On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, David H. Adler wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:05PM +0000, David Hodgkinson wrote:
> > Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 
> > > er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question?
> > 
> > Insane filing system
> 
> They (used to, at least) file their Science Fiction (and some other
> sections) by publisher rather than author or even title.  Good luck
> finding a book if you don't know the publisher...
> 
The computing section is somewhat more sane these days.

And anyway, computing by publisher is getting a lot better. You just
browse O'Reilly, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall.

<Thinks>
If they were to sort by Publisher, shouldn't they subsort by ISBN?
</Thinks>

Thinking can definitely damage your health :(

Regards

Kieran

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