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Old 05-13-2009, 08:03 PM   #28
Amalthia
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Originally Posted by LoganK View Post
Is the problem that they are called "page numbers"? Is it the style issue of page numbers hanging off the right-hand side? If you include only percent (and we assume that you can "jump to %" in reader programs), would people be happier with "13.428%" instead of virtual page "190"? (I know Americans generally prefer whole numbers to percentages; I'm not sure about the rest of the world.)

What would you do better?

I like the way Sony handles page numbers with the LRF, RTF format already. I didn't see any need to add the page number on the story body itself. And if they were going to add it the bottom or top corner would have been a much better place, no matter where the page break happens within the story. The numbers really need to be away from the text. I prefer to know I'm page 400 out of 600....the percentages don't mean much to me at all.

Plus if I share the file I created with a friend I know if they are on size small I can tell them go to page...and it works. And if that doesn't work you can always tell them go to chapter...
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