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Originally Posted by kguil
1) Marvin's page number is not bogus.
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Sorry, I insist it
is bogus.
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Originally Posted by kguil
It is as arbitrary as any other method.
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Nope – the "pages in chapter" data is
not bogus: you flip a page, and the page count goes down by 1, exactly 1, every time you flip the page, regardless of the size of your reading device.
That is
not bogus (and
only this is
not bogus), and it's exactly how real-life printed books work.
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Originally Posted by kguil
3) The total pages on iPads/iPhones/Pros being exactly the same *is* the point.
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And it's definitely the
false point, to me. It runs contrary to many users' sensible expectations, I'm sure. And, it's totally inconsistent within Marvin, too: you use real-life page numbers for "pages in
chapter", but arbitrary fake numbers for "pages in
book"?
Could you get any more inconsistent, Kris?
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Originally Posted by kguil
4) If a 'screen' contains more than 250 words then, by definition, it is showing more than one 'page'. Hence when you flip to the next 'screen' the page count may increment by more than one.
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The height of absurdity, Kris.
Sorry, but only a professional programmer/geek (I mean it in a good way, not as a slight) who has lost touch with real-life, non-geek book readers could say that this was in any way smart, logical or expectable. So, Kris, "you flip a single page, and the page count goes down by 2"?
That's supposed to be
smart software in 2016?
Yeah, right!
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Originally Posted by kguil
5) I prefer my method to ADE.
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Good luck dealing with Jon's objections, then. I fully side with Jon on this – if
fake page numbers are to be used at all in Marvin, definitely go for ADE-style, which already enjoys some support across various platforms, as Jon explained.
As always, I hope you will reconsider your position on this, Kris. Otherwise, I will need to borrow Jon's phrase, that this will be (another) major flaw in Marvin that will "drag it down the toilet".
