Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺I was today years old when I realized German and English speakers write the titles of books in the opposite direction on the spine.
Estarriol, Terrorist DragonEuropean publishers go that way generally, UK & USA go the other way
@Thebratdragon That doesn't seem to be the case generally, see the reply by @EricLawton above. I also checked the small number of Russian books we have, and they are about half-half.
Weirdly, while the "literature" books we have in German are almost universally the "reverse" direction, we have two German cookbooks and a gardening book that go the "English" way. Might fit with @royvangrunsven's point that when it's laying down the "English" way is right side up. Perhaps that is of more concern with a book that spends more time than usual on its side?