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Yes - and do you mean I went through all of the time and expense of answering the question for free? That's crazy.
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How did the worm get in the book to eat cover to cover? Wormhole? Boom tish!
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If you try a remark like that again I'll tell O.G. on you. Don't think I won't.
What a bunch of castings . . .
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Even I'm not that corny. 
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I don't get it, I definitely need a drawing here.
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OK: Drawing in your mind's eye (illustration on bottom):
Consider how a set of books is put on the shelf. Lowest volume number to the right and in sequential order.
Next imagine your in the process of taking the first volume off the shelf. It's in your hand and the front cover is to your right. So it's not on the outside edge of the volume set. The back cover of book '1' the outside cover.
In fact, for all books (not written in Hebrew or Arabic), when shelved, the left side is the back of the book and the right side is the front.
Now - for the two volume set in the problem, the back of the second book, being on the left, is now touching the front of the first book.
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B F B F
a r a r
c o c o
k n k n
t t
This would still be true, by the way, for books written right-to-left as their order on the shelf would be reversed, too.
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Very good, if the puzzle stipulated that the worm burrowed through both volumes in one straight line.
In your drawing, the worm could very well have started between the two volumes, and burrowed to the left through the first one, then circled back to the right of the second one and burrowed left until the back cover of that one.
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The worm could also have eaten through the bottom, went out, bought a suit, and after being elected to office hired someone to rearrange the books.
Or anything else you care type. Read the problem; whilst it is true that anything that is not excluded from the answer may come into consideration, don't embellish the problem. Also, see Occam's razor[^].
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Aah, yes, the Razor, one of my favourite philosophising tools, but occasionally shelved for playful pickiness. 
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Zero - assuming the books are put on the shelf in order from left to right with the spines outwards. In that case the front cover of part 1 is adjacent to the back cover of part 2, so the worm ate through the front cover of part 1 and the back cover of part 2.
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Was it an African worm or a European one?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What! I don't know that! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
LOL
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Wot if they're on a kindle? (Still fits, 2 books in the kindle on the shelf).
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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It is quite reasonable to not count book covers as pages, although they may be leaves of paper.
The first part has 972 pages, making 486 physical leaves of paper that are pages. The second part has 864 pages, or 432 leaves of paper that are pages.
If we don't assume, as it is not stated in the puzzle, that the worm burrowed in straight line through both parts, it perforated 1836 numbered pages, or 918 leaves of paper.
modified 8-Feb-17 4:13am.
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Even you are right about the confusion between pages and sheets, but that's intentional...
And in your case it led you to the wrong answer... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Only wrong if we set aside Occam's Razor and consider that the worm did not burrow a straight hole through both parts in one go, as there is no such constraint set in the puzzle. 
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Are we also not including other non-numbered pages like the preface, contents, 'This page intentionally left blank' etc?
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: not including cover, but anything else
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It depends on the order of the books on the shelf and also on the language of the book. (Left to right reading order or Right to left reading order)
Either way, there are only 2 possible answers for the four possible scenarios: 0 or the sum of the pages in both books.
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The Lounge is an English site...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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'Old labourer disturbed grain vat but gained nothing' (9)
Quite an easy one I think - good luck!
Andy B
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NAVIGATOR (grain vat o; anag.) but why is a navigator an old labourer?
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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During the industrial revolution in the UK thousands of manual labourers from all over the country (although I believe it was most often Ireland) worked on the canals and railways. They were known as Navigators.
Andy B
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