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Originally Posted by scottjl
how much do you really lose? how many more page turns does it translate into? you lose and gain pages when you change font sizes too. the concept of a page in an eBook doesn't make a lot of sense when you think about it, there is no actual paper, so why would there be a page? documents should be broken up into chapter/section with a ToC referring to the chapter/section header. may take another 50-100 years but one day pages will be history.
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Call it a page or call it a section, same difference - you need some way to break up the content. I think the concept of page numbers is very relevant - especially when trying to compare the length of one book to another.
With such large margins in ibooks for iphone, the line of actual text is so short I actually find it a little difficult to read (though I'm sure I will get used to it).
I bet there would be a significant savings in page turns if they made all four margins smaller and got extended the page over the clock/battery.
A lot of the 'stuff' that works well on the ipad and gives it more of a 'book' feel, is superfluous on the iphone and contributes to the 'lost' space. Items such as displaying the title at the top of every page, the book 'spine' on the left margin and the illusion of multiple pages on the right margin.
For comparison, reading the same chapter in Stanza (same font and size) vs. iBooks, Stanza reads 22 pages, ibooks reads 25 - that is a significant enough difference for me over the course of 30 or so chapters.