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

Re: This is an old old error

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Just re-thinking your reply. If the books are inserted into boxes, the way some DVD sets are these days then the spine of those boxes reverse the order and everything works out neat... like your (joking?) suggestion of the spine being on the wrong side.

I had assumed you were joking, because the binding is what holds the pages together and it doesn't matter which side the binding is on because the books will still open exactly the same way. But if you were referring to switching the label on the edge (using a box the volume slides into, or a flap over the non-spine edge), then yes, that fixes everything.

From Your Drawings

[senseless.livejournal.com]

It appeared to me if the binding were on the other side people being people would turn the stack around so the binding is out but now the books are ordered 3 2 1 in spite of being read left to right and everything is fixed in the my Universe.