[bksvol-discuss] Re: Puzzling Problem
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I think those pages you mention that just have things like praise for the
author are just advertising, otherwise known as blurb, and so are not really
part of the book proper. I would say that they can just be eliminated just
as you would eliminate a magazine advertisement for the book by simply not
putting it in in the first place.
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That is something I neglected to mention. In those books I have scanned
with Roman pages, there are usually--I am tempted to say always--more
preliminary
pages than can be accounted for by the roman-numbered pages, whenever the
publisher starts putting them in. If there is praise for the author, or other
stuff like that, the mismatch can be larger than a page or two. Then, that
mismatch is added to if you scan the dust jacket. If deleting an extra title
page, and the blank page before or after it--if the book has those--won't
fix the numbering, then I just leave it. I will not delete anything that
scans
beyond an extra title page and perhaps a blank page, whether it is
considered core content or not.
Evan
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Mayrie ReNae
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Puzzling Problem
Hi Lori,
It isn't exact, but I have experienced what you are talking about. I just
number backward from roman numeral ix and if there are pages before roman
numeral
i, well, then, I just leave them unnumbered.
Often there are pages before what the publisher seemed to consider the
first page of the book containing raves and things like that that they seem not
to
consider pages.
Why do we number the preliminary pages? Because it makes sense, I guess.
And I assume that if the publisher actually numbered a page ix, then it
seems
sensible that said publisher considered, or even did (but they didn't scan)
number the pages before that page with the preceding roman numerals.
This is not a step required by bookshare. Remember that bookshare only
requires that a book have all of its pages, an accurate copyright page and
title
page, and 90% of page breaks, with the 90% of page numbers being in the
works to be required. The rest of what we have written about in our
documentation
for proofreading and scanning are the things that a concensus of quite a
few people consider the best way to create the most readable books possible.
Since bookshare only requires the things I've mentioned above, as Bob says,
I guess the rest are just suggestions.
I do want to say that a lot of experience and conversation did go into
creating the suggestions that we created. And we didn't decide anything just
because
we felt like making more work for ourselves or for other people.
I'm sorry everything isn't exact and set in stone. Or anywhere near
perfect in every single situation.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori Castner
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Puzzling Problem
Hi, Everyone,
I have a very minor puzzling situation in a book I'm proofreading.
In one of the newer documents on what to do as a proofreader, it states
that we are to number preliminary pages with lower case Roman numerals
beginning
with i.
However, in this book I am proofing, the acknowledgments begin on IX (Roman
numeral nine), but there are ten actual pages before the acknowledgments
begin.
One is a blank page which I can remove, but even so there will still be
nine preliminary pages before the first page with a page number, Roman numeral
nine. Do I begin my lower case numerals with zero--is there a Roman
numeral for zero?
And why are we numbering these unnumbered preliminary pages anyway?
Bob, I'm waiting for a humorous answer from you, but also seriously what do
I do when the number of unnumbered pages is greater than the lower case
numerals?
Lori C.
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