Ravenswood Used Books, a cramped and crowded shop in this racially divided city, has been discovered shelving books according to color. The most casual inspection of this store's shelves reveals a clear and deliberate effort to organize inventory by each book's color. When interviewed for this report, store manager Jessica admitted that such a formula made it easier for her to remember where titles could be found, although, she said, browsers constantly undid her carefully considered order, leaving behind a mess of clashing hues and titles in no order whatsoever, the store having long ago determined that alphabetizing books is for highly paid librarians and law clerks.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
IN THE NEWS!! CHICAGO BOOKSTORE EXPOSED AS COLOR-CONSCIOUS. March, 2012.
Ravenswood Used Books, a cramped and crowded shop in this racially divided city, has been discovered shelving books according to color. The most casual inspection of this store's shelves reveals a clear and deliberate effort to organize inventory by each book's color. When interviewed for this report, store manager Jessica admitted that such a formula made it easier for her to remember where titles could be found, although, she said, browsers constantly undid her carefully considered order, leaving behind a mess of clashing hues and titles in no order whatsoever, the store having long ago determined that alphabetizing books is for highly paid librarians and law clerks.
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you mean THE HELP is color conscious?! i seem to remember it being a particularly yella individual itself. no shocker there.
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