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Originally Posted by cmbs
But they do show page numbers.
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No, they don't. They show you an estimate of the total number of pages in the book, NOT the current page number (unless I've missed it somewhere?).
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What is the point of having the go to page number feature if it isn't accurate? I don't know the purpose of it at all at this point, it seems totally useless to me unless we can have page numbers shown in the book pages.
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I'd guess it's to give you a quick way of going roughly to a certain point in the book. Eg, if you want to go to a point 80% of the way through a 1000 page book, you'd say "goto page 800". How else would you make large jumps through a long book which perhaps lacked a table of contents?
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I thought they were calculating page numbers, because they supposedly are according to the go to page number feature.
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No, it's obvious from the fact that a "jump" destination always ends up at the top of a page that page numbers are NOT being calculated; they are just estimates based on (presumably) the length of the current page and the total file size.
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If I thought it was hard to calculate page numbers accurately, I'd be more understanding about why they're not available. But here I am thinking they are already doing it. Their own fake and useless feature that doesn't work correctly is making me think they are being stubborn and unresponsive to customer requests for no good reason.
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You have to lay the blame for this one at MobiPocket rather than Bookeen, I think. All versions of the Mobi reader have equally "fake" page numbers, and Bookeen license the Mobi reader code from Bookeen. Some versions of the Mobi reader display page numbers; others don't.