Leenia, Fear not. The Woodson household is not about to collapse. All my books are stacked in bookcases which are firmly attached to the walls. Stacking them in the middle of the room could well apply undue torsion to the load bearing timbers,or stone floor, which is why your architect friend was concerned. But that won't happen if the bookcases are situated where they can only apply direct vertical force. Unless there's dry rot down there which I don't know about of course. Stilly River Sage. "OCD - Obsessive Compulsive disorder". It's not, unless an insatiable thirst for reading and knowledge and trying to be dead clever can count as such. It's just that, no matter how hard I try, I never can keep the books in their appropriate places on the shelves. The scenario goes like this. I find an affordable copy of the Folklore of Upper Transylvania on the Internet. Thinks I, "I'm sure I've got a copy already." I check along the shelf in the place where it should be and can't see one. I order it and go to place it on the shelf and find I'e positioned it next to the one I'd bought 20 years earlier. Now, with my trusty spreadsheet, all I have to do is search on appropriate word and up it will come, or not, as the case may be. BTW., I've done the same thing with my record collection and that is every bit as handy.
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