I could manage the pages on screen thing (it does show up elsewhere, so why not on the reading screen), but not being able to go to a particular page is still a problem - yes I could use bookmarks, but that seems like an awkward workaround for something like a slider. Moon + is so rich in other features that it just seems odd not to have something like that. That's why there are so many ereading applications, so we can each find one we like. Bookari is great for me, except for the 10% or so of ebooks that Bookari can't read, that the other ereaders can.
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Originally Posted by stumped
it would not be an " update" it would be a backward step, IMHO, to adopt a different , static page definition
surely the moon+ author is entitled to make a deliberate design choice: that in his app a " page" =" a single full screen of the device in use with the current font, margin etc settings."
why shoudl he have to "update" to what i think is in inferior definition of " page" , based on an arbitrary character count ; that definition, as used in adobe based renderers leads to the silly situation where a "page" goes on for 3 3/4 screens, then changes part way through screen 4. how is that better? I like seeing how many more screens will take me to a chapter end.
"page" is a paper book concept, "screens" is a better thing to count , and that is what moon+ counts, one chapter at a time
ok so a side effect of Moon's choice is that you cannot see the number of (adobe definition ) "pages" in a book in the screen footer. That's the trade off, and those who simply must see that at on every screen are welcome to use a different reader app.
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