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Or to quote from a book I own:

This page is accidentally left blank

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Just once I want one of those to say what it really means.

Please don’t return this book, it hurts our numbers. We just had an extra page ¯\(ツ)

I always thought that is funny, but I think they do that to ensure blank pages aren’t skipped by the printer.

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Probably helps protect the pages before being bound too (at least historically)

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That would be

This page is intentionally left blank

Theirs is a little different…

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Maybe to avoid all the page numbering after that being shifted?

Maybe a play on “This page intentionally left blank” from the IBM manuals

This is in no way unique to IBM manuals.

The phrase is present in loads of books and in some cases has been for quite a few years.

https://meh.com/forum/topics/nothing-is-lacking-the-long-history-of-intentionally-blank-pages

https://www.google.com/search?q="this+page+intentionally+left+blank&udm=36

That would make sense. It’s a playful book with many jokes in it

It’s the very first page and the second one is page 2

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So then it would affect literally all the pages in the book, if it were removed!?!:-P

Well, it’s not uncommon to leave the first page blank or with some generic stuff. Someone else already pointed out that it might be an inside joke

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