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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
Allowing people to reference to specific portions of a book is only one purpose of page numbers. Outside of textbooks and manuals and the like, I do not share your view that that is the primary purpose of page numbers.
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I didn't say it was the primary purpose of page numbers - indeed, I'm quite certain it's not. I said that it was (probably) the primary reason that
locations are so finely divided, and that page numbers are not a substitute for locations for that very reason.
The original purpose of page numbers was simply to allow the printer to assemble the book with the pages in the correct order.