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Wrong number of pages for Nagel and Newman's Godel's Proof
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Mar 30, 2015 11:02PM
The entry for this book says 228 pages. It should be 128 pages (x + 118).
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ISBN please? Also, pages in Roman numerals aren't included in the total on GR.
0814703259. This is the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...I thought that linking to the book in the field provided made typing the ISBN redundant.
As for pages, the manual says, "The number of pages in a book is meant to include all content except for advertisements and preview chapters for other books. Included end material may include acknowledgments, afterwords, appendices, bibliographies, glossaries, indexes, notes, and suggested discussion questions.
Introductory material paged using roman numerals is not included in the total page count."
Acknowledgements are counted if they are at the end of the book, but not the beginning. Indices are included, but not tables of contents. Some books, such as many volumes of the Arden Shakespeare, have more roman-numeraled pages than regular pages.
Hey, I didn't make the rules :-)If you link to the book in the field it always picks the default edition in my experience, so that does not always give the correct ISBN.
I changed the page count to 118, Worldcat agrees.
lethe wrote: "Hey, I didn't make the rules :-)Even if you did make them, they're probably too well entrenched to be changed at this point, anyway. I was basically venting.
If you link to the book in the field it always picks the default edition in my experience, so that does not always give the correct ISBN.
Hmmm. It showed the correct edition to me, so I assumed it showed the same to everyone.
I changed the page count..."
Thanks.
