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The Sorted Books Project
by Chris Higgins - June 20, 2007 - 5:01 AM

Artist Nina Katchadourian creates narratives by arranging books on shelves. The results are amusing and improbable, and had me standing in front of my “to-read” shelf trying to make my own version. Here’s an example image:

Sorted Books by Nina Katchadourian - Sample

View the whole collection (be sure to click on each book image to get more from that series).

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  1. I like to play the same game with thread titles on forums.
    Here’s one from today:

    Kids on Chicken Pox Watch at Party
    Do you pray before you eat?
    Why can I buy a gun and not a TASER?

    posted by GoingLikeSixty on 6-20-2007 at 7:36 am

  2. What a great site! I’m going to have to rearrange my book shelf immediately.

    posted by Mangesh on 6-20-2007 at 9:14 am

  3. Where’s the link to the site?

    posted by Tru on 6-20-2007 at 10:37 am

  4. Link to the site is ‘view the whole collection.’ For convenience I also added the same link on ‘arranging books on shelves.’

    posted by Higgins on 6-20-2007 at 12:25 pm

  5. An online comic, xkcd, had something like this as the subject but it was with Google searches. Seen altogether they give interesting insight to the paranoid mind of people afraid of velociraptors. He titled it “Search History,” if you decide to look it up. My favorite is still Fourier, but Hamsterball is a close second. He does swear sometimes, just to give you a head’s up. The warning at the bottom of his page sums it up pretty well.

    posted by Larissa on 6-20-2007 at 1:55 pm

  6. Larissa: Though I can’t help but commend you for reccommending XKCD, I think the search history was just that — the search history.

    posted by William on 6-20-2007 at 9:10 pm

  7. My bookcase holds in juxtiposition “How to Make Love to a Man”‘ How to Make Love to a Woman”, “How to Make Love to Each Other”, and “How to Read a Book”.

    posted by Mary on 6-21-2007 at 7:54 am

  8. Tee hee —— my best friend and I have been doing that for years whenever we see a “best-seller list” posted anywhere. Things can get really wild when the list includes a lot of trashy romances.

    Another great source of juxtapositions was the covers of old church anthem octavos, which used to list a few dozen best-selling titles instead of the current cheap artwork. Some wild and crazy theology could - and did - come out of those during my younger years in the choir!

    posted by anomalous4 on 6-22-2007 at 11:36 pm

  9. I used to do this with the show titles from the TVGuide channel as they scrolled by, reading the lines from left to right. Try it sometime! You might end up with something you’d really like to see, like America’s Funniest Cops, or Will & Friends, or Everybody Loves Seinfeld.

    posted by anna on 6-28-2007 at 6:38 am

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