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Originally Posted by theducks
Count Pages is about Analysis (you choice of rule). My main use is size comparison (That is words, not screen fulls). I use the same setting for all books in Calibre. That way I get an idea (that file size alone does not give) of how much reading this one has compared to that one
With user allowed font and other changes, counting SCREEN FULLS (?pages) is 90% meaningless.
Please tell me that you are not one of those selfpubers that plays with line spacing and unusual margins to make the work seem bigger than it really is  |
No, I'm not. I honestly use page count to make sure I get things read as reading is very slow for me and I'm currently attending the University of Kentucky and have a lot to read. Using the page numbers gives me a way to break up reading a chapter for class evenly across several days. I know it isn't that big of a deal and apparently Apple doesn't use the ADE standard way to determining page numbers (which from what I read, many readers do) as a way of producing consistent page numbers across devices.
My hope has been to add the data to a needed EPUB via Calibre, but that hasn't been as effective as I would like. The main reason I gravitated toward Apple was due to not only place syncing but syncing of my highlights and notes in a given book. This, of course, isn't required exactly but does make my life a lot easier. I know that if I purchase a book via the Kindle that Whisper Sync would do this but it doesn't do this for books that I have gotten from other platforms -- which I have a lot of, as I used to have a Nook before I got a Google Tablet and then got a bunch from the Play Store and only in the last year or so even have a Kindle device. Many of my textbooks that DO offer a digital edition offer it in a wide variety of formats which makes consistency of device difficult.
Hence, why I have Calibre, to manage my digital library. Since I have the iPad, it's nice that if I can get whatever book to EPUB I can just upload them all into Books on my Mac and it syncs to my devices. I think I can do this in Google Play as well but I don't really like their reader, though it is functional.
Anyway -- long winded on what I'm trying to do.