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Old 12-08-2014, 11:50 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
ADE's page numbers are as reliable as anything out there for eBooks. True you can get the page numbers to change my modifying the ePub. But if it's the ePub as it came straight from the publishers, then the page numbers are good enough to use to quote from.

Generally a page-map is made from some print version of the book.
And the entire point of my little speech is that page numbers out there for books are not reliable, therefore the "fact" that ADE's are as reliable as anyone else's merely means that they are as UNRELIABLE as anyone else's.

And besides, that isn't true. Amazon Real Page Numbers are reliable, ADE calculated page numbers are not. ADE page-map numbers are reliable, just as much as an APNX I am sure -- but how do you know which one you have, without breaking open the EPUB?

No, I am not worried about malicious editing of the page-map. I am worried it simply won't exist.

Thus -- avoid page numbers in ebooks.
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