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@realn2s@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#rant and a question

I don't understand why so many books use completely unhelpful headings on each page?

E.g. I'm just reading #bellhooks "the will to change" (which is a good book i can recommend)
On even pages the heading is the title, on our pages the heading is the author.
This is completely helpful and really bad #UX
I know which book I'm reading and usually also the author (and during reading both is actually mostly irrelevant).
I would rather have the section or chapter information on the heading.

Why are these headings so common in books? Is this a convention or has a reason i don't see?

#books

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Andrei Mihailescu
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@AndreiM10@mstdn.plus replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@realn2s Maybe in case you copy a page you liked paricularly, and find the pic later, but couldn't remember from which book?

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@goodenough@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@realn2s my uneducated guess would be it is for when someone makes a copy of some pages of the book, that it still shows from which book the excerpt comes?

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@realn2s@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@goodenough
🙏🏻
That makes sense

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@doncish@norden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@realn2s That is the good ole right page vs left page page layout, typical for print publications where readers typically see both pages at the same time.

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@realn2s@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@doncish
I understand that you put different information on even and odd pages. I didn't get the coffee off information (author& title)

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@doncish@norden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@realn2s

In general, the decision as to which publication metadata to include in the header/footer or book pages is an editorial one, usually made by the publishing company depending on the publication type and genre. I've seen all sorts of different variants, chapter title, author name, publication name...

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