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anyfoo on July 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pd...

German books have the orientation of the writing on the spine flipped. I don't like storing books upside down, so it makes a mess in my mixed English and German bookshelf.

scotty79 on July 19, 2021 [–]

There's a language-wide order in Germany of direction the of writing on the spines of a books?

I just checked my bookshelf and my books go both ways.

anyfoo on July 19, 2021 | [–]

Ah. I just checked, and while all the English ones seem to have a consistent orientation, the German ones indeed don't. Never noticed, huh...

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