Devine Lu LinvegaNov 4
rek: We must travel light.
/me immediately puts three thick paperbacks in a camera bag.
Show threadDevine Lu Linvega
French books bindings go from bottom up,
English books top down.
It's annoying.
Nov 6 at 4:43pmWeb
Show threadJohn Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️Nov 6
@neauoire so French books don't count against the packing total?
Show threadDevine Lu LinvegaNov 6
@johnefrancis no, those are just freebees.
Show threadJohn Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️Nov 6
@neauoire they are out of phase with English packing restrictions, there is no coupling.
Show threadstage7 Nov 6

@neauoire Turns out according to ISO 6357, the French are doing it wrong.

Yes, there's an ISO for that.

Show threadMrs BeanbagNov 6
@stage7 @neauoire gotta side with ISO on this one. you can read the spine when the books are sat on a horizontal surface.
Show threadDevine Lu LinvegaNov 6
@mrsbeanbag @stage7 it's a good point, although, when I scan the bookshelf(which is the usual habitat of books), I tend to go from left to right, top to down, so the bottom-up binding feels more natural to me..
Show threadMrs BeanbagNov 6
@neauoire @stage7 yeah it kinda messes things up when you have a series of books as well. maybe we should start books at the back. but then we'd want to put them on the table the other way up. i sometimes think about this kind of thing. i've yet to discover an entirely consistent solution.
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@neauoire uhm, apparently in Italy we don't have a standard... even among books of the same publisher
Show thread0gust1Nov 6
@zabow @neauoire in France too... each time I try to reorganize my shelves I cry a bit.
Show threadPatNov 6
@neauoire would a French manga written in Arabic be the most exciting combination? Spine bottom-up, page order back-to-front, sentence order right-to-left...
Show threadOblomovNov 6
@neauoire in Italy it's completely random so when you browse a library or book store you do that little head dance “lean left, lean right, left, left, left, right, left, right etc”
Show threadArtyom BologovNov 6
@neauoire you have a perfect idea of how my neck strains in multilingual bookshops (= all bookshops in Armenia) from all this tilting to one side and then the other
Show threadAiden Fox IveyNov 7

@neauoire happens whenever i visit quebec and come back with books lol

hurts the aesthetic quality of bookshelves