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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?).
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?
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.
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.
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They show the number of pages in the book and allow you to go to a specific page. It certainly does not say "estimated". It says go to page _ of [number of pages]. Nothing about this being anything but accurate is indicated. If you choose to go to page 50, then you assume you're on page 50. It's not at all obvious that it's "estimated." It seems pretty crystal clear to me that they're saying this is how many pages are in the book, and you can go to a specific page.
Mobipocket didn't charge me $350 for a product with multiple problems and then refuse to answer my emails. Furthermore, they absolutely have modified the code, as their version doesn't work nearly as well as the free version I have on my pc.