Thread: What exactly is a location
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Old 03-23-2009, 01:43 PM   #11
Alisa
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy View Post
Even "paragraph" can be a fuzzy concept, depending on how the book is formatted. Some "paragraphs" could be created by line breaks, or paragraph tags, etc. Jumping to a location is far easier programmatically than trying to calculate where you are in a chapter and paragraphs. Ebooks are more like scrolls than books with physical pages.
It's not fuzzy if you build it into the format.
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