Thread: I hate page numbers ARGH!
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Old 09-07-2010, 02:25 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by pholy View Post
The page numbers are a 'feature' of the ADE epub reader supplied by Adobe.
Not true. They're calculated on the fly by whatever reading software you're using. My previous ebook reader would do exactly what Tazina described -- recalculate based on font size. Pretty useless, in my opinion. My current reader fixes the pages numbers but, as Tazina said, I'll be on the same page for several page turns. Still a bit annoying at times, but at least reliable. And neither of my readers support ADE.

Note that pbooks often suffer from the same problem. I have five or six copies of Lord of the Rings lying around my house -- from an old Bantam three-volume paperback set to a deluxe single-volume Harper Collins commemorative edition, all with differing page numbers. One must specify which edition along with the page number to be of any use.

Either way, page numbers are simply an anachronistic imposition of a pbook metaphor onto ebooks, because at this point ebooks don't offer a better mechanism to replace them with.

--Nathanael
Last edited by Nathanael; 09-07-2010 at 02:39 AM.
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