Turning pages in epub (remar)

DemosStogios · 01-10-2015, 02:26 PM

Hello

First of all I would like to say a big thank you for offering such a great program.

Now, on to some of my experience while reading epubs in Calibre. My comment has to do with the "Paged mode" in the viewer, where I am eyeing the way Calibre handles the page turning. As we all know, it can be either plain "back, forward", where a single page goes on at a time, or "Previous\Next Page", where all two pages are replaced with other two pages . My main remark is that I can see Calibre not allowing any *blank* page being the last page (or the right one on a paged state). This has some implications where the book reaches end of chapter (page-break I assume?). I will give an example:

A chapter has, say, 8 pages. So we have 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and on to the new chapter.
But, if a chapter consists of 9 pages, look what is happening: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 8-9. You can see that when we reach the end of the chapter, the book advances only one page, which is sort of disrupting.

So, to conclude, could the developers change that behavior (possibly by allowing a blank page being shown at the end of a chapter - if needed)? Of course you could say that Calibre is open source, so I could go on and make the changes my self, but I am reading books in Calibre ATM in order to do just that, to learn programming

greets

kovidgoyal · 01-10-2015, 10:39 PM

No, there are technical reasons why that is not possible, having to do with how paged mode works internally.

DemosStogios · 01-11-2015, 07:08 PM

Hello,

I was "afraid" that that was the case here, as the same happens in EPUBReader for Firefox, pointing to an external engine handling the Epub mechanism. Anyway this is not the end of the world (

) as I can use Flow mode which works flawlessly and I actually find it maybe better overall than Paged mode (nor that I do have an option as it seems

).

greets

01-10-2015, 02:26 PM	#1
DemosStogios Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: Windows PC	Turning pages in epub (remar) Hello First of all I would like to say a big thank you for offering such a great program. Now, on to some of my experience while reading epubs in Calibre. My comment has to do with the "Paged mode" in the viewer, where I am eyeing the way Calibre handles the page turning. As we all know, it can be either plain "back, forward", where a single page goes on at a time, or "Previous\Next Page", where all two pages are replaced with other two pages . My main remark is that I can see Calibre not allowing any blank page being the last page (or the right one on a paged state). This has some implications where the book reaches end of chapter (page-break I assume?). I will give an example: A chapter has, say, 8 pages. So we have 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and on to the new chapter. But, if a chapter consists of 9 pages, look what is happening: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 8-9. You can see that when we reach the end of the chapter, the book advances only one page, which is sort of disrupting. So, to conclude, could the developers change that behavior (possibly by allowing a blank page being shown at the end of a chapter - if needed)? Of course you could say that Calibre is open source, so I could go on and make the changes my self, but I am reading books in Calibre ATM in order to do just that, to learn programming greets

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01-10-2015, 10:39 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,343 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No, there are technical reasons why that is not possible, having to do with how paged mode works internally.

01-11-2015, 07:08 PM	#3
DemosStogios Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: Windows PC	Hello, I was "afraid" that that was the case here, as the same happens in EPUBReader for Firefox, pointing to an external engine handling the Epub mechanism. Anyway this is not the end of the world ( ) as I can use Flow mode which works flawlessly and I actually find it maybe better overall than Paged mode (nor that I do have an option as it seems ). greets

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