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Originally Posted by odedta
On iPad1 and iPad3 (iBooks) when you change the font-size the whole book seems to reload, the scroller on the bottom does the animation of loading the book and it takes the same amount of time for the animation to end as it does when a book is loaded the first time, so I think you're wrong on the fact that only the chapter gets reloaded, on the iPads, I am not sure about other readers, I haven't checked.
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{sigh.}. Ok, oh, the IPAD does it. Well, that nails it. On the device upon which your client will sell 1 for every 1,000 books that she sells on OTHER readers, that is the answer, then.
The iBooks app, on the iPad TABLET, is not an e-reader, in the usual sense of the word. It's an app, emulating an e-reader. I mean, let's be clear here. You ever watch how long it takes those teeny little dots to fill in, across the page, when you change the font size, as it repaginates the entire book? Yes, pretty much forever. Apple, thinking that their e-reader had to look (and work) differently than everyone else's, made it repaginate the entire book. Probably 98% of all the other e-readers out there, particularly the real ones, don't work that way. Because they only load one chapter at a time.
if you're acquainted with the recommended file-size limit for epubs (under 256K-ish, for ease of remembrance), it's for that reason: because many of the older devices have a
file-size limit. That's for the entire book if it's made as a single file, but the reason that everyone recommends it being for a single "chapter" is because that's how the books are loaded--one file (chapter) at a time. Not the whole book.
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My ePubs are always made to separate files. Thanks for the reference to Amazon's guidelines, that nails it for me 
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As I said before, if you're charging, you should already know this, across the board. You should know it's not possible on the other 98% of readers, and you should know that it's against Amazon's FG. I don't mean to sound rude, but you should.
Can we PLEASE stop talking about this now? I mean, it's a damn dumb request in the first place, and it's undoable on all real e-reading devices. For your client, tell her you magically made it work, show it to her on the ipad, and tell her on any device that SUPPORTS it, it will display. Ta-da! (Please, tell me you don't really do this. it's an aggravated joke.)
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