Books on shelves in my house start at the first one on the left and move to the last one on the right (because I naturally expect to read left to right, and to start at the first one).
Books in stacks in my house start at the last one on the bottom and finish at the first one on the top (because then I can take the first one from the top of the pile and when I've finished it, be reasonably certain that the next one to read is the next in the pile).
I'm slightly disturbed to find that for each of those paragraphs I was visualising a particular series of books. The first is the Dragonrider books and the second is the Anne of Green Gables books. These are by no means the only series of books in my house, they are not my favourite series of books, and although I read AoGG recently, I've not read any Dragonrider books for years, and I haven't read the rest of AoGG for even longer. How peculiar.
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Re: Books going right to left
Date: 2003-04-01 02:30 am (UTC)Books in stacks in my house start at the last one on the bottom and finish at the first one on the top (because then I can take the first one from the top of the pile and when I've finished it, be reasonably certain that the next one to read is the next in the pile).
I'm slightly disturbed to find that for each of those paragraphs I was visualising a particular series of books. The first is the Dragonrider books and the second is the Anne of Green Gables books. These are by no means the only series of books in my house, they are not my favourite series of books, and although I read AoGG recently, I've not read any Dragonrider books for years, and I haven't read the rest of AoGG for even longer. How peculiar.