Registered: August 7, 2007 | Posts: 102 |
| Posted: | | | | I arrange by discs alphabetically on my shelves, but with one catch. Titles that begin with numbers are treated as if the numbers are written alphabetically. 2001: A Space Odyssey is filed under T, as if the title began with "Two Thousand..." 100 Dalmations is treated as "One Hundred and..." I used to sort all numerals the way most people do (I imagine), by putting them all before A. But then, I find it impossible to remember, say, whether it's Twelve Angry Men or 12 Angry Men, whether it's Ten Commandments or 10 Commandments, etc. If I sort titles the "normal" way, these titles would be at different places on the shelves. That would be inconvenient for me because I have large shelves that span different rooms. So I ended up taking the UNIFORM approach: treating all numerals as if they were English words. That way, if a title begins with a number, it can only be at one place on the shelves, thus no more confusion. Does anyone here do it like I do?
In a computerized catalog like DVD Profiler, all numbers are sorted before A because that's how computers see them, which can't be changed. But that doesn't affect me because I can search for titles on a computer without knowing how the computer sorts them. |
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