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Originally Posted by LoganK
I could be sold on the idea, but it doesn't seem like enough of a leap over the Digital Editions system to justify throwing out the existing, widespread software. And if we are going to define what a "paragraph" is, then some currently-available content would need to be converted to work with the new system.
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Since no one even knows what precisely the Digital Editions system is (it's certainly not file size based), this argument is moot. The real motivation for the ADE page based system is the digitisation of paper books that refer to content via page numbers. In fact, ADE supports a system whereby the creator of an EPUB file can specify an arbitrary page map (you can see this in action in calibre. calibre has conversion options to let you create the page map based on XPath expressions for detecting page boundaries). In any case, this is my last post on this subject, there have already been 3 previous discussions on page numbers in e-books and I'm starting to feel like I'm in a zombie movie where fresh waves of zombies just keep coming at me
(please don't take offense at the analogy, I don't mean to imply you're a zombie).