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Originally Posted by arturox
I've search around here for info about navigating to a specific page in a document on the Kobo Touch. (Purchased late 2012).
The last discussion ended in 2010 with it being on the list for a future firmware update.
Since then has anything been done about this very important issue?
Thanks
Arturox
NB: I can't understand how anyone could release a reader that doesn't have a Goto specific page option as part of the system right from the first release.
Next you'll be selling Motor cars without steering wheels.
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I'd have to disagree with you. I find the page numbers depend on the ebook being read. Much like dead tree books where you needed to have the same edition to have page numbers mean anything, ebooks tend to vary in the page number quite widely. About the only time page numbers would even come close is for devices that use the same page number generation scheme on identical ebook files. For Adobe's page number generation algorithm, this would mean not only the exact same content but compressed using the same compression algorithm and options since the page numbers are based on compressed data size. For me, that would mean no longer compressing files in epubs I edit using newer compression algorithms.
At one time I was reading the same ebook as a friend who was reading on his Kindle, I simply did a search in the book for one word out of the passage he mentioned -- the word being improbable -- and about 3 seconds later, I was looking at chapter 6 in "The Sign of Four" at the line "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth."
He was able to search in much the same manner and it was much easier than translating his 1354 of 12777 which was what his Kindle showed or my page 206 of 899 for use on his Kindle.
To continue your automotive analog, are you in favour of having a manual choke? Using a manual spark advance? Or are you willing to give up control of your automobile to the computer controlled systems?
Perhaps we should revive the Red Flag legislation so you would require a person walking 55m in front of your car carrying a red flag.
Page numbers are even more of a relic of the past than any of those three items and equally deserving of being relegated to the midden.
Regards,
David