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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Yes, almost. The progress bar is exactly that but the page number is skewed a bit in that the reader has knowledge of where you currently are in the book if you got there from reading from the beginning. It counts the pages as you go so where you are is accurate. It also remembers the boundaries back a few pages so you can backup and it will be accurate. At least that is the way the MobiPocket reader itself works. I can't say for third party implementations. Given the page starting location can be referenced exactly to a starting point in the file the jump can be calculated slightly more accurately that just distance from the beginning of the file. This is what provides a false sense to many people that it is accurate. You really have to test it out to know for sure. A few jumps from approximated to approximated locations will tell the tale.
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Yes, and the tale for the Cybook is that it is totally inaccurate.
What do you mean that the jump can be calculates more accurately? If you have html code which contains comments or other markup that are not displayed then it will not be possible to calculate the jump accurately at all if the jump is intended to be pages.