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I have always hated it when an occasional book (english language) puts the title on the spine the other way. I wonder why that happens. I've never considered th
by jccalhoun 9y ago
I have always hated it when an occasional book (english language) puts the title on the spine the other way. I wonder why that happens. I've never considered that in other languages it might be normal to do it the other way. I wonder if books which have the title on the spine the other way are more likely to be translations?
Most of my paper book are in my office or in boxes so I can't check right now.
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- jonsen 9y agoOr simply from a european publisher. At least some english language books from the german publisher Springer has the spine "reversed".
- kuschku 9y agoSo that’s why US books have the title the wrong way around? The few english books I have in my shelf (I’m German, all German books are oriented the same way) are exactly the wrong way around!
- chias 9y agoReminds me of the Monk dvd set: http://bilder.stubb.de/bilder/Monk.jpg http://bilder.stubb.de/bilder/Monk.jpg
- v64 9y agoI would hope given the title character's nature that this was done intentionally :)
- paulddraper 9y agoYou sadist.
- Casseres 9y agoThat's actually two different sets from two different countries mixed together to achieve that. If you do a product search and look at the images, you'll see what the set is really supposed to look like, and it's not that.
- rmyorston 9y agoI can see three books on my shelves that have horizontal titles. All the rest have the text from top to bottom with one exception, my PhD thesis. This has always bothered me.
- rangibaby 9y agoI think it depends more on which country they were printed in / preference of the publisher. I have a multi-lingual book and some printings of it have a European spine, others a Western spine.