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[403]-725 p is what worldcat shows. I think we can change it to 322 pages, but I will wait for someone else to weight in. This field is for entering the number of pages of a book.
I don't know whether changing from 725 to another number is the policy, but if it is, the correct number of pages would be 323, not 322.
Ellie [The Empress] wrote: "[403]-725 p is what worldcat shows. I think we can change it to 322 pages, but I will wait for someone else to weight in. This field is for entering the number of pages of a book."
Hey Ellie,
Yeah I thought that might be the 'official' count as that is what the pages of the book show - just it doesn't really work our for the percentages read! I figured it wouldn't hurt to raise the issue as worst case is you guys say it is another thing we have to learn to live with.
Hopefully some other librarians will weigh in on the issue and some sort of consensus can be formed.
What exactly is going on for the first four hundred pages? :O
Thalia wrote: "What exactly is going on for the first four hundred pages? :O"They cover Fellowship of the Ring,and I have just checked Return of the King and the page count there starts where this books ends.
lafon حمزة wrote: "Multi-volume work with continuity issues, huh?
According to rivka keep the numbering as-is."
Ah, that sucks ... I was kind of hoping there might be a way around it but hey ho, another thing to just accept.
I appreciate you chaps having a look into it.
Yeah, limitation of the system. I have the same problem with a later LotR re-print I own. If it helps, keep in mind that the Ring is actually one book in three parts. ;)
lafon حمزة wrote: "Yeah, limitation of the system. I have the same problem with a later LotR re-print I own. If it helps, keep in mind that the Ring is actually one book in three parts. ;)"Haha, it does a bit. I just really like the percentages on the main page of the site to be right! Still considering I have read over 50% of this book in about 5 minutes it should only take me a few days to finish the series up and then hopefully I won't encounter this again!
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rivka wrote: "I'm not a fan of the current solution, but everything else we have considered is unworkable -- or is worse than the current solution."I can appreciate that - it is like the work around for re-reads, it isn't great but at least there is a solution of sorts there.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38...
This is the exact edition of Two Towers that I am reading. The book starts on page 403 and ends on page 725. The page count for this volume on GR is 725 which is right in terms of the page numbering but there aren't actually that many pages as it continues on from Fellowship.
The only reason I am bringing this up is that when I update my status on it to say page 418 I have really only read 16 pages but the status update puts me at 58%.
Now on previous requests regarding page count it seems that 'blank pages' are counted (so if the book is 500 pages long but has 4 blank pages without page numbers on them I have seen the page count on here being put as 504), so is it possible that this edition could be amended to show the 'actual' number of pages (323 by my reckoning) or are you forced to take the 'written' number of pages as what it is set as?