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Originally Posted by rcentros
As I mentioned in my post, I want my eBooks to correlate (relatively) to my printed books. Never any mention of my printing any of my eBooks.
It doesn't matter if they're same media or not — up until this "page" per screen firmware change (which happened less than a month ago) eBook page numbers correlated (roughly) to printed book page numbers. It's not a revolutionary idea to want that standard to continue.
I don't care how many screen taps it takes to get to the end of the book. I'm not a computer, I'm a human being. I want a system that correlates to a common standard. Consistent page numbering (even in eBooks) was a standard until less than a month ago — it still is everywhere but in Kobo Land.
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It’s nice that you want this but again ebooks are different media, and sorry but it does matter. There hasn’t been a common standard. Kindle did it one way, Nook did it another way, Kobo another, ADE yet another and I’m sure the list goes on. Literally none of them were the same. As to your correlates between ebooks and physical books again they are different media just because you wish it wasn’t so doesn’t change the fact that they are and that it has ramifications which do matter. A page has never and likely will never exist in an ebook. Just as a page doesn’t exist in an audiobook.
But ok let’s examine just how much adjusting the font size actually affects it. Knocking the font size down in a kepub by four notches which was a not insignificant change in the displayed size resulted in the “loss” of 80 “pages” which is flat out laughable when compared to the difference between a hardcover and mass market. Are you incapable of making that kind of adjustment for getting a sense of how long an ebook is vs a physical? And if so how do you manage to live with hardcover, trade paperback, extended mass market, mass market, and the various odd size books all of which also can use different fonts, line spacing, margins etc from one another which would affect how much content is actually there.
You cling to a “standard” which even in a static media has rather drastic variation. And you want to impose this “standard” on a different media which doesn’t adhere to any of the core requirements of the connections between the other media and this “standard”.
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Yep, but I don't still have the same relative page count, which is I want.
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Then use ePub and turn on ADE. Your Kobo still reads them and the ADE page number still exists. Though even Adobe doesn’t seem to like it.