"When the length of a manuscript has been pretty well calculated, manufacturing makes up a blank-page dummy with which to show the salesmen what the book will more or less look like. This one was made with the precise paper we shall be using, the style of binding and the type of cover. It is, however, thirty-two pages longer than the final product, and therefore just a little thicker. I'm told that when the salesmen heard that it was to be somewhat thinner, they said, 'It won't look like a ten dollar book.' If a dummy such as this comes out too thin, as with a short manuscript, the salesman says, 'Print it on thicker paper. It's got to look like a six dollar book.' But if the final book dares to go over 1,000 pages the same men will yell, 'It's too long. Nobody will pick it up.' Imagine our dismay when my manuscript was estimated to be 1,080 book pages! After cutting and elimination of single words, and also after a much more accurate estimate from printed galleys, it came in at something like 932. Imagine our joy!"