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Originally Posted by issybird
That's a major dismissal, a wave of your hand. How? Would it be as easy? As useful? Again, I just want something that measures text in meaningful increments across all my books.
Or, again, "I'm hung up on terminology and I have no use for them; end of conversation." Because my answer was specific in regard to value and you pulled out a prolix "That's stupid," without offering an alternative.
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You seem to be saying "I want ebook locations to be larger than Amazon's and I want to call them pages." OK fine. Which of us is hung up on terminology?
That sure is not what many others are asking for.
As for the non-end-matter stuff, if THAT's what the conversion is to be about (and it's pretty clear that it NOT in this thread overall, it's just one part of it) then, sure, I could see a poll on that and even getting together as a community to ask for it in ebooks, or even in ereader (mark you own start and end whether the book supports it or not, like the a/b button on tape decks)*. It's been discussed, and at the high level, it's a matter of implementing a "start" and "end" tag of some kind to measure progress between.
The exact manner in which that progress is divided and shown ("pages," "locations," percentage, bar graph, etc) is not directly related to that idea, but that is what seems to be the subject of this thread. Don't conflate the two and claim they are one and the same.
Also, are you saying that ADE pages have that feature already? I don't use an ADE/epub reader, and I don't know. I thought ADE pages worked just like Kindle locations, but they were merely 1024 chars in length or something?
*ETA: Maybe everything we're talking about really would be better implemented as a feature of readers and apps, not of the books. How about the feature to designate any amount of displayed content as a "page" and any point as the start or end? That should satisfy everyone except for the "the pages must always match a paper book" set.