I’m currently reading “The Number of the Beast” by Robert Heinlein. Book is from the 1980s, and there’s a completely doubled up paragraph in the book! It spans two pages but the image shows enough I think.

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[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Dunno if this is really what you're going for, but my hardcover copy of Stephen King's It is missing an entire signature. Jumps from page 790 to 823. Cleanly, not ripped or cut out or anything, just smooth gone.

I wrote to the publisher (on paper... probably with a typewriter) and they mailed me a new copy.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a long signature.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is probably a joke, but for those that don't know, in bookbinding a signature is the term for the smaller groupings of pages that are attached to the spine.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/51f1e712-c76a-457a-8076-2125748724b8.jpeg

See how the pages are folded around each other in groups? Those are signatures.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Neat! Thanks for the info.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It was a joke, but I didn't know that, so thank you for the edification.

edit: "That" being the fact offered in response to my comment. I was aware that I was making a joke.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Might be worth something to a collector if you still have it.

[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's me! I'm the collector! It can be worth something to another collector after I'm dead, it's staying on my bookshelf until then (or until AI takes my job and leaves me destitute).