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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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Page Numbering Requests > Wrong (?) pages number?

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Roee | 2177 comments I have the Kindle edition of this book (asin: B00ZP64F28).
At both Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...) and GR (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...) the pages number is 467.
But, the number of pages in the Kindle book itself is 504 for the body of the book. There is also some back material which should not be counted, and TOC and such at the beginning which should.

So, should I fix this for this edition?


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David Raz (davidraz) | 12763 comments For Kindle we go by the publisher (Amazon), so 467 is the correct page number.


Roee | 2177 comments Even though there is a discrepancy between what is written in the site and the book itself? (this book has page numbers internally)


Roee | 2177 comments And moreover, it kind of defeats the purpose of tracking the progress by page numbers.


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David Raz (davidraz) | 12763 comments Yes, page count is reader dependent, so policy is to use whatever Amazon supplies.


Roee | 2177 comments Hello David,
A lot of kindle books have pages count. This count is not affected by the device you're reading the book on, the size of the font, etc.
An example for this is the book I'm currently reading.
It has 508 pages on both my tablet, smartphone and Kindle for PC.


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lethe | 16359 comments For ebooks (including Kindle) we stick to what the publisher says.


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