Just finished a book that's a natural for word lovers.
"The Grand Complication" by Allen Kurzweil an imprint of Hyperion, New York
ISBN 0-7868-6603-9 aand currently available at your local library of bookstore.

The "Girdle This" in post header? It is not what leaps to mind!

To quote the booknotes on the jacket :
"Narrated by Alexander Short, a stylish young reference librariann of arcane interests, The Grand Complication propels the reader through a card catalogue of desperation and delight, of intrigue and theft. It's a novel of suspense that comes full circle, with a clockmaker's precision and a storyteller's surprise, on page 360"

Recommended -- and a delight for it's vocabulary!
When was the last time the word "abcdenarian" turned up in a converstaion in a fiction book you were reading? Followed in the next few pages by an apt allusion to "volume visualization?"