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Old 07-18-2019, 02:21 AM   #1662
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Originally Posted by Phil_C View Post
I'd like to see the footer contain both the total number of pages in the book AND the number of pages remaining in the current chapter. Simultaneously.
By a coincidence, something like this came up elsewhere recently, and I have been thinking about my preferences for progress displays in different places. And that has made me think of page counting.

Firstly, there are a couple of problems for Kobo to do this.

In epubs, they don't do per-chapter page counts. I don't know if that is a decision on their part, or that the Adobe RMSDK doesn't support it. Or whether it can be changed.

For kepubs, the per-chapter and per-book page counts use different algorithms. The per-chapter is the number of screens. The per-book is based on the word count (and for the record, the chapter graph in the stats is the word count). A page is 320 words per page which means the page division is similar to the Adobe version; it can cover multiple screens. That means if they simply displayed the two right now, the page numbers would change at different times (and can you imagine the bug reports here if this was the case?). So, they would probably have to decide on one algorithm or the other. And that prompts: Which version should they use?

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Originally Posted by Phil_C View Post
the number of pages remaining in the current chapter
Do you mean that literally? Do you want to see something like "5 pages left". The current per-chapter page count is still "Page 2 of 10" (to lazy to pull the device out of my bag to check exactly). Do you want a countdown to the end of the chapter? Or do you just want to see both the current chapter and book counts at the same time?

That one is a curiosity. The percent read increases. The time left decreases. Should the page count be how many left or how far from the start. I think I prefer the distance from the start, but, that might just be what I am used to. And for the page countdown, what do you put at the top of the page? "1 page left" doesn't seem right But, neither does "0 pages left". "Last page" would be better, but that just moves the problem to the page before that: "1 left" or "2 left" or "2nd last".

And what about the navigation bar? Currently for epubs it is full-book and kepubs it is chapter. Does the latter need to change?

I think I better stop. Just realised if we have "Last page", then the one before it is "Penultimate page". And obviously the one before that is "Antipenultimate page". I'm descending into absurdity.
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