r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Alextral • 1d ago

I really hate this

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Fantasy and science fiction being cramped in the same section, which is already so small :(

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u/Eastern_Equal_8191 1d ago

It will never change because every inventory and marketing system in the world has had SFF hardcoded as a category since the very moment we figured out how to store data electronically.

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u/Average-Anything-657 1d ago

How does the Dewey Decimal system play into this? Was it just "an inspiration" but not a factor?

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u/todaysanoncct 1d ago

I'm just remembering how my mother labeled all the books in our house by Dewey Decimal.

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u/Doogiesham 22h ago

I don’t know anything else about your mother but man she is/was probably awesome

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u/todaysanoncct 15h ago

She was an original flavor nerd that taught me to play Doom when I was 5. She was, in fact, awesome.