on a bookcase, multi-volume title, volumes start from the:
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The simple solution is left-to-right and upside down.
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you joke but the zuozhuan edition I got printed the spine upside down on one of the three volumes
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There's a little Russian riddle about this kind of thing that goes "The 123 trilogy consists of three books, 250 pages each. A worm in a library ate all the pages from the first page of Book1 to the last page of Book2, how many pages did the worm eat?"
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Left to right but also put them pages-out, spines to the wall.
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Left to right but upside-down is the objectively correct opinion.
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oh no endianness is inescapable
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i've never even thought of that... you only read one at a time
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You have a spatial point, but you can’t read a closed, shelved book.
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However, I would argue that books need to be arranged the way you say when stacked vertically.
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When I want to read fast I turn on noclip and run through a bookcase
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And in three little tweets, Alice Maz destroyed civilization as we know it...
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That's a bit of a misnomer though, when you read the book, the words on the cover are backwards. You're applying a transformation to it by taking it off the shelf, that needs to be accounted for.
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