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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I used to work in a library, and I hate this. We used to have both a “2001: a space Odyssey” and a “two thousand and one: a space oddesey”, sorted based on the spelling.

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JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Isn’t that part of the reason we have Dewey/LoC system?

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- Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Those are for academic books, not novels. And you’d still sort everything within a category alphabetically by author and then by title (usually)
  
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  - JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I found Larry Flynt’s autobiography at my university’s library using the LCCN system.
    
    Then again that’s a University library so it might be different.
    
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