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Old 12-12-2007, 01:10 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by GregS View Post
Nice thread about an important problem.

There are a number of problems associated with ebooks that need attention. First, for serious rather than recreational reading page numbers are now meaningless, at best as internal references to p-book editions. Standard formats need to include rational numbering schemes as mandatory requirements.

If we end up numbering chapters and paragraphs, the option of showing the numbers has to be dealt with elegantly - at the moment this is a black-hole. Page numbers are effectively gone, and nothing is there to replace them.
BBeB has page numbers. And when you look at different versions of pbooks and editions, you can end up with different page numbering. If you are So basically, when you refer to page numbers on the ebook, you refer to the page number and text size and then you have it.
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