Thread: Page Numbers, Percentage, or nothing at all
View Single Post
Old 10-09-2019, 08:34 PM   #109
MGlitch
Wizard
MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.MGlitch ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 2,857
Karma: 22003124
Join Date: Aug 2014
Device: Kobo Forma, Kobo Sage, Kobo Libra 2
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Page numbers for a pBook is not a definitive system. You have different physical versions of the same book and you end up with different page numbers.

With the exact same eBook, I get the exact same page numbers using ADE page numbers no matter the screen size and all the other things that can be changed.

So which one works better? ADE page numbers of course.
I’m still waiting for you to show me a digital page in a physical world.

Until such a time any system used to measure a page in an ebook is arbitrary and meaningless. Especially since without modifying the ebook you have no way to know how accurate the ADE method is to giving you your vaunted book length.

Word count at least excludes any formatting used, and will net you a precise location in every format of the book. At best ADE can only hope to apply to ePub.

So ADE loses on accuracy, consistency across format, and measuring anything meaningful since a 1mb ebook could end up being shorter than a 512kb ebook.
MGlitch is offline   Reply With Quote