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Originally Posted by DaleDe
MobiPocket has a terrible time with pagination. You never know how many pages there are in the book nor how close you are to the next chapter. If you jump to a chapter ahead and backup you will find the pagination is not the same as you would have if you read the same page moving forward instead of jumping. This is certainly not like a real book. (The problem in MobiPocket is one of user control. The user can redo the font at any time which totally messes up the pagination)
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That's interesting - pagination works fine on the iLiad MobiPocket Reader. It paginates the file when you load the book and again if you change the font size. The way that navigation works on the iLiad is that you have a "bar" along the bottom of the page representing the book, with page 1 at the left side and the last page of the book at the right side (it displays the total number of pages). Tapping the bar at any point takes you to that point in the book. You can also set the bar to show individual page numbers if you want finer control. All works perfectly.
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How does the Sony reader deal with pagination issues if the format doesn't impose them?
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It paginates when you first open the book - you get a "busy" cursor - and again the first time you select a given font size (of which there are only three - small, medium, large). Generally only takes a few seconds; the longest I think I've seen it take is about 30 seconds for an extremely long book.