I love books. I love order. I love beautiful things moving to music.
Alora, I love this video! Despite this love, I find it deeply unsettling to watch – are the books in order, at the end? Are they easy to reference? I can’t tell. I think not. That hurts me.
HOWEVER: The fact that the wonderful folk who made it credited all of the books totally makes up for it. I’m sure they can find the ones they need, if they can give them all credit for their debut performance.
I recommend a great book, The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski, basically a history of books and their storage/cataloging systems. Personal systems vary greatly and include shelving books in alpha order, pub date order, topic order, and size/shape.
Thanks Ray! I’ll check it out – though, as you might imagine, I have an extensive reading list already. And, as you might imagine, I tend to skip around in it.