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

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Actually, the second diagram has the spines the wrong way around for a left-to-right reader. But they are the right way for stacked volumes. The trouble with a stack is the difficult in getting at volumes near the bottom.