i got to page 28 in Marylinne Robinson's
Housekeeping today when it leaped to page 157.
"Oh she's playing some formal games here"
it actually took me another 3 or 4 pages to realise it was their mistake not mine (even though page 157 starts mid sentence and it's facing page, 28, appears to be the end of the first chapter.
my copy runs
page 1-28, page 157-188, page 61-156, page 157-188 duplicated, page 189-218(end)
i don't know if there's a question here but it gave me a bit of a jolt.
"how did that happen?"
...but i suppose, in fact, that the surprising thing is that it doesn't happen more often. books a complicated things and printing houses must be very papery.
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 July 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)
Books are made of folios, often of 32 pages. You got a copy where they slipped in the wrong folio in the wrong place. I've had or seen a few books with feature.
("Folios" might be the wrong term, but it's late and I have a headache.)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 23 July 2005 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)