04-04-2008, 12:47 PM | #1 |
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Yet Another Thread on Page Numbers (when will it stop?)
If you want an ergonomic reader that works well for holding in one hand, I highly recomend the 505. It is very nice for holding in one hand for reading/page turning. And as you may have read, people want proper page numbers which only Sony has.
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04-04-2008, 01:17 PM | #2 |
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The iLiad has exactly the same page numbering bugs with Mobi files that every other Mobi device does. They appear to be inherent in the Mobi reader itself.
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Is this the "progress bar" thing? Kindle seems to have a modified version of that idea. I'm guessing that they just took the way mobi calculates progress and made it a bit more transparent to the user by telling you the location number.
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04-04-2008, 04:33 PM | #7 |
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Yes, exactly. There's nothing wrong with the progress bar; the issue is with the actual page number that some version of the Mobi Reader also display. It's not terribly accurate.
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The progress bar display the same thing as the page number I would assume so the progress bar is not terrible accurate either.
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I do not think it is the numer of bytes you have read but the number of bytes up to the current file position which is not the same for an HTML file. |
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The book I did my "paging vs. jumping" test on was illustrated, and there were a couple of pictures in the bit I paged through. I wonder if that might have contributed to the rather extreme error I found (14 pages in 52)? I'm about to go to bed now, but I'll repeat the experiment in the morning with a book that doesn't have any pictures, and see if it's any more accurate.
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What do you mean that the jump can be calculates more accurately? If you have html code which contains comments or other markup that are not displayed then it will not be possible to calculate the jump accurately at all if the jump is intended to be pages. |
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It would be a lot better described as an approximate positioning mechanism rather than an exact "page count", however. |
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