A deliberately blank page or blank page (from Latin:
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Uses for pages deliberately emptied
A deliberate blank page is usually the result of conventions and printing techniques. Conventional chapters begin on odd-numbered pages (random pages); Therefore, if the previous chapter happened to have an odd number of pages, a blank page was inserted at the end. The book pages are often printed on large sheets due to technical and financial considerations. Thus, a group of 8, 16, or 32 consecutive pages will be printed on one sheet in such a way that when the sheet is folded and cut mechanically, the pages will be in the correct order for binding. This is called even working, and the page group is called part or signature . Books printed in this way will always have a number of pages that are multiples of numbers in such signatures, such as multiple of 8, 16, or 32. As a result, these books will usually have blank pages, unless by chance or editorial ingenuity the number of pages which is exactly printed.
For example, if a book with 318 pages of content is printed using a 32 page signature, it will require 10 signatures, 320 pages in total. At the very end of the book - that is, at the end of the last signature - there will be 2 unused pages (empty).
If the document processor of the printer has been designed to pass through a blank page, a notice may also be required on a page deliberately emptied to prevent the wrong page numbering.
Pages that are completely empty are everywhere in the technical manuals and instructions, directories, and other mass-produced massive texts. Manual contents generated by certain product vendors are often compiled from generic instructions suitable for different products, with additional instructions or chapters included for the particular product or model in question. This manual generation automation leads to pages that are purposely empty to match the requirements for bulk printing.
In digital documents, pages are deliberately emptied so that documents can be printed correctly in two-sided format, rather than having a new chapter starting at the back of the page. Pages that are purposely empty have also been used in documents distributed in ring binders. The goal is to leave room for expansion without violating the page numbering of documents. This allows updates to be made on the document while requiring minimal new pages, reducing printing costs. The only drawback is the increase in the time it takes for the reader to manually enter new pages that are updated to the correct location in the document.
Standard test
Accidental blank pages can be useful in standardized tests such as GCSE, High School Certificate, SAT, CAT, ACT, MCAT, and GRE. In these exams, there are often individual and timed parts where test takers are prohibited from proceeding to the next section until the time interval of the passage has passed and the examiner allows them to continue. Since all these separate sections are printed in sequence in the check book, it is possible for the test taker who has completed the initial section to look through the page and read the problem in the next section. By placing a deliberate blank page between these sections, test takers are prevented from cheating in this way. By printing notices on the page, such as "this page has been deliberately emptied", test takers will not worry that their tests have been misprinted, especially since the test instructions often instruct the student to check missing or empty pages and report any damaged test book to the supervisor. These pages can also be useful as scratch paper.
Sheet music
In sheet music books, relatively short pieces of music covering two to four pages often need to be set so that the number of pages changed for players is minimized. For example, a three-page job (starting from the left-hand sheet) followed immediately by a two-page job involving one page change during each job. If a blank page immediately follows a three-page job (on the right-hand sheet), a two-page job will reach the left and right pages, reducing the need for page turn over during the second job. Accidentally deleted pages can also prevent pages from changing during a difficult section.
Secret document
In the US armed forces, confidential documents require page checks each time a prisoner is transferred or an inventory is made. Blank pages are all marked "This page is intentionally emptied", so the page checks are not ambiguous, and every page of the document is accounted for.
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Variations
The blank pages placed at the end of the book are often used to balance the folio that makes up the book (see bookbinding). Often these pages are completely blank without such statements or are used as "Notes" pages, serving a practical purpose. In the case of phone number directories, these pages are often used to include important numbers and addresses. These pages can register other books available from the same publisher.
Book publishers also use styled designs (dingbats) under the last paragraph of the chapter to show that no other content is expected until the next chapter, allowing for the possibility of blank pages without misunderstanding by the reader.
There are also published books, as new things, contain nothing but empty pages.
Example
- Andy Griffiths book Just Stupid! starts with a snail cartoon told to readers, "This page will be empty if I'm not here telling you that this page will be empty if I'm not here telling you that..." on an endless loop.
- The Don Novello Humorist book of 1977 The Lazlo Letters ends with some other blank pages marked "FREE PAPER!".
- The Demetri Martin book This Is A Book contains an empty page that says, "This page was accidentally left blank."
- The novelist writer Iran Reza Amirkhani Man-e-oo (His Ego) has one whole chapter from the empty page.
- The phrase is a recurring joke in Infocom's text adventure game. In their first title, Zork 1 , checking the carved wooden door to produce the text: "Carving translated to 'This space is deliberately emptied'."
- The Idries Shah Book Book Book contains 10 pages explaining why the following pages are important, and then a large number of empty pages. Its main purpose is to demonstrate the theory that you should not rate content with its containers.
Also see
- Bookbinding
- Cancel
- Endpaper
- The Leiden Convention
- Octavo
- Publishing
- References yourself
Reference
External links
- The Project This Page Deliberately Left Empty
- Everything2 discussion about phrases
- "This page is intentionally emptied" phrase translated to more than 60 languages. (Via Internet Archive.)
- Guides for writing pages that were intentionally left blank in XSL-FO
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