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Originally Posted by todiwan
I see. I thought that ebook files (mobi, epub, etc.) had clear page separation as physical books, or .pdf files do, and that Calibre was just messing with it and using its own algorithms to come up with a "more useful" number or something. So, that is not the case?
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Correct.
ADE uses 2048 characters of text and declares that to be a page.
Kobo I believe has multiple settings, at least one of which shows you how many screenfuls of text there are, which of course changes every time you change the font size.
Kindles just show "location" numbers.
An EPUB or MOBI/AZW3 can come with a
Page-map or
PageList which corresponds to the pagenumbers from a physical (paper) copy, e.g. Amazon's "Real Page Numbers". Amazon also tells you which ISBN edition it is mapped according to.
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Basically the only reason I'm asking this, is because I started using the "goodreads" site, which has a feature that tracks pages. Unless the ebooks I'm reading have the same amount of pages as it says on goodreads (which I assumed would be true by default), I can't use that feature. But it's not a big deal anyway, I'm just trying to make things a bit more convenient for myself.
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That is geared towards people who read on paper.
Feel free to guesstimate, or something.
Or buy from Amazon, since Amazon provides page mappings which work with their reader apps/devices.
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Is there a way to make it so that the field displays a percentage (which shows when you hover anyway) instead of a "X / Y"?
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I don't *think* so. (But I could be wrong.)
Maybe in the upcoming/inprogress calibre v3 rewrite it will get an option.