pagination• Although pagination has been excluded, the novel is nevertheless bound in a fixed order.• Yorick had eschewed such simple guidelines as dates and pagination.• Some systems still rely on a batch pagination method while others, like Interleaf, do the whole thing on the fly.• Our printing forefathers were notoriously careless about their pagination.• Thus Experience has an undulating, open-ended form, something like a notebook whose pagination has been erased.