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Question: What is the use of the back-pages in all books and text books!?
i'm supposed to write a letter to a publisher asking them to get rid of the back-pages!.
i just wanted to make sure that there wasn't an actual reason they're thereWww@QuestionHome@Com


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I assume you mean the blank pages!. These appear because binding involves groups of pages in multiples of four, eight or sixteen!. Since only some books will come out exactly even, there will be blank pages!. I don't particularly like them either, and tried to eliminate them in my recently published novel, Time for Patriots, but wound up with a couple blanks anyway!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i heard somewhere that the end pages usually fall out first so they put the blank pages there so they would fall out instead of the actual text!.!.!.!. but i think it wastes paper!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well, you can use them to make notes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com