I have an embarrassing confession to make: I collect cat books. Not that series of "The Cat Who..." mysteries by Lilian Jackson Braun. Not even the Cleveland Amory ones. No, I collect little cat books. Wee little itty bitty tiny mouse-sized cat books. Miniature editions. Stocking stuffers. The kind you'd find on a spin rack.

Some of them take themselves very seriously indeed, as you can tell from their rather hyperbolic titles: In the Company of Cats: A Tribute...