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Originally Posted by issybird
Can I say how much I hate having each screen register as a page? It's a nuisance for navigation within a book when I've changed font size and it's worse than that when I switch devices and the second one hasn't synced (my purse reader, for example).Before, I could just remember my page number and go there.
ADE page numbers had the advantage of being consistent within a book, across devices and across my library as a whole, which let me estimate how much time I had left in a chapter and a book. As it turns out, I'm better at that than Kobo.
I'm generally not that fussy, but this is a major inconvenience. Kepubs have gone from having a meaningful page measure to one that's useless.  |
I agree that fixed page numbers were useful to switch between devices - though to be honest I always used percentage to do that and then moved around to reach the exact spot (it's more useful when you're alternating between ebooks and audiobooks). I think this is better for the casual user, though. I set my father's Kobo Aura to show page numbers for the entire book, and he's asked me at least twice or thrice during the years why the number didn't update every time he turned the page and if there was something wrong with it... as usual, we're the exception to the rule.