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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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.
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Yeah, but we know the difference between a 500 page book (novel) and a 200 page book (romance, western, etc.). I've got a nine book series I bought from Kobo. The print length is 2,828 pages (when adding all nine books). The old way Kobo handled KePub page numbering resulted in 2,744 "pages." (So fairly close, not exact, correlation.) Now that same series (in my standard sized font, is 6,946 "pages" (screens)). But if I use the smallest font size it's 1,523 "pages" — the largest font-size produces a "page" count of 82,836. In other words, KePubs "page" count has become completely worthless.
You may be in favor of "divorcing" eBook page counts from paper book page counts, but I'm not. I still read both eBooks and printed books and I like consistency, or at least relative consistency. An arbitrary screen "page" count just isn't going to hack it for me. I'll go a different direction.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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?
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In my opinion, the meaningless "change with the whiff of the wind" screen "page" count
SHOULD be the option, not the old system that at least correlated (relatively) with printed books. Again, the new "page" count system is meaningless because so-called "page" counts can morph into almost any number.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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.
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Actually, I usually change the font size at night, when my eyes are tireder. But this is really beside the point. The fact that page counts change when the font sizes change makes the whole concept of a "page" count worthless.