Words I like...

How do you separate a word from what it means? Do you mean you like these words purely for the sounds they make? Or do you like them because they mean something obscure, and feel a bit of ownership over them?

Words as things is weird – it's like people who obsess about books as objects, and hate folded down corners and broken spines, but care little about actually reading them.

'Words' are things/objects regardless of whether they're conceived of as meaning something (in which case they truly are words) or meaning nothing (in which case they are, arguably, not words--I know that it is possible to imagine and invent sound sequences that sound like words but don't have a meaning associated with them, but I don't think 'words' without meaning fall under the concept of a 'word'.

Do you mean this, that 'words' without a meaning associated with them are weird? Or that words if considered irrespective of a meaning that may be associated with them are weird/the people who do this are engaged in a weird activity?

It sounds as if you mean the latter. Naturally, it is often very important to 'know' words irrespective of their meaning--it's what children who acquire language for the first time do primarily for a long time before they begin to understand conceptual associations. I also think that liking words for their mere sound (or perhaps thinking that the respective sounds ought to be associated with different meanings) is perfectly sane, even as a grown-up, obviously only as long as you don't give up enjoying language and words for their meaning at the same time.

As for this thread, somewhat unsurprisingly, it'll be a mixture of enjoying both sounds and meanings, sometimes their exact combination, to different degrees, and for different reasons. I don't think that there is an either-or at all.