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LogDog75

(856 posts) Fri Aug 8, 2025, 01:28 AM Aug 8

I've never seen this happen before

I checked out a book from our city library this week. It was a new book, released this year, and while reading it pages 188 - 217 were missing. The pages weren't torn or cut out but just missing. After finishing the book, I returned it to the library and told a library employee about it and showed her the pages that were missing. She asked what genre was it and I said it was a mystery. She replied "It is a mystery why the pages are missing "and I replied, tongue-in-check, "Yes, it is a mystery."

Has anyone else checked out a book and found out there were pages missing?

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I've never seen this happen before (Original Post) LogDog75 Aug 8 OP

Yes, I once bought a book that I found was missing the entire last chapter! HeartsCanHope Aug 8 #1

Some poor reader is wondering why their copy only has pages 189 through 216. Orrex Aug 8 #2

I've seen books where an entire section was inserted upside-down, reversing the pagination. eppur_se_muova Aug 8 #3

HeartsCanHope

(1,319 posts)

1. Yes, I once bought a book that I found was missing the entire last chapter!

Reply to LogDog75 (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 01:47 AM

Aug 8

It was a Carole Nelson Douglas mystery. I turned the page to start the last chapter, and it was the first chapter all over again! We were on vacation and I didn't have a receipt for the book so my sweet husband drove me to a mall bookstore and I read the last chapter! I felt it was okay to do that since I had paid for the book. Since the one at the mall had the last chapter, it must have just been the print run that I bought at my local bookstore that had the problem. I did call my local bookstore and tell them when we got home. They offered me another copy, but since I had already read the book I just said I wanted them to prevent someone else from having the same problem. Weird that books missing a chapter happened to both of us while reading a mystery book!

Orrex

(66,035 posts)

2. Some poor reader is wondering why their copy only has pages 189 through 216.

Reply to LogDog75 (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:00 AM

Aug 8

eppur_se_muova

(40,024 posts)

3. I've seen books where an entire section was inserted upside-down, reversing the pagination.

Reply to LogDog75 (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 08:13 AM

Aug 8

Clearly, it fell out during the binding process and a worker hastily re-inserted it, without checking the orientation.

You got a slower-moving bindery worker.

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