The Lowly Page Number Culture
The art and science of numbering pages in printed books. If you want the page number to be conspicuous — in a cookery book, say — put it at the top of the page on the outside edge. If you want the page number to be inconspicuous — as in a novel — put it at the bottom of the page in the centre. If you are leaving fat white margins around the text to increase the size and price of the book, as some publishers do, you should centre the page numbers so as not to draw attention to the margins (1,400 words)
