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Originally Posted by barryem
I've never read the Herriot books and probably won't but I was curious about this so I looked on Amazon and found that each of the books individually is over 450 pages long but the omnibus is only 470 pages. I won't pretend to know what this means but it if I was thinking of reading them that would make me want to study the situation before buying the omnibus.
Barry
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I looked at books 4 and 5 to compare, and used the 'go to' option in the iphone client;
Book 4 has 252 pages and 6096 locations, while the "about" page lists 388 pages.
Book 5 has 343 pages and 5730 locations, and "about" lists 355 pages.
The omnibus of the first 3 books doesn't bring up a "go to" for pages, but has 21121 locations. It lists 64/48/48 chapters for the three books, and all of them are present and accounted for.
I am no expert in ebook formatting, I just read the dang things.
I'm not sure how the locations count is generated, or whether it's a reliable measure of the size of the book. All I can tell you is that it sure looks to me like the entire content of the three books is included.