alt Hacker NewsWhat is very surprising for me is the height of the books. If you look closer at the picture, seems that most of the books are the same height, so that's very strange for any book collection except if he was collecting the same book editors or... Am missing something ?
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Space savings... when you get to those numbers it starts to matter and I think he just saw a shortcut because the same format books store more compactly together and usually print the same authors.
I think he sorted them by height. If you look closer you can see also shelfs with different sized books that were too non standard.
That was the first thing I noticed - a lot of those book covers look shockingly uniform. Maybe there’s more standardization in localized German publishers?
Yah, I noticed that, too.
The infamous Bookshelf of Procrustes where every book fits - too tall books have their tops lopped off and too short books are stretched out.
I think the answer is in the article text "all meticulously sectioned by publisher". Book sizes differ somewhat between publishers, but each publisher tends to only print books in a few standard sizes. For the paperback editions this is even more reduced, it usually looks to me like all paperbacks from one publisher are the same size.