[bksvol-discuss] Re: bksvol-discuss [pq books and page numbers]
- From: Ali Al-Hajamy <aalhajamy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:23:44 -0500
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,
>> Jackie
>>
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