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Originally Posted by davidfor
Were did I say you should "use epubs"? I was pointing out that your blanket statement that Kobo only uses per-screen page numbering was not true. The full-book page counting method has only changed for kepubs, nothing else.
But, why can't you use epubs for you library books? They come from Overdrive, so you can download them using ADE and add them to the device. Yes, more steps, but, if the Adobe page numbering is important to you, then you can do it.
But, if the point is to get a relative length of the books, there are other sources for page or word counts. Goodreads, Kobo and Amazon show them. Some non-English have them as well. And, in any case, if you open the book and change the font settings to your preferred ones, the page count shown is comparable to any other kepub opened on the same sized device with the same settings.
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The main reason I bought the Kobo in the first place was to have a reader that could get library books directly after my old Sony lost that ability. If I wanted to sideload I could have just kept using the Sony. And at the time I bought the Kobo it was still using ADE numbers.
One advantage of the ADE numbers over screen counts (or paper books) was that book length could be compared no matter the font size, line spacing, etc.
I do set fonts to a similar size in every book I read but I can never be sure it's exactly the same as the previous book. And changing the font size up or down by even one increment can change the screen/page count by 50 + pages.
Of course this is all a very first-world problem..... The only reason I brought it up in this thread is in case it's important to someone considering Kobo vs Tolino. Probably lots of people don't care at all and wish we'd stop talking about it
