science spending spree!

Few things make me happier than ordering books without any thought to the price, because the no-cost-extension of the grant is expiring soon. I happen to work in an area where single-author monographs and contributed volumes from the 1950s-1970s are very useful, so some very expensive used books are coming my way!

I wonder how many other fields still find the literature (especially the non-journal literature) from the pre-pubmed era so useful...