Vols fan, eh?
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Originally Posted by volwrath
I think the epub format is a better (more versatile) format, yes. And I believe anyone with technical knowledge of each format will agree.
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Well, yes and no. There are some aspects of it that, frankly, don't matter to most people and never will. The page number thing was added because enough people wanted it. The page number files that come from Amazon are tied to a specific print edition, the ISBN of which is noted on the product page. I don't believe it was ever meant to be anything more than a concession to those who prefer page counts over location. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I tend to be one of them in practice, but I'm not using it for citations, I'm using it to get an idea of how much I'm reading.
Calibre page counts are from a file markup analysis and are merely a convenience feature - one which I happen to use and like very much. It's not meant to duplicate Amazon's implementation, and it's not meant to be exact.
For specific pinpointing of part of a text, it's all about locations, locations, locations.
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Originally Posted by volwrath
To me the point is that anyone who reads the same kindle book should be able to have the same page number, but instead you have K1 uses who are on location 1214-1233, K3 users who are on location 1216, and k3 users with calibre who are on page 84. Makes no sense.
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Is this actually true? Forget the calibre part for a moment, because those books have locations too, regardless of their page count status. To my knowledge, the nature of locations should make them consistent across devices. I mean, that's how Whispersync syncs furthest read and bookmarks. Can someone actually verify that the same book downloaded to different device versions (K1, K2, K3) show different results?
All that aside, I do agree with your gripe about the TOC/chapter marker thing. Obviously it's too complicated because few publishers/indies seem to be doing it properly. Either that, or they don't care to do it properly. (I've done it, and I personally don't think it's that hard, but I'm not a publisher.
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So I guess my gripe on that isn't so much the mobi spec as it is the fact that people aren't using it.