Is there any reason why some books don’t have page numbers? I need to cite them in a paper but there is no way to give a page numbers…so just wondering why.
Publishers frequently do not include page numbers in electronic resource files. This is a common problem that is not restricted to Logos. In Logos, this is particularly prevalent among Ebook editions.
Yep. The problem seems to be on the publisher's end, not Logos.
I do wish Logos would put on the product page an indicator whether or not the book has page numbers. If I was reading a fiction book, I wouldn't care. And if it was simply a Christian living type book it might be a small annoyance but I could live with it, but sometimes there's academic books that have no page numbers, and that really diminishes the value of those if you were planning on using them for academic research.
I think specifically of the 3 (hopefully 4 soon) volume set on The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World.
https://www.logos.com/product/65494/beware-the-evil-eye-volume-1-the-evil-eye-in-the-bible-and-the-ancient-world-introduction-mesopotamia-and-egypt
They did mention in another thread that they were now planning on doing the 4th volume, as well as making these into Research editions. As of now, these have no page numbers.
Sometimes I think the issue is that you get people along the chain somewhere who aren't really readers, at least not academically, and so something that to us seems like very important and a no-brainer, to them it didn't even cross their mind. And hence someone at the publisher sends the file with just the text, no page numbers, because it never occurred to them why someone would care about page numbers for a digital book. That's my guess.
I think it has a lot to do with the fact that page numbers are no longer properly located for digital resources, because screen size and font differences lead to page numbers being pushed all over the place. For someone who doesn't care about the need to reference the original work, page numbers may thus seem meaningless.
I think you are right about this. I prefer page numbers. It is a useful. It helps me read a book better to have some comprehension as to where I am along the way. I’ve read that lack of page numbers is one of the things that makes digital documents harder to read.
Related but indirectly. I'm reading in Kindle, and it references a page in a Logos book. I switch over to mobile Verbum; pull up the book. I go to type in the page.
No can do. Chapters only, even with page numbers displayed. And guessing positioning, as I scroll-scroll.
FL is a bit too enthused over no page numbers, even when there are page numbers.
