[Sigia-l] Page numbers in a book (fw)

Christopher Fahey [askrom] askROM at graphpaper.com
Mon Jul 29 00:37:14 EDT 2002


> 75 years, even in slow times, is a pretty long time. I'm 
> wondering *why* it would take that long 

Another reason: Today we use page numbers to tell other people where to
look for something in a book. Hand-copied manuscripts of the same book
were unlikely to have the same pagination. I can imagine it taking 75
years for the usefulness of page numbers became understood by readers
and scholars.

An another: A great deal of what is printed, then and now, are
broadsides, handbills, posters, and tracts - for which page numbers are
barely applicable.

-Cf

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