Devine Lu LinvegaNov 4
rek: We must travel light.
/me immediately puts three thick paperbacks in a camera bag.
Show threadDevine Lu LinvegaNov 6
French books bindings go from bottom up,
English books top down.
It's annoying.
Show threadstage7 

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

Yes, there's an ISO for that.

Nov 6 at 4:50pmWeb
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.