Thread: Firmware Update Kindle adds Page Numbers (and more)
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Old 02-07-2011, 10:46 PM   #62
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Originally Posted by scotter View Post
Why do they not do page numbers for all books? They would only change when changing the text size, just have some way to make the user aware of that, or have it hidden in some deep dark setting so the users who would complain about it changing never find it.
Because they aren't using "screen numbers" (dividing book into how many screens it is) -- as page numbers, which would be useless for academic citation or book club people. They are actually making them correspond to a specific print edition, which is a lot more work.
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