Hi Sue! Interesting!Kindle books have pages that can be stepped through in the Kindle app or reader.
Debby At 02:32 AM 2/24/2012, Sue Stevens wrote
In some PQ books, I have typed a page number into the search box, and when I do this, it does go to the page, even though there are no numbers or page breaks.Sue S. -----Original Message----- From: Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:56 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bksvol-discuss [pq books and page numbers] I don't think those publisher quality books that match their ISBNs with Good Reads are intended to be just ebooks though. They are electronic files and we Booksharians use them as ebooks, but they are intended to be transmitted to the printing press and it is known how many pages there will be. They are still electronic files, though, and will not have page breaks. I think it is those page breaks that the Daisy books count as pages. On 2/23/2012 11:23 PM, Ali Al-Hajamy wrote:I don't know if that's always the case, though. When I am on Goodreads and I look up the ISBN of the Bookshare edition of whatever book I'm reading, the number of pages in the book match up, more or less, with the number of pages listed on Goodreads. Sometimes books have no pages at all and come in one long file, but most of the time these days, PQ books have pages with numbers. So the pages are definitely there, but I think her question refers to the fact that the Bookshare site doesn't recognize how many pages are in PQ books, even when they exist in the book, and appear the same way as in books submitted by volunteers. It seems as if small changes would need to occur on the site, and that the publishers have nothing to worry about. On 2/23/12, Roger Loran Bailey<rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:PQ books do not have page numbers because they do not come in pages. They are electronic files. Each one is just one long electronic file that when it is sent to the printer will be broken into pages as the book is printed. The discussion of that problem has come up here before and I think the conclusion is this. The publishers do not get a lot out of donating their books in the first place. About the most they get out of it is some public relations points. If too many restrictions were put on them it is likely that they would just stop donating books. The lack of page numbers is pretty minor even if it is an inconvenience, but it is something that we need to put up with. As one long file, though, it is similar to the book being printed on one long roll of paper without it being cut into pages. When that roll is cut then you will have pages and it is the printing press that determines where the cuts will be made. On 2/23/2012 9:09 PM, Ixchel, Jackie (M.E) wrote:Hi all, I was wondering (and I'm sorry if someone already brought this up) if anyone else wonders/gets kind of annoyed or knows why PQ books don't have page numbers in the book summary page. I don't know if this is just me but I like to know how many pages a book has for my own keeping and I've noticed PQ books don't have this. For example, Hex Hall has no page numbers in the text of it and it doesn't say in the summary. I am just curious. I also wonder if anything can be done for page numbers to appear in the summary page at least. Regards, JackieTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4827 - Release Date: 02/23/12 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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