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Pages - The page count of the publication. For books, the general convention is to use the last printed page number. For magazines, the convention is to use the actual page count - including the cover. For example, early issues of Fantastic Universe had the pages numbered from 1 to 192, not counting the front or back covers. This would be entered as 196 pages. If a publication is not paginated, leave the field blank and put "Not paginated" in the note field.

Some magazines that use a page numbering system that does not start from 1 in every issue. These are usually cases where the magazine has a volume and issue number, and the pagination restarts at 1 for every volume, but not every issue. In these cases, calculate the actual total number of pages, and add in additional page count to represent the covers. Enter this number. You should also make a note in the note field, e.g. "Actual page numbering runs from 193 to 384".
When a book has a section with Roman numeral page numbers for introductory material, followed by Arabic numerals for the main text of the book, enter the page number as e.g. viii+320, where viii is the highest numbered page with a Roman numeral page number. Pages without numbers that fall between the two types of page numbering can be ignored.
Books in dos-à-dos format, such as Ace doubles, have two sets of page numbers, one for each half of the book. This can be entered as "256+320" for example.
It is fairly common for the last page of text in a book to have a different graphic layout which may not include a page number. The "last printed page number" rule would then use a page number before the end of the work. In these cases, count forward to the end of the text and use that as the last page number.