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Originally Posted by EatingPie
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.
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You are blaming ADE, but the blame really should be put on Sony's implementation of ADE on the 300. On the 300 Sony displays page numbers in the right margin and does not allow text to be justified. However, on the 900 page numbers are not displayed in the right margin and text is justified. Other device manufacturers who use ADE have different implementations.
As for LRF, it is crap. It is a bloated file format that had super-wide margins on Sony readers and was not capable of being easily deDRMed. I'm glad this format is extinct.
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Originally Posted by EatingPie
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.
-Pie
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You argument is what the ancient Greeks would have called pathetic. From
pathos meaning emotion and not from
logos meaning knowledge. Hence in modern English
pathetic. Even a so-so professor will tear you a new one if you use that kind of pathetic argument within a paper.