If asked to arrange books in a pile I'd put the first one on the top.
It may be that your book-pile-arranging is done with the underlying knowledge that turning them afterwards puts them in the 'wrong' order, while the rest of the world just follows the 'top-down' rule without having thought about what happens when they put them in the bookcase.
Re: Books going right to left
Date: 2003-04-01 02:11 am (UTC)If asked to arrange books in a pile I'd put the first one on the top.
It may be that your book-pile-arranging is done with the underlying knowledge that turning them afterwards puts them in the 'wrong' order, while the rest of the world just follows the 'top-down' rule without having thought about what happens when they put them in the bookcase.