Shelving survey

[vettecat]

sdavido and I are having a difference of opinion, and I'm curious as to how other people feel about it...

Imagine, if you will, a series of related books. Let's use Garfield books as an example. I say they should be shelved with the first volume on the right (3, 2, 1), because the titles are oriented that way; if you tilt your head to read the titles, you will be reading from right-to-left on the shelf, with right being the "top" of the title. SD- says they should be shelved with the first volume on the left (1, 2, 3), because English reads left-to-right. But then when you read across the titles you're going in the wrong direction, which feels odd to me.

(Stacking them vertically, which is the easiest way around the problem, won't work in many cases because of the space available.)

What say you, fellow bibliophiles?

[Poll #1110996]

Edit: Assume I'm talking about English books here...

Comments

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

benveniste suggests shelving them alphabetically:

* Eight
* Five
* Four
* Nine
* One
* Seven
* Six
* Ten
* Three
* Two

He is a sick puppy.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Bop him with a pillow for me...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's kinda how they arranged the episodes on the American Gothic DVD set....