Whoever inherits my library will be surprised (well, perhaps not now) to find, tucked in some of the books, the New York Times obituary of the author. The most recent author to get this insert was Umberto Eco. I have no copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. And I have no copy of The Name of the Rose; the obit went into How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays. And, since I didn't get the Times the day the obit ran, I had to print it off the Internet. So instead of a thin page of tightly-worded newsprint, folded once, How to Travel With a Salmon now bulges with six 8.5x11 pieces of paper, folded twice. The moral: always buy the paper.
