have to confess I’m obsessed with collecting dictionaries and reference books. For instance, when we were sailing along the Newfoundland coast, I found a collection of wonderful drawings of the various shapes of icebergs with the proper names of their shapes underneath each drawing, like blocky, wedge, drydock, pinnacle… Dictionaries and reference books are a lovely thing to have on your shelf. Sadly, I have been using online dictionaries more and more often because this way I can retrieve information much faster and the quality of online dictionaries has improved over the last years I must say.