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Old 05-28-2021, 11:31 AM   #9
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@DNSB, @kovidgoyal

Thank you for your replies.

What-is-visible-on-screen may be arbitrary, but what is within a single web page - compare the browser case - and is there nothing comparable in Calibre to a single web page? I thought there was, which is why, initially, I wrote of a 'page' displayed by Calibre. But I began to doubt that there were pages in Calibre, so I moved to speaking of what was visible on the screen. Yet, do eBooks not have pages?
As mentioned for the browser case, all the browsers I tested would search the entire web page not just the visible window. In the case of an ebook, the entire book is the equivalent of that web page.

As for ebooks having fixed pages? Fixed layout ebooks (PDF, fixed layout epub3 or Amazon's equivalent) do have pages which makes them fun to try to read on a device with a smaller display size. OTOH, pages and reflowable ebooks are not an item. If I change the font size, line spacing, margins, etc. the display window can show more or less text. Then I can get into the CSS and have even more fun.
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