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message 1: by Ingrid (new) - rated it 1 star

Mar 01, 2013 02:31PM

This version of Jellicoe Road appears to have the wrong number of pages. I have the nook version (ebook) and it has 230 pages.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78...

The publisher is listed as HarperCollins ebooks: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Je...

They have it listed as 0 pages which doesn't help matters

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message 2: by Emy (new)

Mar 01, 2013 03:15PM

eBooks vary in the number of pages depending on the device you use. The 0 from HC indicates that it is formatted as a continuous text file.

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message 3: by Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) (last edited Mar 01, 2013 04:47PM) (new)

Mar 01, 2013 04:42PM

Nook device ebook pages are unique to nook device. An indication that you aren't reading "real" book pages is if changing the font/type changes the number of pages. (As Emy said, a "continuous text file" changing length/pages as font changes.)

Goodreads uses publisher's page numbering for ebooks when available.

(A few nook books are formatted with "real" page numbers, if they are, the product page will say so. I've yet to see one for Harper Collins, which doesn't mean they don't exist. Harper Collins with "0" pages for this one obviously not always good about providing page numbers.)

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message 4: by Ingrid (new) - rated it 1 star

Mar 04, 2013 01:32PM

Thanks for the explanations.

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message 5: by Bücherjunkie (new)

Mar 05, 2013 04:24AM

9783899777727
This book shows the incorrect number of pages. My copy has got 280. Can you correct that? Thank you!

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message 6: by Emy (new)

Mar 05, 2013 04:29AM

Bücherjunkie wrote: "9783899777727
This book shows the incorrect number of pages. My copy has got 280. Can you correct that? Thank you!"

Worldcat gives 277. Have you got the copy in front of you - can you tell us what those last 3 pages comprise?

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message 7: by Bücherjunkie (last edited Mar 05, 2013 04:52AM) (new)

Mar 05, 2013 04:38AM

Emy wrote: "Bücherjunkie wrote: "9783899777727
This book shows the incorrect number of pages. My copy has got 280. Can you correct that? Thank you!"

Worldcat gives 277. Have you got the copy in front of you ..."

Yes I have - the last pages are the Authors note and acknowledgements.

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message 8: by rivka, Former Moderator (new) - added it

Mar 05, 2013 09:08AM