On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:47 AM, B.G. Sloan wrote:
> Isn't there already data in a bib record the could let you to do this, i.e., number of pages?
Of course there is already data in a bib record for the number of pages, but the number of pages in a book is ambiguous. Such a thing does a poor job of telling anybody the length of a book. The number of words in a book (or just about any other bibliographic thing) is much less ambiguous.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
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Received on Tue Dec 21 2010 - 14:12:26 EST