In our songbook indexes here at Mudcat, we often don't include page numbers. My OCR doesn't copy the page numbers when I OCR the table of contents in most books, so I don't bother. As long as we know what book a song is in (and who owns the book), we can go to the book and look at the table of contents for the page number. Unfortunately, Frank Staplin ("Q") and Masato Sakurai contributed many of our indexes, and they are no longer with us.

We found that our songbooks contain a lot of songs nobody is interested in, so there was no need to post those songs at Mudcat - but they can be found in an index search, and then we're happy to post the songs (even pop songs about astronauts!!).

I have information-sharing agreements with Reinhard and with David Engle of the Traditional Ballad Index, so you will sometimes see us posting lengthy passages from those two sources.

-Joe-