"Until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album." –Jack White

Mr. White never lied, y'all. That and another solid quote from Questlove are about the best things in these pages, which otherwise have some useful notes at the back about caring for one's collection, how to value it (OK, a bit of new-to-me info there), and the various speeds of records. (Flashback to how I laughed aloud in fall 2021 when today's youth in the Taylor Swift fandom were hopping on social to complain that their records of her latest folky releases were messed up, that she "sounds like a man" ... because these children had the vinyl set on the wrong speed.)

While not sure what precisely I expected from this DIY, make-it-from-errr-scratch book, it generally left me wanting. Procured from West Elm, I hoped it would have more to it than literally just writing in myself the album title, artist, year, country, catalog number, etc., about each record of the 350ish I own. I've got my blissful Discogs account for that. I do love this book's cover, namely for how it texturally feels like a record, and I might bring myself to forsake my phone's Notes app and actually use the (far too many) pages dedicated to listing my most-wanted vinyl.