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Old 04-10-2020, 10:40 AM   #73
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Sorry, but that is another mistake. Kobo never use the Adobe page counting method for kepubs. Their calculation was based on 320 words per page. In my experience, that gave a page count at east 25% higher than the Adobe page count for the same book.


And, it is very easy to screw up those page counts. The algorithm is based on the compressed size of the internal files it's not hard to produce a valid book that gives interesting page count. Having said that, I do use it when calculating the page count in calibre. As you say, it is a useful comparison. But, it would make more sense to drop it and use the word count. I need to train myself in understanding how long a 100,000 word book is.
Thought I'd read somewhere that it was ADE pages - guess that was wrong.

Yes, if they would list word count that would be a more reliable method across all e-readers once we got used to it.
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