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While we're on the subject, does anyone know why books don't usually start at page one? Even in the case of a novel, where there's no preface in roman numerals,
by GabrielF00 11y ago
While we're on the subject, does anyone know why books don't usually start at page one? Even in the case of a novel, where there's no preface in roman numerals, the book will often start on page three or four.
- pndmnm 11y agoI've found this to be fairly uncommon, but I usually notice since I eschew bookmarks in favor of remembering what page I'm on. I've never seen it not correspond to the physical number of page sides preceding the first numeral (occasionally not including a flap page against the cover). So the number is "correct", it's just that the preceding pages had no numbers printed.
- svisser 11y agoBooks tend to have blank pages at the beginning and/or end when the actual number of pages isn't a multiple of, say, 8, 16 or 32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page#Print_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page#Print...