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View Poll Results: How important are page numbers in Kindle Books? | |||
Very important - I tend to avoid those books and forget the author | 16 | 8.56% | |
Nice to have - I use them if they are there | 57 | 30.48% | |
Not important at all - get over yourself. | 114 | 60.96% | |
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03-27-2016, 09:00 AM | #46 |
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If, however, you sideload your Kindle books using Calibre, Calibre does indeed generate fake numbers for you using essentially the same method that ADE uses (ie based on character count).
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03-27-2016, 09:58 AM | #47 | |
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As I have never cared about fake page numbers, I've never tried finding out whether there is a similar tool which can generate fake page numbers for an EPUB -- but no doubt there is one. What is your point? |
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03-27-2016, 12:03 PM | #48 | |
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I must admit I find the ADE page numbers quite useful because they are exactly the same on my Kobo einks and Android devices. I swap between them frequently and it's easy to find my place. In the absence of a Whispersync-like facility, it does the trick fairly well. I also like to have the exact same page count available in calibre (via Count Pages plugin) for quick and dirty assessment of short/medium/long books. Last edited by jackie_w; 03-27-2016 at 12:10 PM. Reason: typo |
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Although I guess I could hear that EPUB is a less interesting target for those reasons -- not that I'd know anyway, I already said I don't care about fake page numbers. |
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03-28-2016, 11:55 AM | #51 |
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I primarily read novels, so page numbers are not an issue. However, if you are a student or reading stuff that refers to other sections of the book or using an index, you are up a river without a paddle. General cookbooks are also a nightmare without page numbers.
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03-28-2016, 12:10 PM | #52 | |
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It's not a drawback of the format, it's laziness on the part of the author/publisher. Done properly, indexes and reference points are actually easier to use in an ebook. Shari |
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03-28-2016, 12:10 PM | #53 |
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Car owners manual is another that needs page numbers.
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03-28-2016, 12:11 PM | #54 |
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Why? An index, or references to other parts of the book, can entirely satisfactorily be done using hyperlinks.
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03-28-2016, 12:14 PM | #56 |
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03-28-2016, 12:25 PM | #57 |
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Because the people that put them together do not bother with making a workable TOC or index on the ebook so one needs to know where to scroll to.
It isn't like the book is 20 pages. Heck there were 20 pages just on how to install a child's car seat. The darn thing is 900+ pages. It took almost 2 weeks to get in the paper copy. |
03-28-2016, 12:52 PM | #58 |
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That indicates that the ebook has been poorly made, not that car owner's manuals inherently require page numbers. My car (a Mini) has an electronic owner's manual, displayed on its central display console, which is entirely hyperlinked.
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Poorly made is an understatement. I should have said "General Motors Owner's Manuals need page numbers". At least I think General Motors does Chrysler, Dodge and Ram. |
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Out of curiosity, what do you deem as "done properly?" Hitch |
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