Thread: Sick of Amazon Kindle books without Page Numbers...
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Old 03-02-2017, 11:20 PM   #279
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Does anyone have any better way of doing page numbers other than ADE? I don't care for the Kindle way as it requires a second file. ADE page numbers do not. Radius said it better that ADE page numbers are easier to deal with than locations.

Remember, the criteria for eBook page numbers has to be that changing settings cannot change the page numbers. So font, font size, line-height, margins, etc. cannot change the page numbers otherwise, the page number are worthless.
Doing better than ADE would be easy. Simply by using the uncompressed file size in the calculation would be better (want a book with more pages in it, change the compression level). Then, just using the actual text and not including the mark-up would be better (want a book with more pages in it, add some spans or add a classes to each tag).

Going better than that depends on the purpose of the page numbers. As a measure of how far I am through a book, then any method will be OK. To be able to tell someone to turn to page x, then all of them are rubbish as everything about the book has to be identical. In that case, it is better to do something like "Chapter 4, paragraph 10" or, "Go to chapter 4 and search for ...". The former is effectively what ADE, the calibre viewer and probably other ereaders and apps do under the covers for positions. If the purpose is to compare how long two books are, then word count is probably a better measure. But, as no-one can agree on how to count words, that is going to work just as well as counting pages.
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