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Old 05-21-2008, 07:26 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by DigiDirk View Post
I would not say broken, but...

Since said HTML book does not contain pagebreak information
it has to be rendered in one big / long / however you call it page...

Read such - but not so big - book once. Having just one page I had
to scroll every time I stopped reading back to the line I read last.

Dirk
But how do you do THAT? I have several 5+ MB HTML books and they're several thousand "pages" long. Even if you remember where you were, how do you get there quickly? I would call that broken.

My old REB1100 allocated page numbers, and remembered them. And when you turned it back on, there you were in a couple of seconds, not half a minute or more. I know the files were not HTML, but RB files are constructed like HTML. Moreover if you changed the font size you did not lose your place and the page numbers changed accordingly, so fast software techniques to do it must be available.

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