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Originally Posted by markbot
they could continue to do the corresponding physical page numbers, as they do with some books. this is the best overall but takes the most effort. because physical page sizes differ, it is also not perfect though.
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I'm interested to know why you think this is the best way. I don't agree at all. As an ebook reader the pagination of a paper edition of the book I'm reading means nothing to me, and doesn't really give me any information about my progress through the book in relation to the amount of text on each page, and it's counter-intuitive for the page number to change every 1.7 'pages' of the Kindle screen.
It seems to me to be forcing the Kindle edition to be a digital version of a paper book rather than a book in a digital medium in its own right.
Of course, 'real' page numbers still have use for referencing, but I feel that is something that will become less relevant as ebooks become the norm and paper books the exception.
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I just use the following formula:
location number / 20= page number
This is about 2 kindle screen turns.
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I don't think that's easier or more intuitive than 'Screen 5 of 240', which is exactly how page numbers work on the paper books we've all lived with up until a few years ago and also takes advantage of the digital medium's ability to calculate these things for us based on font/screen sizes.