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Originally Posted by James Bryant
I am currently reading a book with well over 3000 pages - and when I turn it on it always goes to a page around 2700, irrespective of where I turned it off. It is a monumental pain to have to find the place again (for some reason the bookmarks don't work, either) and a running page number display would be a real help.
Incidentally the justifications [A] that adequate pagination uses too much power and processing, and [B] that too few readers require it, do not hold water. It is all very well to be understanding about the costs and complications of developing an ebook to a price with limited resources but if the product does not do what the customer expects it will not sell. This was the problem with a number of Clive Sinclair's world-changing innovations - they were the first, but their defects were such that as soon as there was any competition the Sinclair device was so obviously inferior that they lost out quickly.
Readers of paper books expect them to have page numbers to simplify navigation. If migration from dead tree to ebook is to be successful the new medium must offer all the same conveniences and more, anything missing is a scourge for the backs of the ebook promoters. And if some ebooks have the feature the ones that do not will lose out.
If real pages (one screenful) are too really much trouble, it is likely that an "epage" of 512 words would be acceptable.
James
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As long as you're having this problem when returning to the last page you read, I'd agree that knowing what "page" to jump to is important. And it indicates there's a problem in the program. I'd like to know if, when you say "3,000 page", you mean 3,000 e-book pages or 3,000 dead-tree pages. Could be that a 3,000 page book (in TPB or HC format) falls out to a much larger page count on an ebook - maybe even large enough that it violates Mobipocket's preconceptions about page count. I know that the David Weber book "Empire from the Ashes" runs to 784 pages in HC but runs to well over 2,400 on the Cybook when I use Georgia font and the font size that works best for me. That's a 3x page-count multiplier. Perhaps there's a limit for the bookmarking software where it presumes nothing higher than 8,000 pages???
Derek