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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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.
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Very interesting. So it is like digital editions. I am surprised that Sony paginates on the fly since it only has 3 font sizes. My 1150 only supports two user choices (zoom) and it simply paginates them both when the file is built thereby offering instant swaps of zoom levels. The author/publisher of the book is responsible to check both zoom levels to ensure that pagination doesn't do anything stupid. For example, ib tables I find that I occasionally use the soft hyphen to make the table work with the larger font. Sometimes I even move an image so that it shows up reasonably in both sizes. But the user experience is instant, no matter how big the book is.
I am also surprised that MobiPocket hasn't backported this solution into their standard offering. It is a big complaint among MobiPocket users.
Dale