anybody noticed this before?

[miriam_e]

When you put volumes of books on a shelf the information inside is organised in an odd fashion. You start at the front of the first volume and move through to its end, then jump over to the start of the second volume and go through to its end, towards the first volume, and so on. This is quite discontinuous.

And it isn't any better if, like the Japanese, you read right to left.

Comments

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

But one gets away with it, because one doesn't read volumes of books at a time; one generally picks up a volume at a time, and a volume is internally consistent with how one reads.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. It is probably why is seems rarely noticed too.

We have an amazing ability to compartmentalise information. In this particular case it is completely unimportant... but tickles me somehow. :)