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Originally Posted by rcentros
Got it. Thanks! I was just blind. It works on both the PW3 and my Voyage. Always a whole number or x.5. (Never any other fraction.) Every ten pages or so it'll jump from x.5 to the next x.5 (skipping of the whole number). I guess it rounds up. I don't know how much work this is, but I like it.
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I think I need to clarify a bit.
The only differences between this book and normal (real book) page numbering is that
there are twice as many page number anchors in the text and in the references (page-map or pagelist). Half are exactly the same as usual and half have been added in between. That is why readers that count page references think there are twice as many pages. The devices are not doing anything fancy, and I am not trying to trick them into doing anything. The trick is that the page name is somewhat arbitrary, so it turns out that "23.5" works. When the epub is converted to kindle format with kindlegen everything works, including goto page 17.5
In principle finer divisions can be used. I think quarter pages would be a practical limit.
I do think that an ordinary apnx could be rewritten to be divided arbitrarily (but fixed amount) between existing pages. 0.1 page increments might be nice. Such a book/apnx pair could
NOT be converted bto EPUB since the book text would not have fractional page targets in that case.
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Originally Posted by rcentros
On the three ePub devices I've tried — a Tolino Shine 2, Nook Glowlight Plus (2015) and Sony PRS-T2, each get pretty much the same result. They all "double" the page numbers (557 pages instead of 562). The Tolino and Nook then always use a whole page number. At the "standard" font size, each screen tap changes the page number. Bigger fonts result in the number staying the same for more than one screen tap, smaller fonts result in page jumps with screen taps. (41 to 44, etc.) — these are at the extreme settings. The T2 does its "thing" with page numbers. Where it straddles a page it'll have something like 34-35 (it very rarely lands on a whole number). But like the others, it doubles the page number (556 instead of 557?).
The ePub information is probably all useless but I thought you might be interested in the results.
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It's useful and interesting to me and made me realize my epub devices were not counting screens, but adding up all the "pages" which is double. I was confused because my devices usually take about 2 screens for each page.