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Originally Posted by cmbs
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.
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Sorry, but both the Gen3 and the PC version have exactly the same page numbering bugs.
Try this:
Create a book from an HTML file and go to page "100" in it. Make a note of where that page starts. Now add a hyperlink to a point near the bottom of page "100".
Now, if you jump to that hyperlink the point which was previously near the bottom of the page will be right at the top, but the PC version of the Mobi reader will still tell you that you're looking at page 100. Which is the "real" page 100 - the one that you get to by paging through the book, or the one that you get to by jumping to that hyperlink? Different pages are being displayed, so they can't both be the same page, and yet Mobi reader will tell you that both are "page 100".
All versions of the Mobi reader do this. No Mobi device - free or otherwise - does real pagination. Page numbers are an estimates, whether they tell you this or not. This is obvious if you play around with hyperlinks in books.
That's the way that the Mobi readers have
always worked. Page numbers are nothing more than estimates based on file position.