Do you count picture pages in the page number count?
Imagine chapter 1 is 12 pages of text. You start at page 1 on the right side with a blank left page 0, as usual.
Chapter 2 starts on page 13 and would normally be on the right side right next to the end page of chapter 1 (page 12).
But say you have an entire page dedicated to an image between the end of chapter 1 and the start of chapter 2. Not an image in the text, but a picture page that exists outside of the world of the book. More specifically, it's an artist's full-page rendering of a scene from the previous chapter.
Do you put the picture on what would be page 13 and start chapter 2 on page 14? If yes, do you call it page 14 or still call it page 13?
Or do you add a blank page between the image and start of chapter 2 so that it remains as page 13 and on the right side page?
I don't have any books with full page pictures to reference, so any help would be appreciated.
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Yes, You count every page from beginning to end. If the picture on page 13 goes with chapter 1 then start chapter 2 on page 14. If you clearly headline each chapter you don't need to leave a blank page between the two.
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I've always counted the picture pages, Terrence Sellers. Headlining the chapters helps as Bill suggested.
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Bill Albert Ultimately, this is what we went with. As I do headline the chapters, it was very easy to implement counting the pictures as pages in the standard counting.