Where Everything Is Miscellaneous? Sadly Not.

“Imagine a bookstore with no organization scheme. Thousands of books are simply tossed into huge piles on table tops. Such a bookstore does, in fact, exist: Gould’s Book Arcade in NewTown, Australia.” ~ Information Architecture For The World Wide Web 3rd ed.

I came across the above blurb in my reading today. It was accompanied by the following photo from gordy.com. I thought wow, what a great find! A place where David Weinberger’s principles live. A quick tour of the Gould Book Arcade’s site indicates Seth Gordon, the photographer, caught Gould’s on a bad day back in 2000. Their books seem orderly, shelved and even indexed on abebooks. Shame.