Where can I add the number of page of a book?

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I’m sure I already edited a book to add a number of page it has. But I can’t find the option to do that again. It is possible ?

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Yes, there are several ways:

  1. On your dashboard, when you click the Update button for a book, you can modify the total number of pages with the pencil icon:

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    (It’s beside that 373.)

  2. When you have the Basic Info menu open, you can also modify it there.

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You can also click the Provide Feedback button on a book’s page if it’s missing a page count and have Brandon add it if you have the number handy; that way people in the future will have it at their fingertips too!

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Where does it pull the page numbers from? I found that they wildly differ for a lot of books I had from Amazon.

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Should be from the Amazon page itself; I don’t know if his automation prefers taking from physical vs. digital or just takes it from the format the link you provide is in (so if you submit a Kindle link, it pulls from the Kindle page).

I have definitely noticed some variation in Amazon page counts between physical and digital of the same book; I typically default to physical in that case. Occasionally I’ll see something way off (e.g. 1 page for a light novel), but usually they’ll only differ a little if I have a personal physical copy to check against.

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Ah I see, makes sense. I was looking at interlude 美しい彼番外編集 | L30 where there’s almost 40 pages difference between digital and physical. I wonder if they calculated something weird or if there is like a bonus chapter missing.

Some bookwalker manga I had also seemed to differ slightly (though it was more like in the range of up to 10 pages) which I guess makes sense if it’s from physical (do Japanese manga have these promotional pages like localized manga do?). I mean manga should have relatively fixed pages right?

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The current pick of the BL book club has ebook only bonus pages.

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Righttt, I even mentioned them for the novel but totally forgot about those in manga :woman_facepalming:. Guess it’s even more wild there with different bonuses sometimes for different publishers.

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Interesting. :thinking: I wonder if the Kindle page count is counting as if the book were in tankobon format and not bunko?

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Some do. Also digital gets sides of the dust jacket cover + the inner covers, and might also have the flaps of the dust jacket or something