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I saw that this had not been answered yet.Book 6: changed to 233
Book 8: WorldCat has 299, changed to that.
Book 9: changed to 355 (WorldCat has 348)
Book 10: the table of contents, copyright and title should be included according to GR policy, the excerpt excluded. What would the page number of the title be?
Book 11: What would the page number of the last page to be counted be?
Thanks in advance, and sorry about the delay.
Book 10, 978-0-316-24408-4, the excerpt of the next book is 5 pages long, so it would then make it 411 to exclude it. However, after looking closer at the table of contents, for book 10 and 11 the prologue begins on pages XI and XV, respectively, and would therefore include the title page, copyright, and table of contents in those Roman numeral numbered pages. The what I think are called Arabic numbers begin after the prologue and that is how 389 comes to be the last numbered page in Book 10.
Book 11, 978-0-316-24411-4, at WorldCat is listed at 366, which is also the last numbered page in the copy of the book I own.
I hope this helps. Thanks.
Have changed books 10 and 11 to 389 and 366 pages, respectively.Thanks for your help.
Book 6: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons (978-0-316-08532-8) is listed at 272 pages. This includes the first couple pages of the copyright, title, and the excerpt of the next book. This book contains a table of contents that has the page number for the Dragon Profiles and Dragon Dictionary after the epilogue. The epilogue ends on 177. Profiles and Dictionary are not numbered, but would end at page 233.
Book 8: How to Break a Dragon's Heart (978-0-316-17617-0) listed at 272 pages. The last numbered page is 298. The discrepancy here is likely the 26 pages in the middle that do not have numbers on them, but the page count in the book includes them as they are part of the main story. It would basically exclude chapter 13 and 14 of the book to keep it at 272 pages.
Book 9: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword (978-0-316-20570-2) listed at 384 pages. The last page of the epilogue is 349. There is mention of Alvin the Treacherous' fate in the table of contents on page 355. It is not numbered, and sometimes this has been included in the numbered pages in other volumes and sometimes not. So the end of the numbered pages based on table of contents would be 355.
Book 10: How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel (978-0-316-24408-4) is listed at 416 pages. The last numbered page would be 389 and the extra pages in the count are the table of contents, copyright, title, and excerpt of the next book in the series.
Book 11: How to Betray a Dragon's Hero (978-0-316-24411-4) is listed at 416 pages. The book has 366 numbered pages. Once again the excess is from table of contents, copyright, and title pages. There is a prologue and something titled "The Cursed Island of Tomorrow" that take up 19 pages of those excess pages that is not numbered and is listed by Roman numerals in the table of contents.
Thanks in advance for taking a look at this. I hope I am not the only one who is so passionate about page counts on Goodreads...