I fully understand ADE-style page-numbering. Really, what is there not to understand?
And I repeat I'm not interested in it, because it's divorced from real life. I, too, read the same e-books on various platforms (Moon on Android for me), but still I'm not interested in ADE page numbers. I don't mind finding my reading location manually, using the "percentage in book" data. Really, given all the functionality gaps that Marvin and Moon still have today, making such a fuss over cross-platform reading location syncing seems overblown to me. I could name dozens of concerns that seem more urgent to me to fix both in Marvin and Moon.
Therefore, please don't assume that everyone is like you. What you're suggesting is for us to be flipping pages on our reading devices, often without the page number changing at all, just because Adobe doesn't consider that to be a page flip.
It's just been reported as a bug by moosejons_dad, and I agree. Can anything be more divorced from real life?
But, again, I don't believe user preferences in software must be mutually exclusive. I'm all for Marvin giving each of us the option to choose whatever page-numbering style we prefer. You would pick ADE-style page numbering in Marvin, and I would not. That's it.
That would be a true win-win situation – not the one you seemed to allude to, with imposing your own preference on all Marvin users.
As to cross-platform comparability of reading location – yeah, that's a real issue, but the solution does not, in my opinion, lie in something as arbitrary as ADE page numbers are. I like the percentage option a lot better – with two decimal numbers, however (72.48%). Kumabjorn started
a thread recently where we concluded (I think) that cross-platform cooperation of e-reader software is pretty much a pipe-dream nowadays – unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I like having the number of screens left in a chapter.
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That's just
your preference. I like seeing
both pages left in
chapter and pages ("real-life" pages, not ADE pseudo-pages) left in
book displayed in the footer. I'm
ecstatic that Marvin 3 finally makes this possible – it's one of the best improvements versus Marvin 2 for me.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I am not asking for that to be removed.
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Maybe you haven't noticed, but Kris has confirmed that headers and footers customization via templates and placeholders is coming to Marvin 3, so you'll be able to put whatever you want in your headers and footers. If Kris makes it possible for you to put ADE-style page numbers in there, that's great! Any
single solution is bad, because every Marvin user is different. Each of us would like to see something different in our headers and footers.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
for me if it pisses you off, it's a double win
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No doubt.
You've always been one of the "friendliest" MobileRead posters (not). Try not to get yourself banned outta here for the umpteenth time this time around, though, because you do have valuable input to bring to Marvin development.
