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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
They do that so that you can read big books much faster  .
Like, if there are 900 more pages after the initial 145 and it took you 10 seconds to read those 145 pages with nothing on them, or to work out that they do not exist at all, then at ones carefully recorded rate of reading the book so far one knows that it will take only 10/145 seconds for each of the remaining pages, so a little over a minute to read the remaining 900 pages.
Of course those who like percentages instead of page numbers will be flying completely blindly into the mists of reader time travel. |
You misunderstood.
He literally put page number 145 on page 1. There was only the title and copyright pages before that. The book was less than 200 actual pages.