08-22-2017, 11:03 AM | #1 |
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Can I jump to a specific *location*?
So I'm in a Kindle book, if I hit "bookmark" I see Loc 768.
I go to the next page and see it is at Loc 788. So it seems like if I GOTO Location 778, it should start (approximately) at the middle of what the page looked like from when I was at Loc 768, right? But no...it renders the same view as what I saw at location 768. In other words...location is supposed to be more precise than pages, yet it still "rounds" your desired GOTO location to a page of sorts? This is on Kindle Voyage and happens with multiple books, so apparently not a per-title issue. Anyone know how to do what I'm aiming at? (I'm basically wanting to get an exact link to an "exercise" in a book that I might refer to again in the future.) |
08-22-2017, 11:22 AM | #2 |
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Well have you tried going to location 558 since you know it jumps ahead? Just a thought.
I assume you are typing the location in the search box. |
08-22-2017, 11:55 AM | #3 | |
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(Jumping around within a book will sometimes result in different pagination, but that is more of a bug than a feature.) Added: Each location number corresponds to a specific point within the book's content. That point will fall on different paginated screens depending on the font size, margins, etc. selected by the reader. Last edited by jhowell; 08-22-2017 at 12:03 PM. |
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08-22-2017, 10:08 PM | #4 |
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It used to be that Kindle re-paginated all the time when you jumped to a new location. That was a problem, because it is a waste of computing power, and can be dis-orienting to readers. No doubt it still does this on older Kindles. Now jumps do not generally force re-pagination. You're only guaranteed that the location you are jumping to is somewhere on the page you wind up on.
One downside of the newer behavior is that there is no way to coerce repagination, e.g., to un-orphan an orphaned header or image caption (short of changing font or something like that). I used to do this by selecting the orphan, then 'Search this book' and select it in the search results, thereby jumping to the thing I'd selected, which would then be at the top of the page. But that in turn was just a workaround for the lack of orphan control. I don't think Kindle platform supports 'orphan' CSS, and certainly does not have heuristics to prevent orphans. Maybe some ePub systems do. Last edited by tomsem; 08-22-2017 at 10:24 PM. |
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