Thread: Sony Preparing New E-Book Reader to Challenge Amazon
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Old 08-26-2011, 09:46 PM   #161
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
You and I might be using completely different reading devices. If I'm reading the book on my 25" PC monitor with Windows ADE, and you're reading it on your 5" Sony PRS-350, the "screen pages" will bear no relation to each other. The ADE page numbers, however, will still be the same on our two machines.
True but this has simply made it software-dependent rather than a hardware-dependent. Using iBooks on a Mac will give different page numbers than an ADE-based program.

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Originally Posted by khalleron View Post
Because different ebook readers use different fonts and font sizes - you'd have to guarantee that they're all using the same ereader, as well as specifying the font and font size.

So much simpler to have a well-defined 'page' that's the same across devices and preferences.
The ePUB format has the ability to specify pages, but it's either not yet full accepted in the spec, or nobody uses it. I looked in to trying to add page numbers to a book because my daughter complained of her eBook not matching her class' pbook. It wasn't going to be an easy process, and I gave up.

I should probably take another look and try with something short.

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