: Re: Should all books have page numbers? I am interested in whether there are any compelling reasons why print books should always have page numbers. In particular, I am thinking of books comprising

@Dunderdale623

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Even if you don't intend to index your entries by page number, you'll annoy quite a few people if you omit page numbers.

Librarians, who need to file number of pages,
printers, who need page numbers to assemble the book from sheets,
archivists, who prepare digital copies and need page numbers for these,

...and so on.
Table of contents should always refer page numbers, but you're welcome to take liberties with the index; in particular, make it alphabetic - and you can use both systems:

131: Lion Abbey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
132: Lion Cathedral . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
284: Lipp Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

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