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Hey RDN! If you put a book series on a shelf, would you do it like so: http://pny.lv/057ku or like so: http://pny.lv/057kv ?
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 21:49:11 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin second one
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 21:50:46 UTC from web-
@tiffany There are no wrong answers except that one
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 21:55:09 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin I'd feel too inclined to push them inwards if they were jutting out
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 21:56:09 UTC from web-
@tiffany Oh, maybe I didn't explain the question. I was asking whether you'd put the first book in the series on the left or the right.
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 21:57:00 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin oh I see. in that case first one goes on the left
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 21:57:49 UTC from web-
@tiffany WRONG AGAIN, mangoER
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:00:33 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin cherry you?
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:00:58 UTC from web-
@tiffany I was having a debate with my brother and my sister-in-law about it. She thinks they should be placed left-to-right, since that's the order we read in, but my brother and I say that they should be right-to-left due to the spine text's orientation making it a top-to-bottom list.
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:05:45 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin left-to-right works better for me since I organise everything alphabetically but I see your point of view now
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:08:22 UTC from web-
@tiffany Tiff if you read Harry Potter in alphabetical order then I'm afraid you did it wrong
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:10:42 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin joke's on you, I haven't read any of them
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:11:00 UTC from web
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@thelastgherkin I also organize my books of the same series sequentially left to right
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:04:58 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal I'd do it left-to-right IF the spine text is either horizontal OR read from bottom-to-top. If every book did that, there'd be one unequivocally correct way.
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:09:39 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin I understand your reasoning now. With me I don't really pay much heed to the spine text, I'm generally just more concerned with ordering them from earliest to latest and moving my eyes from left to right is a more natural motion for me.
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@thelastgherkin I just looked how I order my books. I do both ways, although the majority is sorted from right to left.
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:10:43 UTC from Choqok-
@adiwan I was reading somewhere that more European/non-English books actually have their spine text oriented the other way, a-like a-this. http://pny.lv/057nv Do you have any of those?
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:15:53 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin I have plenty of those. For example all my German Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams books have this spine text orientation.
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:21:05 UTC from Choqok-
@adiwan I wish my spines had that orientation. Welp, guess that's going to bug me forever until the next distraction.
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:28:25 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin It's funny that I have those sorted from right to left. The text orientation doesn't bother me on books but it bothers me on video games. 95% have the text from top to bottom. I have a few games that are the other way around and those stick out in an annoying way.
Thursday, 21-Jan-16 22:37:14 UTC from Choqok
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