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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

Agent641 @lemmy.world

2mo ago

This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason

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mildly satisfying and infuriating at the same time!
- Wildly Satisfuriating.
  
  My life IRL

Nothing like drinking a hot tea on a stormy afternoon and curling up with a good book of orange!
- A nice blue book on a hot days is quite refreshing
- Wait until your mood turns dark.
  
  Perhaps a forbidden and zesty dark purple tome.

"Meh, who 'reads' books? It's pretty!"
Store shelver probably.
- "The books are all broken, none of them connect to social media."
  
  One of my favorite stories is from 2011:
  "A magazine is an iPad that does not work."
  https://youtu.be/aXV-yaFmQNk
  That baby is now 13, maybe 14 years old.
- They just focus on the dollar value
  Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGJLZDLpUg

Interior design suppliers let you place orders like "6 feet of purple books."
- Booksbythefoot
- One of the last renovation shows I watched just put the books backwards for a "clean look"
  
  Wait what? Can you even do that? A clean look? What!?

I'm in the mood to read something orange today.

My mum used to do this to my books in my room and I hated it
- 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.
  
  But do they actually read and watch the books and dvds? Cause my mom doesn't read, so books are just decorations to her
  
  Direct action > nonviolent protest, got it.
  
  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.

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.

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.
- It's apparently what they call a thrift store in Australia and New Zealand. They sell used goods for charity.
- 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.
- It's a shortening of opportunity shop

This is a far more rational order than the chaos that is our bookshelves:
And that is after significant weeding.
We did try with the paperbacks, but we decided "fuck it" after a while.
- I might be weird, but I like the look of a full but chaotic bookshelf.
- Putting the wooden doll up one shelf with the other humanoid figures would be a good start.
  
  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."

i love it. searching through old books at a resale shop is a great setting for randomness to explore

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.
- 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.
  
  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?

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.
- 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 sorting at all.
  Edit: alternatively, a quick Google image search of the book name would tell you all you need to know to quickly find it in a colorful sorting.
  
  Or book jackets. That's what I'd do. Gives an opportunity for creative outlet, too!
  
  it's ridiculous and insane.
  
  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.

"I'd like to buy a book, please" "What are you interested in?" "A blue one!"

Maybe they’ll further alphabetize it after sorting by color… hahah right. What a mess
- First color, then size, THEN alphabetical.
  
  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.

Could it be... Aesthetics?

Finally! Something mildly infuriating!

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarfffff

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