Clever solution or one OCD step too far?

For years friends and colleagues have teased me mercilessly about colour coding book spines. I saw it in a design magazine once and have been quite obsessive about it since. It’s true the books in that feature were coffee table-type tomes (not weighty, worthy classics) but I think the concept holds true: not only is it aesthetically pleasing, but if you’re at all a visual person, it’s a great way to organise your books (or anything else facing spine out ie DVDs, CDs… pesky, ugly things to display and far better left in a closed box or cupboard, if you ask me).

Simply think of the book cover and you can usually locate it within minutes.