Pages left in chapter - Page 2

shalym · 05-08-2025, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

My personal preference is % followed by pages. I find that time left either in book or chapter is just too inaccurate. Even after the number of pages I've read on any of my ereaders (Kindle or Kobo), the firmware does not seem happy with my reading speed. Statistics like you have read 62% of the book in 48 minutes and have 4 hours left are pretty risible.

Interesting...I've never seen that happen when I'm reading. Maybe it's just because you read so fast, it can't keep up?

Shari

DNSB · 05-09-2025, 12:25 AM

I find there seems to be no adaptive capability in the reading speed used. So if you read faster than the average reader, the number do not match up. Since my reading speed is considerably higher than the average English reading silently speed of ~250WPM, it's very often that I see those ridiculous numbers. The book I'm currently reading on my Sage says that I am on page 635 of 702 (synced kepub so page per screen, Adobe synthetic pages numbers says 304 pages) or 89%, I've been reading for 1hr 12 minutes and it is going to take me 45 minutes to finish the book. The book has 118K words. I tend to skip the opening blurbs and closing blurbs so my guess is closer to 10 minutes left.

The results when reading on my Paperwhite are very similar which is why I suspect Amazon and Kobo of using the average reading speed without any adaptive corrections.

Edemen · 05-13-2025, 12:08 PM

Hello
I installed software 5.18.1 on my Paperwhite 6 SE and now in Calibre it is not possible to send the number of pages, neither in the built-in Calibre nor in Count Pages.

The option does not appear at all in "configure device".
Is there any way to fix this?

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05-09-2025, 12:25 AM	#17
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,117 Karma: 168983734 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I find there seems to be no adaptive capability in the reading speed used. So if you read faster than the average reader, the number do not match up. Since my reading speed is considerably higher than the average English reading silently speed of ~250WPM, it's very often that I see those ridiculous numbers. The book I'm currently reading on my Sage says that I am on page 635 of 702 (synced kepub so page per screen, Adobe synthetic pages numbers says 304 pages) or 89%, I've been reading for 1hr 12 minutes and it is going to take me 45 minutes to finish the book. The book has 118K words. I tend to skip the opening blurbs and closing blurbs so my guess is closer to 10 minutes left. The results when reading on my Paperwhite are very similar which is why I suspect Amazon and Kobo of using the average reading speed without any adaptive corrections.

05-13-2025, 12:08 PM	#18
Edemen Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jan 2018 Device: Kobo Clara BW, PW5, Pocketbook HD3	Hello I installed software 5.18.1 on my Paperwhite 6 SE and now in Calibre it is not possible to send the number of pages, neither in the built-in Calibre nor in Count Pages. The option does not appear at all in "configure device". Is there any way to fix this?