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Visited a bookstore in Asheville and noticed they shelved all their new releases backwards
The owner said it forces browsers to actually pull the book off the shelf and look at the cover... has anyone else seen this in the wild or is it just a quirky local thing?
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gonzalez.anna15d ago
The backwards books thing is genius, I love it. My local shop does the same.
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spencer_ross15d ago
Aw man that's cool but also kinda stressful. I'd be the idiot who pulls a book, can't figure out which way is up, and ends up reading the copyright page for 5 minutes before realizing. Honestly that's probably why they do it, to weed out people like me who can barely read a map let alone a backwards spine.
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