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Originally Posted by John F

I think it depends on what device one* uses.

I started out with Sony LRF; a page-is-a-screen device. It made sense to me and I liked it.

Than I tried epub and read about epub and I didn't mind the page numbers in the middle of a screen. Seemed a little funky, but it made sense so I didn't care.

A note for you about word usage in the English language:

Spoiler:

(As you have asked about word usage, it's then. Than and then are <sort of> homonyms, although there is a slight pronunciation difference between them. Then is used to convey TIME, or a sequence--e.g., "I went to the grocery store, THEN I went home to cook what I'd bought." Or, "I went to college, and THEN I was prepared to get a good job."

THAN, however, is comparative. "I would much prefer to eat red meat THAN to eat fish." If you said, in this example, ""I would much prefer to eat red meat THEN to eat fish." you would actually be saying that you'd wish to eat your meat course first, and to eat the fish course after. If that makes sense?

So remember: if you could reword what you are saying as "before/after," it's always then; if it's this OR that, it is most likely than. Hope that helps.

Thus, in your paragragph, as you were discussing what happened in sequence, you would use THEN, not THAN.) I hope that you wanted this type of comment or assistance? Forgive me if not.

I went to a Nook; epub.

Than I went to Kobo and EPub. It had page-is-screen for chapters and epub-pages for total length. I prefered page-is-screen because I check chapter progress more than total book progress.

Than Kobo updated the firmware, and made chapter progress by page-is-a-screen more difficult, so now I use time for chapter progress.

There used to be a lot of posts by first time epub users about "I turned the page and the page number didn't change".

Didn't Kobo go to renumbering pages beginning with each new chapter? So you may have 30 or 100 "page 1's" in an eBook, if it had 30 or 100 chapters?

<SIGH> I am in the midst of a rather unpleasant conversation with a client, who decided to hire a proofreader (that she'd used for her print books, mind you) to check her non-fiction eBook. The proofreader returned hundreds of "mistakes." 147 of them are about the color of a specific element (we told them, BEFORE this started, that they only need to mention a type of thing once); but there are scores about how the "page numbers are wrong." That they are either missing or there are "duplicates." The proofer used Nook for PC, i.e., a form of ADE, essentially, and no matter how many times I have explained this, she doesn't "get" that there are no bloody page numbers in the eBook. Her last note to me this morning was "this HAS TO BE FIXED before the book is acceptable." </sigh>

I tell this story to yes, bitch about it, but also because it does demonstrate that John F.'s comment is correct; it's all what you're used to, isn't it?

I also don't normally need to reference or sync across ereaders.

I would think it wouldn't be uncommn for a new ebook user to expect page-is-a-screen.

* Did I use "one" correctly?

You did indeed! :-)

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