Talk:Pagination Blues

Although I have yet to see the American Penguin paperback of Against the Day-- one is on the way to me--I have learned that it consists of 1104 pages, about 19 numbered pages more than the hardcover. First, depending on how the numbering is done--more non-text pages might have been counted--the actual difference between the two editions could be even less.
Pagination is determined by type size, font and page set-up as well as the height and width size of the book. Given those choices, the pagination of the book becomes mathematical.
The paperback size of Against the Day SEEMS to be a very close match to the hardcover--8.5 x 5.5 vs 9.4 x 6.2--with the hanging hardcover trim removed. (Had Against the Day been smaller in height, this might not have been the case)
Anyway, the worst case for matching the American paperback pagination with the hardcover seems to be around one extra page correlation needed around every 55. Therefore, around 2 per hundred pages.
A-And, so, so many pages have entries--do all of them?---that readers and posters using the American paperback should be able to easily locate the page on which they want to post by a moment's check for other words and phrases already posted.
A-A-And, There are still a lot of Penguin hardcovers available and Penguin is offering them new at just $3.25 over the paperback price as I write. (And, although I do not believe in buying 'used' books for authors I would like to get whatever not-usually-enough royalties they deserve, there are many 'used' hardcover AtDs available very cheap.
[Buy new, for Jackson, is my motto] MKOHUT 16:46, 7 October 2007 (PDT)