Hey DarkWaters. So, I don't know how I missed a posting of yours previously, but sorry for not responding to it before. I kinda feel like a dick now. So to FINALLY respond to this...
Hey A438980....We need to get you a more user friendly name
I looked at changing my name on here, but I couldn't really figure out how to do that exactly, but you can just call me "Sorrin" if it's easier.
I also got rid of the blank pages before the Introduction, so if you count the first page of the contents with an imaginary page 1, then the Intro ends up on page 4 as it should. I also agree with you on having the Chapter be it's own page, so I went ahead and updated that too. I exported the inDesign pages as spreads to hopefully give a better sense of page flow.
I'm fine with dropping the blank pages if you want, but the images of the actual prop do seem to have a blank page right before the half-title (which looks like it's right after the front endsheet) and on the page before the table of contents although both of those blank pages do seem to have handwritten notes and/or scribbles...
Mostly I just put some of the blank pages and additional information in for fun, to make sure the later page orientation would be correct (left or right depending on screenshots), and to coincide with my own textbooks I used for layout reference.
So this is where we need to make a decision. Now we need to keep in mind that the Book prop is really only a handful of pages that repeat through the entire book. We might see pages out of order of what their page number actually says. With that in mind, I feel like the Contents is the road map we should probably follow and maybe only mimic what the movie shows us if it syncs up with the Contents page. So page 16 is supposed to have "The Use of Shrinking Potion". “The Right Use of the Ingredients” is listed as being on page 12 and “Different Methods of Potion Preparation” isn't technically in the first chapter unless we want that one to be "Different Methods of Preparation" page 21, which might be the same anyways. Just not consistent naming.
I definitely agree that the contents page should be the roadmap for the book, which from what I can tell only really affects the location of the "Different Methods of Preparation" & "The Right Use of the Ingredients" sections.
I noticed that the section titles in the Contents listing sometimes slightly differ from what's on the actual page, although that has meant just dropping the word "The" in the potion recipe sections, so I'm sure "Different Methods of Preparation" & “Different Methods of Potion Preparation” is the same thing.
Also, adding in the other recipes you've listed may cause quite a shift in pages as recipes tend to be a two page spread and the sections you're thinking of putting them in are supposed to be about two pages. I know they're supposed to be in the APM book according to the Books, but maybe we should try to stick to purely the Movie "universe" for this. However, I do like the idea of putting Golpalott’s Third Law in "Antidotes", I feel that will work out great.
I understand your trepidation about adding these recipes, but there are plenty of sections in the book that are multiple pages long that we could slip the recipes into and, just because the recipes we can see are two pages long doesn't mean they ALL have to be the same length. For example, considering how difficult the "Felix Felicis" potion must be to make since it was such a highly-desired reward in the book/movie I kinda think it should be an additional page or two long with directions that would be difficult to follow.
Unfortunately I don't have access to any Adobe products for putting the book together and have to rely on Microsoft Word & Paint to work on this, so I hope you don't mind us relying on you for piecing this all together.