stackyFACTSBecause aesthetics were apparently more important than actually finding what you wanted to read. Early collections grouped books strictly by height to make the shelves look perfectly uniform. If you wanted a specific topic, you just had to guess if it was printed in a tall or short format.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
History →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept a profoundly dark personal memento locked inside her writing desk. What was it?
Discover more
Giving your pet credit is taking modesty entirely too far. The German romantic author genuinely published a book framing his heavily opinionated, highly…
Discover more
The ultimate form of impulsive self-sabotage. Whenever the Italian writer felt mildly depressed about his legacy, he would furiously throw his own unpublished…
Discover more
Grammar police used to have some serious bite to back up their pedantry. In the 17th century, two prominent French writers, Charles-Claude Genest and an…
Discover more
The universe possesses a deeply sick sense of literary irony. Camus, the famous existentialist philosopher, once allegedly remarked that dying in a car crash…
Discover more
Novelist Edgar Allan Poe published a terrifying survival story in 1838 about a shipwrecked crew who brutally cannibalized a young cabin boy named Richard…
Discover more