Thread: Sick of Amazon Kindle books without Page Numbers...
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Old 04-05-2016, 02:35 AM   #159
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Originally Posted by detayls View Post
I beg to differ. Almost the entire discussion was about how useless the concept of a page number is given the ability to change font and size.

Amazon's addition 5 years ago of the page numbers tied to a print version of the book invalidates this claim.
Sorry, but NO. Amazon adding this five years ago just means that some executive thought it was a good idea. It was probably some marketing executive trying to think of a good way to make the Kindle "different" to other devices.

The amount of discussion on the feature in those five years is probably a better way to validate or not how useful it is. And apart from this thread, I can't comment on it as I don't pay much attention to Kindles. I didn't even know they support this. I do know that when people in the Kobo forum ask about page numbers matching the paper book, if you ask "Which edition?" they usually see why it might not be as good an idea as they thought. Or maybe I should say, not as practical as they first thought.
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