i see a few here i'd like to paw through... Oh... which ones, cynlee? > do you index & label your own books like i see some of > these are or will we have to call out the library police! :] You're right. Thanks for reminding me about that. Those were discarded from a college library and about to be thrown away when a friend retrieved them and gave them to me. As to the question of label/index ... no, it would bore me to tears to do that. My method is to group the books by category and then within that either chronologically or by author. Some categories near the group pictured ... History or Philosophy of the Middle ages; History of Technology; Celtic History + Ornamentation (interlace); History of food/historic recipes; History of Theater (Chaucer to Shakespeare); History of Fashion; History of Music/Dance; History of Art (in addition to those in this picture); Herbs, Herbalism, Medical practice; 25 Screen plays; an entire bookcase of computer stuff; odds and ends like Grays Anatomy and the DSM IV. ... Oh yeah, and 2 shelves of SF and fantasy ... in that bookcase. Aren't you glad you asked? LOL MGD