The printing of titles on book spines

Re:The printing of titles on book spines by jccalhoun on Saturday June 03, 2017 @12:25PM (#14477088)

I have always hated it when an occasional book (english language) puts the title on the spine the other way. I wonder why that happens. I've never considered that in other languages it might be normal to do it the other way. I wonder if books which have the title on the spine the other way are more likely to be translations?

Most of my paper book are in my office or in boxes so I can't check right now.

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Re:The printing of titles on book spines by chias on Saturday June 03, 2017 @03:15PM (#14477948)

Reminds me of the Monk dvd set:

http://bilder.stubb.de/bilder/Monk.jpg

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Re:The printing of titles on book spines by v64 on Saturday June 03, 2017 @04:07PM (#14478227)

I would hope given the title character's nature that this was done intentionally :)

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Re:The printing of titles on book spines by Casseres on Sunday June 04, 2017 @02:30AM (#14480154)

That's actually two different sets from two different countries mixed together to achieve that. If you do a product search and look at the images, you'll see what the set is really supposed to look like, and it's not that.

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Re:The printing of titles on book spines by paulddraper on Saturday June 03, 2017 @09:46PM (#14479499)

You sadist.

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Re:The printing of titles on book spines by rangibaby on Saturday June 03, 2017 @10:45PM (#14479649)

I think it depends more on which country they were printed in / preference of the publisher. I have a multi-lingual book and some printings of it have a European spine, others a Western spine.

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Re:The printing of titles on book spines by rmyorston on Saturday June 03, 2017 @07:22PM (#14479043)

I can see three books on my shelves that have horizontal titles. All the rest have the text from top to bottom with one exception, my PhD thesis.

This has always bothered me.

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Re:The printing of titles on book spines by jonsen on Saturday June 03, 2017 @02:07PM (#14477577)

Or simply from a european publisher. At least some english language books from the german publisher Springer has the spine "reversed".

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Re:The printing of titles on book spines by kuschku on Saturday June 03, 2017 @02:29PM (#14477701)

So that’s why US books have the title the wrong way around?

The few english books I have in my shelf (I’m German, all German books are oriented the same way) are exactly the wrong way around!

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