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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I live to entertain.  |
Keep your day job, because you fail miserably in that regard.
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Originally Posted by ekbell
I happen to like knowing how many 'page' turns particular book or chapter will have (how many times will I be paging forward?).
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Of course – that's the common-sense, everyday reader's use of pages,
not for the outlandish, geeky purpose of cross-referencing them to other layout settings, devices, apps, or platforms. But don't you dare use common sense here in MobileRead forums – it's the geeks' playground here, scratching each other's backs, and common sense is decidedly frowned upon here.
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Originally Posted by ekbell
it would be nice to have a clear distinction between types of 'page' counts.
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Exactly. I have nothing against the current pseudo-"page" count method in Marvin, as long as it's not the
only one, because if it's the
only available page-count option, it constitutes an in-your-face internal conflict within Marvin itself, in that it calls pages in
chapters and pages in
books the same thing, but calculates them in radically different manners, on the
same reading device, using the
same layout settings,
within a single footer (!) on the
same screen. Really, what could be more glaringly unacceptable, from the point of view of software consistency?
