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Originally Posted by tiltowait
* The weird, phony "pages" metric it uses. The hardcover copy of the book I'm reading is 464 pages; the Nook says 440, so it's simply wrong. Why can't it just tell me how many screens the book will be?
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Which edition of the hardcover? I have two editions of a reference text (one Canadian, one American) with identical text contents. One edition has 522 pages, the other has 578 pages (difference in the font and margins used plus one using the Roman numeral convention for the first portion and the appendices seem to be the cause). I won't even get into the page numbering differences between hardcover, trade paperback and paperback editions. Nor will I suggest that B&N could update their firmware to allow epub3 fixed-layout documents (or how to make your epub into a PDF without really trying
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At least, the 440 pages generated by the Adobe synthetic page map algorithm is consistent across devices regardless of screen size, margins, font size, etc. so a reference to page 312 will mean the same to anyone opening the same epub on any device using the Adobe algorithm. Your page number per screen lacks that consistency.
And what exactly do you mean by simply wrong? Asking that the ebook should match the page numbers in a random pbook version? See the Adobe page-map, the epub2 PageList and epub3 page-list.nav for more information on how to do this.