Dewey Decimal isn't the villain everyone says it is, and it took me 3 hours at the Toledo library to prove it

Thea Carter · 2026-10-16T06:00:03.785984+00:00

I kept hearing that Dewey is outdated and useless, so I spent 3 hours at the Toledo library cross-checking cookbooks and car repair manuals between Dewey and a bookstore's BISAC system, and Dewey found me more relevant books in fewer steps almost every time, so I'm asking: what's a subject where you truly think Dewey fails worse than the alternatives?

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