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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
@Ea AFAIR ADE counts 1024 chars as 1 page. A standard page would be max 1800 chars.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
But don't forget that an ADE page is 1024 characters in the compressed file, so it won't be far off the 1800 mark in the uncompressed text.
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Since this has generated quite a bit of discussion, it seems like there is a need for a standard way to indicate a location within an ebook, one that works regardless of the way the ebook is formatted. Since the formatting of ebooks can vary the number of pages so much, conventional page numbers don't fulfill this function.
Some possibilities:
- Paragraph numbers (all paragraphs, whether main or sub, are treated as individual consecutive paragraphs). The displayed paragraph number reflects the number of the paragraph at the top of the screen.
- Based on a fixed number of words (say 100 words).
- Flat page references based on marks within the ebook, ones the author puts in. Example: The author puts a page mark (say page 8) at a point in the ebook, the page counter indicates "8.0." Each page turn increments the counter by 0.1 (8.1, 8.2, 8.3, and so on) until the next page mark is encountered (which becomes "9.0").
- Small pages, where a page is considered the amount of text that will fit on a small page (say the size of a 3" x 5" card). An ereader's screen might hold two to four of these "small pages."
Your thoughts?