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It was discussed as a book about alphabetical order, and how it wasn't always used to organize information, and the author expressed a strong dislike for Melville Dewey.
That's Judith Flanders, author of A Place for Everything, a book about the order of the Latin alphabet.
— Episode: Alphabetical Order
Episode: Alphabetical Order
It was discussed as a book about alphabetical order, and how it wasn't always used to organize information, and the author expressed a strong dislike for Melville Dewey.
That's Judith Flanders, author of A Place for Everything, a book about the order of the Latin alphabet.
And Judith Flanders says that this means in most cases, alphabetical order would have been kind of useless.
But Judith Flanders points to one potential reason, at least for those who knew their ABCs.
It is the hideous Melville Dewey.
So, basically, Melville Dewey was born in a small town in upstate New York in 1851.