Dear Jill: The page numbers are important especially for validation purposes. Most of the time I don't read the books I validate so the page numbers are important to ensure that there are no missing pages. Besides if you were reading a print copy, the page numbers would be available to you should you choose to read them. Although I am not positive about this, I believe that bookshare's stripper takes out the page numbers when the book is converted to dasy. Just my 2 cent's worth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:17 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: validation pagination question > Will someone please explain to me why every page needs to be numbered unless > it is a textbook or some other kind of reference book. I am a braille reader > and NLS only shows the numbers of odd pages; if I were listening I wouldn't > want to be hearing all those numbers and again, NLS doesn't have them read > on their talking books. Jill > > >