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Old 04-12-2011, 12:36 PM   #1
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I thought the 3.1 software update gave us page numbers?
One book I read now displays page numbers, while another book, a lonely planet travel guide still does not.

Is the display of page # still book dependent? or should the 3.1 software update have enabled page # on all books?
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Old 04-12-2011, 12:39 PM   #2
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It gives you the ability to view page numbers... if the book provides them. Which isn't universal, yet.
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It gives you the ability to view page numbers... if the book provides them. Which isn't universal, yet.
You can always process your books through Calibre, which will add page numbers for you when you add the book to your kindle via Calibre, it's not perfect, but still pretty good. Don't forget to press the menu button on the Kindle to view your page numbers.
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Old 04-25-2011, 05:40 AM   #4
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What I find weird is that now only percentage shows, as opposed to before, when you had both locations and percentage. Now I have to press 'Menu' to see the locations. Makes no sense, locations are much better than just percentage, a book with >500 pages has a lot of "page-turns" per 1%. Why did they change that?
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You can always process your books through Calibre, which will add page numbers for you when you add the book to your kindle via Calibre, it's not perfect, but still pretty good. Don't forget to press the menu button on the Kindle to view your page numbers.
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Except for the books I get from Amazon, I send all my books to my K3 via calibre/email. I do not have any page numbers. How does this work?

I'm using calibre 0.7.57 and the latest K3 firmware.
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You'd probably have to do a mobi to mobi conversion for the page number support to be added. I'm not sure if sending via email will transfer the necessary files for page numbering. But with USB transfers, just make sure the Kindle device interface plugin is configured to deal with the page numbering files.
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Perhaps that is the difference. I only connect with USB when I need to send a file too large to email. Ah well, it's not that big a deal to me one way or the other.
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For some reason you will only get the page numbers through Calibre if you transfer it via USB....
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What I find weird is that now only percentage shows, as opposed to before, when you had both locations and percentage. Now I have to press 'Menu' to see the locations. Makes no sense, locations are much better than just percentage, a book with >500 pages has a lot of "page-turns" per 1%. Why did they change that?
I agree, but I guess a lot of people just bitched about locations, so they thought they should remove them.

All I can say is try emailing that kindle feedback and complain about the missing locations, and maybe they will change it back.
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Better yet, maybe they'll give us a software option how we'd like to see the display.
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Better yet, maybe they'll give us a software option how we'd like to see the display.
This makes the most sense to me.
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For some reason you will only get the page numbers through Calibre if you transfer it via USB....
The page numbers are in a .apnx file. calibre doesn't email this, and probably Amazon will not deliver it as an email attachment even if it did, but if you transfer over USB it will copy it there. And of course if you are using Kindle browser to download you won't be able to download the .apnx that way, either.
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