Back in my pre-online days, I bought a lot of books via good old-fashioned mail-order catalogs, and even though this habit ended long ago, I still get quite a few book-related mailings in my daily allotment of recycling fodder. Sometimes this can lead to situations that I find perversely amusing. Yesterday, for example, I received a flyer advertising a new biography of the late president of the LDS Church, Gordon B. Hinckley. This on the same day that I also received a fat, full-color catalog from a company that specializes in, among other things, volumes of pin-up art and nude photography.

I can’t imagine what my poor mail carrier must think…