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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Hasn't bothered me much with Don Quixote and that's a lot longer, then again I'm the kind of book reader who dog ears the pages, rests my coffee cup on an open page, breaks the spine and generally reads for the content of the writing rather than how it's laid out (although I do love a good front cover  ) |
I get distracted by inconsistencies in layout as a result page numbers not in the same place on every page bugs the crap out of me. That and the lack of justification. If there was an option to turn off the page numbers I'd be more tempted by epub but there isn't. To me having page numbers ghosting over the text of the story is unprofessional looking and would never pass muster in a published paper novel. I'm not sure why it's considered okay in ebooks though?
Also, I hate losing screen space for page numbers when there is already a bar at the bottom of my PRS-505 to display page numbers and is far more accurate than the numbers on the side margin. I want to know how many screen turns I have left. I think most people reading on their devices are reading fiction not referrence manuals.
Someday it may become more common to read reference ebooks and at that point they should still have the option to turn off the margin page numbers because that would actually help both sets of users without annoying anyone.