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Digital pages
For each website, under “Front Matter,” we give a count of the “pages” comprised in the website, see for instance in this website.
The term “page” is used to refer to what is displayed on the screen, with the understanding that one should scroll the image if it appears not to fit in the current visible section of the screen. This depends on factors such as the screen resolution or of courde the length of the “page.”
In some cases, a page may be quite long and correposnd in fct to a “chapter” in a book, as in this example for a bibliographical digital book, or in this one for the digital book of an excavation unit.
In other cases, a page my be quite short, as in this archival note or in this description of a stratum.
The average number of pages in the digital books other than those devoted to the excavation units hovers around one hundred.
CM dD 4B UGR A15 LHS 108 124 582 33 101
Complete the chart.
The high number of pages in the excavation unit books (e. g., A15) is due to the number of constituents listed in the right hand side bar, in particular the ceramic sherds –– since each sherd has a single page, or (in the case of body sherds) shares a page with other sherds of the same ware. It is obviously inconceivable to have a printed book of some 25,000 pages, and in this regard the term and concept of a digital “book” must be revised.
But it is precisely in this regard that we open another window onto the intellectually daunting aspect of a digital book conceived as we do here. The quantity of data is indeed outsized; but, and this is the essential aspect of the question, it is conceptually integrated into a major overriding argument, one that is coherent in itself and in turn integrated into a number of parallel arguments built on the interplanar model. The challenge is for us to learn to wrote and to read such websites.
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