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Old 08-25-2011, 02:09 PM   #307
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Adobe Digital Editions is the software that converts the EPUB into a readable book on your screen. If you're reading side-loaded books on a kobo, you are reading one rendered using Adobe Digital Editions. Almost all eReaders use ADE as the core of their rendering, even if they touch it up a bit before final rendering.
OK, so if this is true then all ebooks should have the exact same pagination, hence no need for some kind of specialized repagination scheme. After all "Almost all eReaders use ADE as the core of their rendering".

I just spent some time checking the source code of several ebooks I've purchased in epub, mobi and imp format and it turns out I can't find a single reference to Adobe. It seems to me they are all just different, modified versions of HTML

In fact, after taking a better look at some, let's call them "free" ebooks, which I acquired in multiple formats, there was not only no mention of Adobe, but there was absolutely no pagination scheme at all!

I'm no professional programmer, so what I'm seeing with my own two eyes could be completely wrong. Or else, maybe, I'm not so sure that what you say is actually true.

Page numbers are just so much smoke, so I'll just quote myself again:
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At Amazon you can find English editions of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" with anything from 480 to 600 pages!
If you and some friend had ereaders with "ADE" and you're both reading exactly the same "ADE"-version of the same ebook, I guess, well then you could, in all likelihood, share passages by exchanging "ADE" page numbers.

I wonder: would Kobo's implementation of "ADE page numbers" coincide with Amazon's "real page numbers"? Are ebooks absolutely static? Would a dedicated publisher correct errors in later versions of an ebook? Perhaps in response to consumer feedback? What would happen to that nifty "ADE" pagination scheme then?

This is the request forum so: I request that Kobo devs don't bust their brains on any of this pagination stuff and just concentrate on a simple searching feature.

Incidentally, this would neatly solve the bookmarking issue too. Tow birds, one stone!

ps: Ain't it a shame we haven't seen any posts from Kobo devs in weeks now?
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