And people ask us library staff what we read in our spare time...

Gossip mags, mostly. Four newish ones arrived on the staffroom table this morning, curtesy of one of the cataloguers. My lunchtime was originally earmarked for a period of stolid study. It was instead given over to exclamations over: how Kirsty Alley has got, how thin Sophie Dahl is now and how envious we are of Salma Hayek, who is 37, doesn't exercise, eats what she likes and looks like a goddess.