On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Charles Sumner wrote: @> >I also take one Sethra Lavode paperback and put it with the other Brust @> >books so that you could see the front (not just the side) cover. @> >Therefore, someone not looking in the *NEW* sections could see it. @> @> Yeah, I do that too. If there's room on a shelf, I'll often adjust the @> books so that my favorites have their front covers showing instead of the @> spine. I don't feel bad about this though, as the obsessive-compulsive part @> of me will also help the store's staff by re-arranging books that I notice @> are out of alphabetical order. On a couple of occasions I've done things like this. Once, I noticed that Piers Anthony was taking up two and a half shelves, while many other authors (including our Esteemed Mister Brust) were being squeezed unmercifully on the shelves below and immediately to the right (this particular squeezing being accomplished by turning the books sideways and stacking them on top of the visible rows of books, /with the paper side rather than the spine facing the aisle/). This did not take long to rectify, although I suppose some might dispute Man From Mundania's credentials as a romance novel.