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Originally Posted by rcentros
Ridicule always helps in any argument, doesn't it? In the old scheme the original hardback might be 450 pages and the eBook might be 530 pages (numbers pulled out of a hat). No, not the same, but something that at least "correlates," a general idea of book length. With the screen-per-page scheme, change the font size and the page count can be anything, 200 pages to 4,000 pages. It's totally meaningless.
Why not offer the option to use the old system? A system not based on something as arbitrary as the number of words on a particular screen (depending on font size, or size of the screen).
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Because honestly the sooner we divorce ebooks from mirroring physical books the better IMO. It’s like transitioning from scrolls to bound books, the convention used to measure length doesn’t apply anymore. Fortunately we don’t still measure books as being inches or feet long.
Also just how many old options should we leave in? Over the years Kobo have removed and changed features that people liked. While some can be tweaked back with patches not all can be. So should Kobo just add more and more screens to the settings to accommodate all these things? And what about when these systems start to cause issues?
How often do you change the font size, line spacing or margins? I’d wager for most people it’s a set and forget thing, maybe some fiddling with size depending on circumstances but still not a frequent thing. So the 1 screen = 1 page would be relatively in changed.
Additionally with the old system there was a direct contradiction with the pages left in the chapter.