Flyleaves, foldouts and frontispieces – Celebrating overlooked pages

The IndieWeb Carnival topic this month ‘pages’ is fascinating. Unfortunately for me, nearly everything I wanted to say, others have said better: Steve wrote about infiniteness and free-form writing, Nadja wrote about the page as a historic object, JTR digitised the page and Fran brought on the endgame turning her webpage into a palimpsest. I had all but decided not to write anything this month because there was nothing I had to say, until I realised, just this morning, that nobody had talked about one of my favourite pages in a book: the intentionally blank page. By extension then, here is a nod to all those pages that get overlooked (or overly admired, depending on whom you ask) with lovely examples to go with them. This is neither deep nor literary, but I think these examples were worth pausing and admiring. I love the intentionally blank page for reasons I cannot explain. I remember being so fascinated by one the first time I came across it that I stared at it for several minutes.…