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Originally Posted by Faterson
Yes, I confirm I'm seeing this. Not just duplication of page numbers, but sometimes also the opposite – jumps by 2 or 3 (instead of 1) when you flip the page, or even (on the 13-inch iPad Pro) jumps by 4 pages with a single page flip. I must say this only seems to occur in malformatted EPUB files, and it only occurs with the "pages in book" data – whereas "pages in chapter" seems to be 100% reliable. I reported this bug to Kris a week ago or so.
And no, I don't believe Jon's beloved "ADE-style page numbers" is the solution. Adobe?  Now I'm shuddering... Please let's stay away from "anything Adobe". On the other hand, if Kris implements "ADE-style page numbers" later on to humour Jon and perhaps other Adobe fans, I have nothing against that, as long as the ADE-style would remain purely optional in Marvin. I would not switch to ADE-style page numbering even if it were available in Marvin right now. Like Kris himself, I very much prefer the "real-life" calculation of "pages left" that Marvin 3 attempts to do currently, even though it is buggy. But it's very nice to see that the same book may have 450 "pages"/screens on the 8-inch iPad mini, but only 280 "pages"/screens on the 13-inch iPad Pro, because that (unlike ADE-style page numbers) actually corresponds to the real-life sizes of those reading devices.  |
You don't get it at all. So don't berate a feature you have no understanding of. I have a Kobo Aura H2O and it uses ADE as the ePub reading software. having ADE page numbers in Marvin would mean that switching to/from iPhone/iPad to my H2O means all I need to do is go to the same page and I am where I left off. No need to search for some text so I can find my place.
I like having the number of screens left in a chapter. I am not asking for that to be removed. But there is room in the footer for adding in ADE page numbering. So this way everyone wins (and for me if it pisses you off, it's a double win).