Thread: Kepub limitation
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Old 06-28-2014, 08:53 AM   #6
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Anak View Post
Not true per se, if the epub has no embedded page-map or pageList or contains universal (not vendor specific [read: Adobe]) "page markers" like <a id="page=3"/> (similar for figures <a id="fig3.0">, chapters <a id="c3">) then it falls back to arbitrary page numbers using roughly 1024 bytes per page.
There is an explanation of the page numbering in the wiki here. While it is based on 1024 bytes per page, is based on the compressed files in the epub.
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The Adobe renderer respects these "solutions".

The Access Renderer for kepub has similar issues.
If you increase the font size, let's say double or triple it from the current size. The page numbers per book or chapter stay the same. Therefore a page turn does not automatically increase the page number as shown on the pageometer on the bottom of the screen.
Unless you have "FullBookPageNumbers=true" in the config file, the page numbering for kepubs is an exact match to the screens. It recalculates the page numbers as you change the font size, line spacing or margins.
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To solve this page number issue you have to decrease the font size accordingly. Applies for regular and kepubs.




Yes, that's right, when tired you got an idea how many pages you have to read to finish the chapter. This is useful.

About a more realistic experience of reading a book. For the actual page numbers within a chapter: true.
I think I've lost track of what you and the OP are referring to here. For fiction, the way that epubs number the books is much more like a paper book than a kepub is. I don't think that I have ever seen a novel, or a collection of short stores, that are numbered per chapter or story. I have only seen this with text books.
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Regarding the lay out of book: false (or partly false).

The embedded css book crafted by the publisher mimics the actual book best.
The Kobo code (a hack actually) overrides this embedded css and applies (wraps arround) it's own css. This messes up the original css and the results may vary from book to book. But I'm not gonna rant about Kobo code issues here.
Let's assume that the Kobo style hacks don't mess up the orignal lay out of the publisher too much and the lay out of a page still looks good but it does not mimic the actual paper book best. The regular epub version does this better. Every single time. That's just the nature of the Kobo style hacks.
Personally, I don't find purchased kepubs to be any worse than the equivalent epub. Just about any time I have started the kepub version of a book and found it was strangely formatted, when I looked at epub, it was just as bad. And I have a few very well formatted books that the only way to tell the difference is because of the title and page numbering. And sideloaded kepubs are the same as the epubs versions.
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