The Chain of Discs That You Go through When Putting Them Back in Their Correct Boxes

Dear god, you do this? Gaahh! How can you? It's practically a sin! Do you do this to other people's collections as well? People do that to me, and I wish to kill them. And then! When I want to borrow CDs from them, ohhhh crikey. Impossible.

I keep all of mine in perfect order, grouped by genre, alphabetised by artist, within artist chronological. Oh, sweet organisation.

Yup. 'Fraid I do! I used to keep them nice 'n' neat, but then I moved into a room without shelves. Now I have a big (seriously, it's preeeetty big) collection of stacks up against my south wall. I should put shelves up, but I didn't think I'd be staying here that long!!

I completely admire you for being so tidy, but I don't envy you, in fact I quite like it sometimes! I also have a sneaking suspicion that you may be in the minority! Or it may just be the messy people I know!

Oh boy, this is definitely me.  Even with borrowed CDs. It becomes a whole project just to give them back.

sighs

makes note to never lend anything to the octopus or bailey

i do this with cds and dvds, its an endless chain that annoys all of my friends but its not that complicated

CDs, DVDs, Video Game Discs, yeah I've gat a pretty big mess…

I'm with NM on this. More so, in fact; I'd want to kill them slowly.

PO, I was going to offer to lend you my Wagner collection.

I just changed my mind!

Only pretty good? No, dear sir, the only acceptable answer is "excellent".

Yep. I don't even like getting a paperback book back with a crease in the cover.

A person once tried to return a book to me which her sister had dropped in the bath tub.

I did not take it, for an uncountable amount of reasons. She has never touched or even breathed upon a book of mine since.

Amusing!

I know what people are like, though, so if I care about something that much, I won't even consider lending it - I've bought another copy of some things to give to people, just to avoid doing so! 

Dear dear dear, in that aspect, we are similar.

PO, you have a knack of picking stuff which sets off conversations.

A book dropped in the bath. Tut. That's a crime only just short of burning it!

NM, do you perchance read paperbacks trying actively not to crease the spine? 

I would of also bought a new book for the bathtub incident. But seriously Finrod if someone puts a crease in the spine of a paperback you wont accept it back, thats a little itense.

I also must add that I do return these things in their correct boxes and in immaculate condition within the agreed upon borrowing timeframe. You'd never even know that your CD had been temporarily housed in a series of unrelated containers. Although maybe that's just as scary?

As long as we're sharing horror stories, though: I once had a roommate who grabbed one of my books while I was away and used it to prop a window open for a span of several days.  Inevitably, it rained, and the book was more or less destroyed. When confronted,  the offending party suggested, unapologetically,  that they "didn't think it was important" because "it was a textbook". In fact, it was not a textbook, but a hardcover copy of Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco, although to be fair, I'd have been pissed in either case, because that's just the kind of unreasonable person I am.

Lastly: I wouldn't borrow a paperback novel that didn't have a properly creased spine at the time of borrowing. Obviously, uncreased spines would have to mean a lot to the owner of such a book. Unless it was entrapment. No good either way.

Finrod, indeed, I do take the utmost amount of care when reading a new book. I would like to describe my favorite material for the cover and binding, but I think my description would be embarrassingly poor.

But I do love aged books. There's such a fine line... oh, but nevermind. When other people crease, I do not mind so much, as long as they enjoyed the book. There was something written in a Stephen Fry book that I'd like to quote, but I'm afraid I might have done so before. 

Dear me, Bailey, that was the roommate from Hell...

NM, I agree about aged books. I used to roam Northern England in pursuit of them (there was a bookshop in Carnforth - the town where Brief Encounter was filmed - which was like the Library of Alexandria for me), but - as has happened to the market in second-hand sheet music - the number of quality ones available has become vanishingly small of late. 

Few things hurt more than walking into a used book store and finding only books made within the past 5 years.

Heaven.

At last – a reason for me to visit NYC!

Eighteen miles... sounds more fun than the London museums.