No, it can't be the consignment issue because she's never been to the consignment store. All she has ever done in her short life is play chess, read, and fall in love with her boss. She's very poor, and I was looking forward to those medical journals helping to meet my little Bookworm's need for reading material. The only thing in her inventory is the glitched journal, the beeper, and a book that I removed and put back (as you suspected, removing the book didn't make any difference). I will likely try moving her out, but first I think I'll just leave things alone for a while. If she can get away with not reading the journals - if that performance indicator doesn't drop below Normal - I may just leave it.