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Originally Posted by Kingston
The number of pages changes with the font size on any of the devices, but that's not reason for Cybook to make it so dang hard to use the go to utility. None of the other dedicated readers have chosen to shortchange the user in this way. I have to find my numeric place in another device (Sony, Iliad, etc.) and guesstimate where I want to go in Cybook. Most irritating!!
I suspect Harry will shoulder up his lance, pull down his visor and try to skewer my remarks. Lay on MacDuff!
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Thanks, I will!
The reason they've left off page numbers is almost certainly that they are almost completely meaningless - there's a major bug in the Mobi reader "engine" (all versions of it) which make page numbers almost worthless.
Have you got the Windows Mobi reader installed on your PC? Try this little experiment:
- Load a book.
- Page through it (just press "PgDn") a few dozen times until you get to some easily recognisable point in the book, such as the start of a chapter.
- Make a note of the page number shown on the status bar.
- Go back to the start of the book.
- Select "Goto page" and enter the page number you wrote down.
Are you back at the place you noted?
The answer is "no, you're not". You'll probably be something like a dozen pages away from it, and the further you go through the book, the worse the discrepency becomes. In a 500 page book, by the time you're half-way through it, the error can be over 100 pages.
Now you tell me. Given this bug (which seems to be deep in the Mobi reader "core" - Bookeen can't do anything about it, probably, because it's not in their code), what's the use of page numbers? If you're reading a book and you note something interesting happens on page 250, you can't later say "goto page 250" and get back to that point in the book.
I repeat that ALL versions of the Mobi reader show this bug.
So, what's the only sensible thing to do in this situation? I think personally that to simply show a progress bar rather than a page number is actually the best thing that can be done. It's better than showing page numbers which actually don't mean a thing!
The progress bar is certainly a perfectly adequate way of judging your position in the book, IMHO.
Over to you, Kingston. Given the existance of this Mobi bug, why do you want page numbers? What are you going to use them for?