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Originally Posted by jackie_w
You said they are objectively silly. I'm just disagreeing with you. I find them essential for me because of their consistency. I have no personal interest in academic citing.
And I'm not sure what relevance epub page-map/pagelist would have to my reply because many epubs don't have them. Their absence doesn't stop the ADE auto-generated page numbers being present and consistent when all you're trying to do is easily switch between devices.
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I rather thought my whole point was that they
aren't consistent on account of some books use Real Page Numbers and some use a set number of characters.
This is completely ignoring the Kobo, which
apparently uses 1 screen == 1 page, at least some of the time.
"Some of the time" -- even worse than just having one device which consistently goes against the EPUB grain.
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To someone who uses both EPUB and Amazon devices, I am sure we all agree that page numbers are just confusing.
But I daresay that even the EPUB world isn't as dreamily wonderful as some would imply.
Perhaps it is about time we had an actual standard for determining locations in an ebook. Surely that would be a far better solution than page numbers which cannot be guaranteed to work the same way on different devices or different EPUB files.
And even if they were always consistent within the ebook world (just not with paper copies)...
I still want to know why anyone should be attached to this specific implementation of a standardized reference system over alternatives that are less unfortunately named.