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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's not a small drawback at all. Your solution would make it virtually impossible to reference specific portions of an ebook in a book club or academic setting.
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If both locations AND screen numbers existed though, you'd have the best of both worlds.
When reading the book and wanting to know how many "pages" are left you'd be able to see the current screen number and total. When you want to point out a specific place in the book for a book club or discussion, use the current location.
I have no need to give others a page to reference although I accept that there are plenty of people who would value that ability, however I do like to remember I'm on page X and have read roughly X pages tonight with X to go. Even if the page total and current page ended up changing with any font change, that'd be fine for many use cases. The progress bar helps to an extent, but I'd still prefer to also have screen x of y at the bottom of the screen.
So in a way there's a need for 3 types of page.
* Location X of Y (as exists now)
* Screen X of Y (for the cases where location is overkill and clunky to use)
* Real page X of Y (for books that support it and have pages set based on the paper edition. This wouldn't replace current screen though as you may have several screens to a single real page etc)
Option to set which is displayed at the base of the screen with the rest appearing on the menu.
My guess as to why this hasn't materialised though, is that a change in font size would require a re-parsing of the entire book up to your current location in order to calculate how many screens have been viewed. Perhaps doing that takes sufficiently long enough that it'd be too much of an inconvenience. Location doesn't suffer from that since it's just a byte count (or similar). That said, still be nice to have as an option, off by default with a quick note that changing fonts will cause some delay whilst screens are recalculated, if you don't mind the wait, enable it, otherwise leave it off. Having never changed the font size other than once during initial setup, it wouldn't bother me :P