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[–] [email protected] 61 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Or to quote from a book I own:

This page is accidentally left blank

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I always thought that is funny, but I think they do that to ensure blank pages aren’t skipped by the printer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Probably helps protect the pages before being bound too (at least historically)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Just once I want one of those to say what it really means.

Please don't return this book, it hurts our numbers. We just had an extra page ¯\(ツ)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe to avoid all the page numbering after that being shifted?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe a play on "This page intentionally left blank" from the IBM manuals

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

This is in no way unique to IBM manuals.

The phrase is present in loads of books and in some cases has been for quite a few years.

https://meh.com/forum/topics/nothing-is-lacking-the-long-history-of-intentionally-blank-pages

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22this+page+intentionally+left+blank&udm=36

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

That would make sense. It's a playful book with many jokes in it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's the very first page and the second one is page 2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

So then it would affect literally all the pages in the book, if it were removed!?!:-P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Well, it's not uncommon to leave the first page blank or with some generic stuff. Someone else already pointed out that it might be an inside joke