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Most books would fall into groups.
Illustrations tall, Mass market paperbacks short, Readers Digest Condensed all together. romances in two or three slugs. Audio books and cd's and cassette tapes mostly all together.
Books would not eat or hide or warp each other because they are the same size.
They
would take up less storage space because they would fit the shelves almost exactly.
Young children or robots or Alzheimer patients could do the sorting and shelving, since you need not learn the Alphabet.
You go into a store/library organized according to height along spine. And say.
"I'd like to see all the 9 and a half inch books you have.
Oh you've gone metric. Well show me all your 241/242 mm books."
Book Size
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_size
[Spacecoyote, Jun 20 2014]
some interesting facts for Max (depends on what you call interesting)
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/facts.php
[xandram, Jun 24 2014]
[link]
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My bookcase takes up a wall'n'half, filled with paperbacks and is, more importantly, _sized_ for paperbacks, with about .5cm freespace at the top of a book. I probably save $5-6 a year on heating. Now they print paperbacks that are apparently sized to stand out on the bookshelf. I don't _want_ them to stand out, bloody idiots. |
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If we arranged book size alphabetically that would be good. |
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/ If we arranged book size alphabetically that would be good. / |
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Alphabetically by title or authors last name? Assume by Author would work best in a store |
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I do some work in a public library collection where this is the system used to catalogue and display the books. |
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My husband works scanning, sorting and stocking books
at Goodwill. Somehow the books by Sarah Palin and a
few other wing-bats end up in the "too shabby to sell
bin". He would like this system,I think, as most people
that come in have a fixed interest, and as you point
out, most books fall into a given size category. There
are exceptions of course, so don't jump down my
throat and comment about all the exceptions. Nor
about his book censorship. He will do it just because
he can. I can't talk him out of it.Sorry. |
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I like your husband's reviews ;-) I've exercised the final censorship on a few worthy works myself. |
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//by title or authors last name// |
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Author of course. You could spend a whole week just looking to find Stephen Kings' books... without pseudonyms. |
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In the Great Library of Alexandria, scrolls were
arranged according to their width (i.e. the length of
rolled scroll). This was necessary because the scrolls
were filed in earthenware tubes built into the walls,
and the tubes were of various depths. If a scroll was
put into a too-long tube it would be difficult to fish
out, and if it were put into a too-short tube it was
vulnerable to damage. |
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I've always thought those Virginians were backward,
and they talk funny, too. |
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Have you got a source for that, [MaxwellBuchanan]? |
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Try volume 3 of Bearnaise. |
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I never reveal my sources. |
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Good because he's pulling these facts out of his ass. |
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Facts? I don't recall ever claiming to present facts. |
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Quite right. Enough with these transatlantic asses. |
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Fact can mean "something said to be true or
supposed to have happened", therefore actual or
alleged. |
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You want facts? Do you really come here for mere
facts? Facts are so cheap and abundant that
Google gives them away by the million. They can
be had on the back of cereal boxes and on bubble-
gum wrappers. |
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The price of aubergines in Donetsk. The
population of Ohio. The wingspan of a monarch
butterfly. These are all facts, tawdry and
commonplace. |
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Even the word - "fact" - is cheap and vulgar,
closely related to "fart" and "fat". |
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Accuracy, like the Senegalese dollar, is wildly
overvalued. I would prefer one interesting piece
of information over a fact any day. |
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but why do robots want to read books? Don't they
use google? |
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Robots don't need Google, they *are* Google. Right? |
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Line up robots according to how short they are. R2D2 first, then The Tall Diplomatic guy. |
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I don't think it's very nice to call *facts* cheap and
vulgar. Sounds like a joke about yo mama.
Well then again, [Max] has never pretended to be
nice. |
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Beginning with Truman Capote and ending with
Abraham Lincoln, I think. Great idea daddykins. |
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