Thread: Crazy page lengths
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Old 01-31-2024, 11:13 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by LDB View Post
Looking at one of today's free books, At War With Women. It shows page length 448 pages. That's a few. The same book, free on Kindle, shows page length of 278 pages. It's 60% more pages on Kobo!?!?
Perhaps you might have noticed that (at least on Amazon.ca), the page count shows as Print length:274 pages and Page numbers source ISBN:1501767747 while the Kobo page count is basically what you would see when reading the ebook when synced from Kobo as a kepub so 448 pages. Downloading to ADE 4.51 as an epub says 332 pages and running Adobe's synthetic page number algorithm says 334 pages.

And people wonder why I break out in near hysterical laughter any time someone stands up and starts raving about true page numbers in a reflowable ebook.

OTOH, all 4 versions shows ~122K words and looking at the pagelist, all of them show 267 text pages and a variable # of pages labelled with iii,iv,...ix,x,xii.
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