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XKCD - Book sorting (xkcd.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.pathoris.de/post/2880

Shouldn't books be sorted by ISBN? :-)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The correct method of sorting is by randomly assigning each book a unique identifier that only you are aware of and organizing by that.

It's like the Dewey decimal system but more creative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's just a "more steps" version of my method which is to jam it randomly onto the closest shelf wherever it fits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I enjoy the Algorithms to Live By strategy of putting the most recently read book "first". So the left-most book on the shelf is the last book I read

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good book, I took the same idea from there too I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is my method as well. A few weeks ago I took out a book from a shelf because and then couldn't put it back even though it was on that shelf a few minutes ago.