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Originally Posted by noonscoomo
page numbering sounds like an endless discussion. For txtr there are two aspects important. First the user should know where in the document he is and how "big" the document is. Second it should be possible to reference to a specific element of the document. The first part is a visual thing. No problem at all, just decide if you want to see it all the time or not. The second part has nothing to do with the first and is absolutely no problem with digital documents. Just reference to a position in the document, attach an annotation if you like and share that with others. The problem with this is, that it will not reference back to the (original?) paper document. For that you need to know meta information like the paperwork page count and how the content is spread over all the pages. This is a lot of work and cold be done automatically only if you have a digital document which is absolutely identical to the paper document (or maybe just a specific version of it). Question here is, if the worth of solving that specific problem is big enough to do all the work... We at txtr will be fine with the two digital soutions, if you need the analog as well, do it on you own with our sdk. ;-)
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For me, I'm not concerned on whether a page reference on an electronic document is the same as it is on the paper version. If I'm reading on my iLiad or Sony I won't be reading on a paper version. I know others will see this differently, but for me it's just important to know where I am in the document I'm reading. I would suggest looking at how Sony has implemented this.