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Old 05-07-2010, 07:06 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by dwanthny View Post
I could be wrong but I believe that ADE uses 1 page = 1024 bytes.

This doesn't equal the print edition but if everyone in a class is using the exact same ebook hopefully page 44 will be page 44 for everyone in the class regardless of what size font they're using.
I find the page number on the side a bunch of rubbish, and pure eye-sore. It even bleeds into the text some times... WTF? ADE is a load of crappiness right now, and I'm surprised it made it as a standard. LRF was skads better in terms of how it displays on the Reader.

That said...

Page numbers do not have to match up in a classroom setting. Every book has multiple editions, all with different page numbers: Hardcover, trade paperback, paperback, large print, etc. We should consider the eBook exactly the same thing: a different edition. It's absolutely fair to ask the prof. what chapter and state you have a different edition. And if you do a bibliography, you simply indicate the digital edition as well (it's been stated in every eBook I've bought).

Here's a great example of what I'm saying...

I was in a Bible study and the professor (UCLA Lit. prof.) actually said "page xyz if you're using the NIV." Well, except I had a different NIV than him -- and Zondervan is the only publisher -- and page xyz was definitely not a match (he gave the chapter/verse too).

So different editions are a part of life, and have always been. Trying to force eBooks to fit some artificial definition of pagination is just plain wrong.

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