“Meh, who ‘reads’ books? It’s pretty!”
Store shelver probably.
This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason
Submitted 4 months ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
“The books are all broken, none of them connect to social media.”
jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 months ago
One of my favorite stories is from 2011:
“A magazine is an iPad that does not work.”
That baby is now 13, maybe 14 years old.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
They just focus on the dollar value
Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Interior design suppliers let you place orders like “6 feet of purple books.”
doublenut@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Booksbythefoot
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
One of the last renovation shows I watched just put the books backwards for a “clean look”
valek879@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Wait what? Can you even do that? A clean look? What!?
dan1101@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m in the mood to read something orange today.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My mum used to do this to my books in my room and I hated it
SARGE@startrek.website 4 months ago
When I was a child, I once knocked every book off every shelf in the house.
Because I had 6 books in alphabetical order on my little shelf in my room. My mother kept rearranging them in as close a rainbow distribution as possible… I asked her to stop many times, but ultimately decided if you’re going to mess up my shelf, I will mess up yours.
Surprisingly this tactic worked, and they didn’t make me clean up the books by myself, they did most of it.
Their idea of “organizing” the books is “well most of the books in that series are close to each other, but a bunch of other random ones are mixed in, and entire genres have been rearranged many times so who knows what books we even actually have”
They have a similar way of organizing dvds. It’s infuriating.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But do they actually read and watch the books and dvds? Cause my mom doesn’t read, so books are just decorations to her
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Direct action > nonviolent protest, got it.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was in a similar situation. It was the only time I got into a serious fight with my mom. The only difference was that I was an adult already, had around 1800 books, and sorted them by genre, author and series order.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I did this to all my parents’ bookshelves when I was about 8. For the next 45 years they blamed me every time they couldn’t find a book.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What’s an Op Shop?
It looks like a charity shop that I would see around here. They also organise clothes by colour which makes more sense but still, I’m only looking for my size and in a charity shop the clothes are all random so availability is more important.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
It’s apparently what they call a thrift store in Australia and New Zealand.
Jimbo@yiffit.net 4 months ago
An Op Shop is Australasian slang for a thrift store/charity shop. Not to be confused with Opshop, a New Zealand rock band formed in 2002.
Pappabosley@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s a shortening of opportunity shop
eunieisthebus@feddit.org 4 months ago
I think that is mildly satisfying. To be fair: I haven’t seen a single book shop sorting the books alphabetical. A book shop isn’t a library.
kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
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
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 months ago
A book shop isn’t a library.
I don’t get what you mean by this. Customers can go into both looking for something specific or seek out a particular author. If there’s no logical ordering how can customers find what they’re looking for?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is a far more rational order than the chaos that is our bookshelves:
And that is after significant weeding.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I might be weird, but I like the look of a full but chaotic bookshelf.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Putting the wooden doll up one shelf with the other humanoid figures would be a good start.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about. That’s not even supposed to be there. That’s my daughter’s. I have no idea why she decided to put it there apart from the aforementioned “fuck it.”
8000gnat@reddthat.com 4 months ago
i love it. searching through old books at a resale shop is a great setting for randomness to explore
EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 4 months ago
My wife does this to our books and it drives me nuts.
- “Where’s The Art of War?”
- “It’s in the black section”
One year her mom and I reordered them by author last name while she was away on a work trip. Took her 5 seconds upon returning home to notice it was different and she was furious.
SmokyOrange@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Put yourself in her shoes. If she derives joy from a colorful sorting of the books, it’s likely any other sorting would cause some annoyance/anguish (however minor). She would feel this way each time she laid eyes on the bookshelf.
On the other hand, a colorful sorting would only negatively affect you when you are actively looking for a book. I’m guessing that’s far less often than she merely looks at the bookshelf.
A compromise could be that she sorts the books by color and then by authors name. Not the most efficient sorting method for finding books, but would save a considerable amount of time compared to no author name spelling at all.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Or book jackets. That’s what I’d do. Gives an opportunity for creative outlet, too!
toast@retrolemmy.com 4 months ago
On the other hand, a colorful sorting would only negatively affect you when you are actively looking for a book.
No, unfortunately, it would remind me every time that I looked at it that I had somehow married someone who thought this was acceptable.
Ixoid@lemm.ee 4 months ago
“I’d like to buy a book, please” “What are you interested in?” “A blue one!”
b3an@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maybe they’ll further alphabetize it after sorting by color… hahah right. What a mess
Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
First color, then size, THEN alphabetical.
b3an@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ah there is a logic within the madness. Does this make me mad too, or was I crazy to begin with. He cries because he does not know.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 4 months ago
Could it be… Aesthetics?
pseudo@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Finally! Something mildly infuriating!
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarfffff
Primer81@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
mildly satisfying and infuriating at the same time!
teft@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wildly Satisfuriating.
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My life IRL