- Tolkien books are remarkably sneaky. If you check all your existing book shelves and stacks, looking for all Tolkien books so you can put them all together on the new shelves, you'll miss some, and forget they ever existed. You will eventually find them two hours later, prompting an "awww, fuck, I missed a Tolkien, now how do I squeeze it in?" outburst.
- If you're balancing precariously on a stepladder, with a small stack of books in your hands, said stack of books won't crumble and fall until you've almost pushed it onto the shelf.
- Any stack of books will fall in such a way that it'll knock over a couple other stacks in the process, and force you to spend the following five minutes picking up books from every corner of the room and rearranging the stacks.
- Italian publishing houses are quite clueless in terms of book cover design. They're quite capable, for instance, of making the covers of the first two books in a series a nice dark blue, then making the cover of the third and last one orange, so it looks like utter shit when the series is grouped together on a shelf.