to Lands End, and you've got as far as Inverness. What, I hear you ask, was the 2,000th volume in this extraordinarily epochal odyssey? Believe it or not, it was The Image of Ivan The Terrible In Russian Folklore, by Maureen Perrie. That'll teach you to go asking silly questions.
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