[bksvol-discuss] Re: back and front flap question

Dear Cindy, Donna, Gary and Booksharian Friends,

I may be in trouble about the book cover and flap information. I've been 
putting it at the very beginning of the book when I scan and validate because 
when a sighted person is just browsing, looking for a book, they often skim the 
cover before looking further inside the book to decide whether they want to buy 
a book or borrow it from the library. Why would I want to read a pitch or 
summary for a book after I've read it? 

I thought we volunteers had come up with the solution of numbering the cover 
info and other unnumbered pages with roman numerals before putting page one on 
the page that has page one in the book. We put unnumbered pages like the title 
page, the copyright page, the list of other books by the author, blank pages, 
dedications and tables of contents and lists of illustrations or whatever else 
is in the front. Why not the cover material? I number all of those pages with 
roman numerals.

One of the books I'm working on now has 12 pages of material before the book 
starts with page one. My validation has 14 Roman Numeral numbered pages because 
I add 2 extra pages for the front and back cover and front and back flap 
information first. 

I wonder if it would be a good idea to rethink that part of the manual 
instructing us to put the cover last. I mean, putting it last is like a 
physical oxymoron. Does it really mess up the system to put it first if it is 
included in the pre main content page numbering? 

Always with love,

Lissi
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jamie Yates, CPhT 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:16 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: back and front flap question


  Gary is right. The manual does say to put the book cover and book jacket 
material at the end of the scan because of page numbering.

  That doesn't make sense to me but there must be something I don't know about 
the page numbering.


  Jamie in Michigan 
  Currently Reading - But I survived / Tadeusz Sobolewicz 
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