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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
If you are in flow mode and you change font size, the viewer remembers its place exactly. Whatever was at the top of the page, remains at the top of the page after the font size change.
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I am beginning to see why calibre is making me crazy navigating. I find it to be erratic. I just tested the above statement. I am in flow mode (not pages), and have some text highlighted at top of screen. I went into viewer controls and changed font size several times, increased, decreased. It did as you said 3 times. the fourth time it took me back about 4 pages, ie I had to click toolbar> 'next page' 4 times to get the highlighted text back to top of screen. this may also explain my previously noted experience with 'something' causing font to shrink, with severe shift in location in book.
Another example: I have been trying to figure out what tapping on different places on the screen do. Now I know why I can't figure it out. Today I was noticing that (again flow mode) tapping on left side took me back a page (all according to 'position in book' I have set to show on bottom margin), tapping on right took me forward a page. 'ok that makes sense.' then suddenly, i find it doesn't matter where i tap, it takes me forward. Only way to go back is use toolbar 'previous page' or go to highlights and double click the highlight referred to previously. Other times I found myself back by many pages, though I can't remember what action preceded it. I can say it was a total surprise. (btw, toolbar>forward, or back buttons. what are they supposed to do?, I get no response from them)
Something is amiss here. I don't know if it is a bug in calibre, a bad install (I am on 4.9.13, but have had the same issues from 4.9.11), or some odd mismatch between this computer and calibre. Not having highlighting previously, I hadn't been using calibre to read, only convert to pdf. it was only after being informed about the beta that I started using it to read a few weeks ago. I'm sure, much to your chagrin.
edit: occurs to me that I could experiment with calibre on another computer, see if I get the same erratic responses. Let me know if you'd like me to do this.