Perfect Description of Frustrating Research Effort from Lev Grossman’s novel “Codex”

While reading author Lev Grossman’s 2004 book Codex I came across a brilliant scene where the protagonist Edward Wozny, a “hotshot young banker” bizarrely drafted to catalog a client’s un-described, crated library, makes a number of common first time researcher mistakes. Before processing the books Wozney’s employers warned him to watch for a particular book…