The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Stephen Frug:

For a couple years after college I had my books in *strict* chronological order, i.e. not by author or anything, just date, so that all the 1954 books (e.g.) were together regardless of who wrote them. While it created some fun juxtapositions (I recall Les liaisons dangereuses (1782) right next to Critique of Pure Reason (1781)), it was on the whole rather impractical. Also, no solution to collections/anthologies was satisfying.

So then I had strict alphabetical by author -- no categories, nonfiction & fiction mixed -- for a while. Not as much fun, and while more practical, it was not fun enough to make up for the degree to which it still wasn't very practical.

If I had the time energy & patience I'd try chronological again...

The many ways that this could happen are left as an exercise for Making Light’s commentariat.

Not an exercise: this weekend I was searching for books on Amazon, and typing in the name of a historian brought up a porn video as result #2 -- presumably someone of the same name (or two people, one sharing the first name, one the last) worked on the video. (I searched for a number of different historians' works this weekend, and I'm no longer sure which name brought up the video, but IMS it was "Alan Lawson".) I don't know if the timing of this result was incidental, or if this weekend's events were related.

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