@victorgijsbers I've managed to implement a variant of your idea using a Table of Book Titles (so I finally learned how tables are used) and I really like the effect! I also managed to trigger an Inform compiler bug by making the table too large, but I think you've see my post about that already. The problem is, I'm sure now my wife will try to make the character pick one of the books by title, so I need to replace the "I can't see any such thing" with an appropriate error message!@jimfl