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Originally Posted by sun surfer
Why can't an e-reader have both options?
I'd much rather it display pages by screen, not by characters. A book does it the same way. It doesn't count characters for page numbers; it just numbers whatever happens to be on each page.
For me anyway, I think it's a much better indicator of how much is left in a book if I knew the pages by screen, because I can estimate how fast I'm reading each page to estimate how much longer the book will take. True, I can do that with pages by characters, but it's more complicated.
I can see how some who read on multiple platforms may like pages by characters, but I generally use just one, and I'd much rather pages by screen.
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Actually pocketbook readers (at least my 302, but I guess, the new models as well) do this, when opening a book with fbreader (when using ADE reader, it shows you the "ADE-page"). So it is possible. When you change the size in fbreader, it recalculates the number of "pageturns", let's call it "screens".
There is a workaround for Sony though, I discovered by chance just a few days ago: As all my books go through calibre first, I converted a few to LRF before uploading them to the reader, just for the fun of it, and to see, how this looks like on the reader. Besides looking good, pagination works just the way you want it to ("screens"). It takes a few seconds, though, when you open the book first time, and when changing the font size.
I have to say, although I perfectly understand the reason, why counting is done the way it is done in ADE (quotations), I still prefer to see the actual screen count, whatever the fontsize. Why not implement both possibilities and let the customer choose, whether to have "pages" or "screens" displayed in the counter?
EDIT: Anyway, any kind of number is still much, much better the the "progress bar" an early mobi/prc-reader would give you. I liked my Gen3 a lot, but this "feature" was quite a drawback.