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  • adjective Having no page numbers.

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  • adjective Without page numbers.
  • adjective computing Not subject to paging.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ paged

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Examples

  • And I like original cataloging, I do, but when you come across the 17th book that simply has no copy of any kind, with no discernible author, published in a city I've never heard of in India, and it's the cheapest paper around, and maybe is unpaged....ughhhh.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Scribe 2008

  • Juann Wart, 1652: small square 8vo of pp. 102, including 3 preliminary pp. and at end an unpaged leaf with 4 sonnets, almost

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And I like original cataloging, I do, but when you come across the 17th book that simply has no copy of any kind, with no discernible author, published in a city I've never heard of in India, and it's the cheapest paper around, and maybe is unpaged....ughhhh.

    I've been cataloging.... Scribe 2008

  • Pomegranate Artbooks/a Chameleon book, unpaged pp.,

    Hopper's Polluted Silence Updike, John 1995

  • The number of pages is to be indicated by giving the last number of each paging, connecting the numbers by the sign +; the addition of unpaged matter may be shown by a +, or the number of pages ascertained by counting may be given in brackets.

    A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

  • F.B. also manufactures BLANK BOOKS of every description paged and unpaged, Memorandum Books, Quarto Blanks, &c., &c. PAPER HANGINGS,

    The Fox and the Geese; and The Wonderful History of Henny-Penny Anonymous

  • He describes the last as "an unpaged 8vo. of 66 pages, including eight pages of most grotesque illustrations."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • He describes the last as "an unpaged 8vo. of 66 pages, including eight pages of most grotesque illustrations."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • All unpaged books should be paged through in pencil before they are taken apart; this is best done with a very fine pencil, at the bottom left-hand corner; it will only be necessary to number the front of each leaf.

    Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

  • One mark of carelessness on the part of the compositor or corrector of the press, which is common to all copies, is that 'Troilus and Cressida,' though in the body of the book it opens the section of tragedies, is not mentioned at all in the table of contents, and the play is unpaged except on its second and third pages, which bear the numbers 79 and 80.

    A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

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