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Originally Posted by 93terp
I guess in the end I'd rather have the series info over page numbers!  |
Well the real choice comes to reading progress/last page read sync between devices vs custom/fake page numbers. You can't have both (for non-Amazon books). Not until someone takes time to update
APNX generator plugin (to make it use value from #pages custom column), then you could have both by USB connecting your Kindle to PC after downloading the books from Cloud/Archive and then generating apnx files. Similar to how some people use (python?) script to generate cover thumbnails for PDOCs that are delivered as azw3, post-download extra step.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
As for page numbers:
I happen to disagree about whether they are a good thing.  As far as I am concerned, they are only good for academic citation that needs to be mapped to a paper book... which means that unless you have a publisher-generated Page-map/ PageList the page numbers will be wrong.
IMHO, the Kindle's "Time Left To Read" feature and the percentage read indicator is superior for the purpose of seeing where you are in the book. |
As the saying goes: "different strokes for different folks"
I disagree with you disagreeing
Man can do finite number of
;ReadingTimeReset before realizing that the timer feature doesn't work consistently enough.
My reading speed is constant enough that when combined with consistent page numbers (using "number of characters" option for Page Count plugin) gives much better "time left" estimate. Most importantly it doesn't stop working if and when I stop reading without putting Kindle to sleep mode or fast page couple of pages backwards, or jump shortly to some chapter or glossary section at the end of the book. It always the case of doing simple math: number of pages until the end * 2 minutes.
Also my use case for page numbers is primarily for answering "what's the length of next chapter" (and "should I go to sleep now or read one more chapter?") because I mostly read at night. Percentage number without extra context (like how long is the book, as in number of pages... I don't want to have to always remember book's page length) doesn't tell me much. And for "chapter length" via checking percentage number I would have to first jump to the next chapter and see the number, go back to where I was, subtract the numbers and then remember how does percentage number correlate to "number of pages"; while with page numbers pressent I just have to show "Go To" menu for 1 second. Or I could skip the "correlation part" if I would use "time left in chapter" value, but still have to go back and fort chapter navigation to glance at 2 values.
Then there is the aesthetic effect of having nice page numbers in "Go To" instead of location number. Page numbers <3
It veeery jarring and unsatisfying experience every time when I have to read something quickly delivered using PDocs Archive... especially when I get old mobi delivered: combination of FONT_RAMP thingy not being in effect AND not having page numbers AND not having soft hyphens added always takes me to the very edge of having a hissy fit