European publishers are retarded

[Anonymous No.19087394]

They still print the title upsidedown on the spine (pic related) despite the fact that there is no good justification for it other than "it's always been that way."
I also live in a city with a large French speaking population, so the shelves at the public library are strewn with books in both English and French, not sorted by language. So, when I'm browsing the shelves, I'm cranking my head in all sorts of directions.

Je les maudis, tous.

[Anonymous No.19087397]

>table of contents is at the back of the book

[Anonymous No.19087408]

I don't see the problem

[Anonymous No.19087417]

>>19087408
Whiplash/neck sprain?

[Anonymous No.19087490]

>>19087397
>anything over 500 pages gets released in two volumes instead of one.

[Anonymous No.19087505]

>>19087490
that's actually good. stfu, I don't want to carry a 2000 pages behemoth with me everywhere.
A paperback longer than a thousand pages is completely unjustifiable for me.

[Anonymous No.19087510]

>>19087417
>Whiplash
Who stole the fucking book?

[Anonymous No.19087546]

>>19087394
I find it hilarious that the EU actually regulated this and defined the regulation opposite of the standard for most of the world at the time. On top of that they do not even enforce the regulation so you get a mix of both ways and almost all non-EU countries and pre EU books still do it the other way making browsing shelves irksome at best.

[Anonymous No.19087576]

>Not the chad horizontal printing

[Anonymous No.19087590]

>>19087394
>Y-yuros are retarded!
Touch more books.

[Anonymous No.19087606]

>>19087505
Except Folio seems to do it at random. Someone explain the frog-logic that justifies pic rel.

[Anonymous No.19087656]

>>19087606
>Guermantes I - 900
>Guermantes II - 88
What

Anyway, right book looks newer. There was a time when "Livres de poche" were really pocketable.

[Anonymous No.19087741]

>>19087606
>900
>88
What is this shit?

[Anonymous No.19087743]

Fuck eurofags

[Anonymous No.19087744]

>>19087741
That's the # of the book in the collection.

[Anonymous No.19087754]

>>19087394
If it's not the American way, it must be right for some reason or other. I don't care.

[Anonymous No.19087758]

>>19087754
There's no "American way." Both ways are European.

[Anonymous No.19087818]

>>19087744
Why would part II be published 900 volumes later? That's the question.

[Anonymous No.19087853]

>>19087606
fine, I'll not shill for French publishers, but I would much rather have that than the War and Peace in a single paperback volume that English-language publishers like to throw at you.

[Anonymous No.19087967]

>>19087818
It's even funnier when you notice that the 900 is volume I

[Anonymous No.19088441]

>>19087853
That's because you have limp, glass-boned wrists and tiny, feminine hands.

[Anonymous No.19088564]

>>19087606
they were published as two different books you fucking retard.
the latest folio edition has one volume for Guermantes though, but that's now it was initially published

[Anonymous No.19088618]

>>19088564
And part II was published first?
Seems like massive cope

[Anonymous No.19088673]

>>19088441
fuck off. the problem is fitting the book in a backpack everyday. some people leave their houses, you know.

[Anonymous No.19088719]

>>19087606
>publish part II of a book with no context whatsoever within first 100 releases
>800+ books later publish part I as an afterthought
I knew folio was based, but I never realized they were /this/ based

[Anonymous No.19088774]

Here in Brazil, almost all publishers follow the American style of spines — except for the biggest one, which follow the European style.
So, now, since they began a partnership with Penguin, we have mirrored Penguin Classics here. For you OCDs out there.

[Anonymous No.19088784]

>>19088774
(I forgot tho make it 100% clear, but the Poe's one is not Brazilian)

[Anonymous No.19089148]

>>19087394
>there is no good justification for it
You can read the titles from left to right while the books are on the shelf.
When the book is on the table, it will either show the spine upside down (unreadable) and the front cover (readable), or the front cover hidden and the spine the right way up (readable), thus securing that the title is always readable.
Any justification for the reverse direction (reading from top to bottom)?

>>19087546
Well, I don't know about the entire non-EU world, but Russia does it also, bottom to top direction.

[Anonymous No.19089172]

>>19087656
>>19087741
That's a 006 you doofus

[Anonymous No.19089177]

>>19087576
based nearsighted book designers

[Anonymous No.19089251]

>>19088774
I'm feeling dizzy.

[Anonymous No.19089299]

>>19088774
>4032x3024

Fuck off

[Anonymous No.19089302]

>>19089148
The front cover should never be face down. With the book resting horizontally on the back cover, the spine should not be upside down.

[Anonymous No.19089315]

I never ever thought about this problem until today, now looking at my library makes my OCD flare up
thanks /lit/ as always

[Anonymous No.19089328]

>>19089302
>The front cover should never be face down
Says who?

[Anonymous No.19089442]

>>19087394
>No colored spine
Dropped. A white spine will throw off my entire bookshelf rainbow

[Anonymous No.19090288]

>>19089172
>i-its a 6!
>the eights have the larger circle on top
What did you mean by this

[Anonymous No.19090362]

>>19088673
>not just carrying everything in your hands like a real man
NGMI

[Anonymous No.19091585]

Thanks OP, I never noticed this before and now I have one more thing to be autistic about.