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		scotty79 on July 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pd... There's a language-wide order in Germany of direction the of writing on the spines of a books? I just checked my bookshelf and my books go both ways.

anyfoo on July 19, 2021 [–]

Ah. I just checked, and while all the English ones seem to have a consistent orientation, the German ones indeed don't. Never noticed, huh...

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