Joel ([info]kalessin) wrote,
@ 2005-06-16 10:35:00
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Art books...
Tired of the old Dewey Decimal? Bored with Library-of-Congress classification? Widener Library at Harvard doesn't have enough concurrent classification systems for your taste? Bookstore categories too narrow?

Try the new, the wow, the totally-California way...

A whole bookstore arranged by color!

Article about the art.

More photos.


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[info]chanaleh
2005-06-16 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Oooooh, so neat! I want to go there! (Before they put it back the way it was...)

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[info]kalessin
2005-06-16 04:24 pm UTC (link)
Regrettably, time-travel would be necessary, because the installation was for a week or two last November. However, there are a few perfect local candidates for an East-coast homage -- how about McIntyre & Moore or Lorem Ipsum? :-)

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[info]chanaleh
2005-06-16 04:42 pm UTC (link)
Ah! Lorem Ipsum is smaller and shinier... and needs the publicity. Let's make them do it!

(Dude, and they have a blog... Now if only I could figure out how to syndicate it to LJ; they seem to supply RSS code for each entry, but I don't see a main syndication stream...)

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[info]mrmorse
2005-06-16 04:47 pm UTC (link)
I had a friend in high school who sorted part of his CD collection by color, and I know someone now who has one bookcase sorted by color.

I keep thinking I want to sort my books by publisher, just for kicks.

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[info]coraline
2005-06-16 05:04 pm UTC (link)
i know someone who claimed his video collection was alphabetized by key grip.

i never checked this, but he was just the sort of sicko would would have.

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[info]chanaleh
2005-06-16 05:10 pm UTC (link)
I would argue that "by publisher" would actually be a somewhat meaningful categorization.

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[info]mrmorse
2005-06-16 05:47 pm UTC (link)
Well, yeah, that's part of the appeal. See what sort of order pops out.

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[info]kalessin
2005-06-16 05:50 pm UTC (link)
You can see this in action at the Mobile Book Fair (on Needham Street in Newton Highlands). They're such a big and varied store that they sort their new books by publisher because it's easier to cope with the shipments coming in.

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[info]42itous
2005-06-16 09:20 pm UTC (link)
Hee! When I was about 12, I'd read all the books that the local YA librarian could recommend. The library had a 10-book limit on borrowing, so I chose ten books with red spines, borrowed them, read them all (some were better than others -- this is how I discovered Freaky Friday), and returned the following week for ten yellow books.

I think I am weary of keeping my CDs in alphabetical order by artist.

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[info]vettecat
2005-06-17 06:09 am UTC (link)
Cool idea! But, of course, in looking at the pictures, I want to go in and group the shades together... :-)

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[info]lifecollage
2005-08-12 03:20 am UTC (link)
I must have missed this when you first posted it.

The funny thing is, I've had so many reference questions that begin, "Well, I don't know the author or the title or the plot or the characters or the subject, but it's a bright blue book with a white dog on the cover!" So, for a small segment of the population, this arrangement would be perfect.

Not that I'm endorsing that or anything... ;^)

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