Spanish library books
I was at our library last night ( in the United States) and was browsing in the spanish section, looking for a novel to read.
In our librarys the books are placed so that you read the title and author on the spine from the top down. At the bottom of the spine the library puts their dewey decimal code.
In the spanish section of our library, half the books are placed to read the title from the top down and the others are from the bottom up. Of course this makes it very difficult to go down the aisle searching for books.
I was just wondering if in Mexico they place the books in the opposite direction as in the US and someone at the library decided to start changing them here.
2 Answers
In the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, titles are usually written top-to-bottom, and this practice is reflected in an industry standard;[18] when the book is placed on a table with the front cover upwards, the title is correctly oriented left-to-right on the spine. In most of continental Europe, the general convention is to print titles bottom-to-top on the spine.
I don't know about Mexico, but in France and Spain, the spine reads from the bottom up.
