@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 1 month agoThis Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reasonlemmy.worldmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1260
arrow-up1260imageThis Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reasonlemmy.world@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 month agoI’ve never seen a place selling books not have them organized alphabetically! They might not be libraries but they have an interest in their customers being able to find what they’re looking for
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 month agono, they’re in the business of selling BOOKS, not swatches of colour for the fuckin’ shelf. "Hi I’m looking for a copy of HG Wells’ “The Time Machine” “what colour is it?” “ah. nevermind. fuck this place.”
I’ve never seen a place selling books not have them organized alphabetically! They might not be libraries but they have an interest in their customers being able to find what they’re looking for
Sorted by genre, then alphabetically.
Yup, just like a library
But you can’t deny they’re not libraries.
no, they’re in the business of selling BOOKS, not swatches of colour for the fuckin’ shelf.
"Hi I’m looking for a copy of HG Wells’ “The Time Machine”
“what colour is it?”
“ah. nevermind. fuck this place.”