>>>>Wouldn't the bug be dead if he started between the cover and the first page?
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>>>Well, this would make it difficult for the bug. As with many other problems, you are supposed to ignore this "slight practical difficulty"...
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>>Yeah, I thought as much.
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>>Dots are pages and line are covers:
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>>3 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 3 = 13, but that seems to easy. Why would someone believe the answer was 7? I must be missing something...
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>>Renoir
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>Ohhhhh! On a bookshelf the books are reversed! To my credit, and this is really reaching for some fragment of credibility, I didn't need to actually look at real books, but I did imagine them in a real situation... Doh!
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>I am greatly humbled... :-)
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>Renoir

No they are NOT reversed - go & look at a real set of encyclopaedias, Page 1 of Vol.1 will be closest to the last page of Vol2. At least my sets normally start with Vol1 to the left.