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Originally Posted by rcentros
Really it's calling these arbitrary numbers "pages" that bothers me. Call them anything else and it probably wouldn't be as big a deal, but they would still be useless. Kindle used "location" numbers (still does on some books) instead of page numbers. You couldn't correlate them with page numbers either, but at least they were consistent and the location on one Kindle equaled the location on another (even if you changed font size or face).
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On this I think we can agree. There is no page for ebooks and calling them pages is disingenuous. Let us instead switch to a static system which accurately reflects ebooks properly. I’ve suggested word count which would still give you the correlation to printed books, 500,000 words for a doorstop novel equipment. It gives me something that isn’t just pulled out of a hat and slapped on because some executive wanted to keep pages around. And it gives academics a precise way to reference a part of a book. I suppose we can even call it All Datapoint Exceptions or something so Jon can keep using ADE.