02-14-2011, 09:12 PM | #61 |
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If I understand you correctly the answer is no. The page numbers generated for the Kindle will be the same regardless of what size font you choose within your reader. IOW, increasing font size on your reader will not change the page numbering.
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No. I don't see a technical way to achieve this either. From what I know about the APNX file this is not a feature. Quote:
That said Amazon is the only one with the necessary information to map to a print book. Calibre doesn't have that information so it tries (multiple ways) to make a page roughly the length of what you would have if you printed it the size of a paper back book. |
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02-14-2011, 09:47 PM | #63 |
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I think it is great that user_none etc has made the effort to add this so quickly, well done.
However unless I am missing something I see the only value this feature has is to give a user a rough mental guide as to how many relative "pages" various books on your device may have. The only additional value Amazon's implementation of page numbers offers is to researchers/students who want to specify a reference, which of course this Calibre feature could at best only roughly estimate. What Amazon keep avoiding is reflected in the questions by 3rdDegree and mirror my own desires of a "page turn" number which actually has meaning to the rest of us who read books on the Kindle. I could care less about the number of pages in the printed book. What I do care about is how many more times I have to click the next page button to get to the end of the book, or as 3rdDegree has said the end of the chapter. This "page turn" number should reflect the font sizes etc. I apologise if I am digressing - of course it is not a Calibre issue nor in any way possible to implement. It is an Amazon/Kindle one. I just find it interesting the approach that Amazon have taken in response to lots of us bleating about what a nonsense "location numbers" were. |
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I think Amazon adding a print page number feature is great for students and user_none implementing a pseudo numbering system is also a great benefit for many users who have expressed a desire for such a feature. |
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I guess you don't know until you try it. From years of paperback reading I have become ingrained of walking the tightrope of "do I finish this book before I go do something" or "can I get to the end of the chapter before I fall asleep". I agree in your case a number like 3800 representing the size of a book would take some wrapping your head around. However knowing I have an end point coming up in 2 pages versus one in 15 can be life or death for not getting yelled at sometimes |
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Yes it is possible. This type of request, being so niche, would be best implemented as a GUI plugin. I would put a request in the sub forum and see if anyone is interested in creating it.
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02-15-2011, 09:14 AM | #68 |
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Thanks I've added a post to the "plugin ideas" thread. Thanks for your feedback!
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02-15-2011, 03:52 PM | #69 |
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It might be more popular than you think. Kindle for PC now does page numbers, and I guess write to disk would be the way to manage K4PC via Calibre.
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02-15-2011, 06:35 PM | #70 |
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Not knowing Calibre's internals, how difficult would it be to have it support either Adobe's non-standard page-map extension or NCX/pageList so that actual physical page numbers from an EPUB could be preserved in APNX when converting to MOBI?
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02-17-2011, 01:30 PM | #71 |
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Wow this is really cool. Would it be possible to apply the same algorithm for more accurate page numbers to the page map feature that ADE supports for ePUB? You can read about the page map feature in our wiki under ADE.
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This algorithms is not directly portable to EPUB. This algorithm relies on specifying a character offset, which works for MOBI, but in EPUB you can only use HTML anchors, not character offsets.
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02-19-2011, 08:33 AM | #73 |
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The Only place where I can see someting with pagenumbers ist the GOTO menu. When I read a book there is no pagenumber on the screen.
Is it right that the pagenumber only appears in the GOTO menu ?? |
02-19-2011, 08:51 AM | #74 |
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If the book is one of those that has the page numbers file, you will see the page number when you press the MENU button while reading the book. While the menu is displayed, both page numbers and locations numbers will be displayed just above the progress bar at the bottom of the screen.
In addition, this now applies to location numbers regardless of whether page numbers are present or not - they now only get displayed while the menu is displayed. This appears to be in response to all those who complained that having location numbers visible all the time was too distracting. |
02-19-2011, 09:08 AM | #75 |
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You have to have the 3.1 pre-release firmware installed to see page numbers.
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