> And sometimes gets to obscure-ish research books long before me, which is always a little funny.

lol... reminds me a bit of how, in the home where i grew up, sometimes someone in the house would get curious about whatever book my mom had just checked out from the library for book club, and then they'd read it before she had a chance to get to it, and then someone ELSE would pick it up after that, and then before long the entire family would've read it EXCEPT FOR MOM, who'd be like "look i don't want to discourage anyone reading, i'm glad everyone is inexplicably excited about this particular book, but can you all PLEASE finish up so i have a prayer of reading this myself before my actual book club meeting"... it always led to particularly lively dinner table discussions lol

(thank you; glad you liked the writeups!)