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There are many quality control systems of that type.

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It's indeed 423808 in Code 128, repeated. Very likely some bindery control sequence: use of barcodes there is not unusual (though one would expect it to be trimmed properly, esp. with such redundancy...)
The value may be anything, depending on the printer and binding system.
The IBIS binder system for instance uses a barcode with a sheet number, a total, a control code, a short book ID and a job ID. Doesn't match here, but that's the general idea.

Le Dragon de Brume is glad to announce that the "Winter 2025" revision (4th edition) of "A bilbiography of Tolkien Studies in French and English" is out.
It now includes 4,541 références (and covers approx. 392 books)

#tolkienStudies #tolkien #tolkiendil #jrrtolkien

@lou_de_sel Si tu as déjà du Markdown en entrée... Il y a quelques alternatives à un rendu PDF par LaTeX:

1/ Pandoc, oui mais + #Typst en moteur (mais je n'ai pas regardé comment personnaliser les styles)

2/ #SILE + resilient.sile (et qui a une configuration des styles en YAML). J'ai produit quelques livres avec ça (je suis l'auteur du module resilient.sile) avec notes de bas de pages, biblios, maths etc, donc queques-uns publiés en impression POD.