Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Easier said than done, unfortunately. Amazon almost never supplies the correct number. And even if a librarian corrects the number for a book they've read, it's only for that edition since different editions often have different page numbers. I always correct pages numbers for books I've read, but for the whole of GR, it's a never-ending task.

My question on this topic is what is the correct page number to be used?

Is it just the number of pages in the main portion of the book (think non-fiction)?

OR

Does it include all the ancillary pages including notes, index, bibliography, etc.?

I would think from Amazon's and a publisher perspective that it would be the total number of physical pages. However, from a Goodreads Progress Bar perspective I think it should be the main body of work as the notes, index, and bibliography are supplemental and may be referred to at any point. Including them would give a false impression on the progress bar by under representing your true place in the book.

In fact, if you are on page 475 of a 500 page book (body) the progress bar should show 95% complete in my opinion. If all the ancillary data is included you could easily have another 100 pages or more. In this case you are only 80% complete when in reality; there are only 25 pages to go in the body of the work. This results in some books never showing more than, say 85% complete, even when the reader is nearly finished.

I'm hoping to establish a standard operating procedure for this to which we would all conform.

Hmm. I can see your argument, but I don't want to leave the appendices out of the page count -- they do exist and are significant, most of the time!

I agree, include the appendices. The readers will know why their percentage seem low.

Grumpus, As someone who reads all the pages, perhaps I'm not the one to answer, but I count all the pages! If people read only the body and not the end pages, once they mark their book as read it will count as 100% read anyway.

I agree: count all the pages.

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