05-07-2021, 11:03 AM | #1 |
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Kepub erratic numbering
I just took a very short video, hopefully I can upload it here, showing the whole book pages change from 156 of 310 to 159 of 310 on one page turn.
Nope, can’t upload it, invalid. Oh well, boring old photos will have to do instead. I know ePub has accurate numbers matched to the paper book, I don’t really care, I just thought such a noticeable jump was kind of funny. P.S. Reading in the sun and my Libra is still nice and cool, unlike my Oasis, which would fry in the sun then automatically switch off. |
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05-07-2021, 11:44 AM | #4 |
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Update - just moved on to the next chapter, and it also skipped three pages! I’m going to see if it does this for all my Kepubs. I don’t recall noticing it before though. I purchased it on my kobo, so no conversion at any stage.
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05-07-2021, 03:41 PM | #5 | |
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You have two options. 1. Ignore that KePub pages are wonky 2. Switch to ePub |
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05-08-2021, 12:06 AM | #6 | |
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I haven't noticed what you are reporting with kepubs. For epubs, skipping a page at the end of a chapter does happen. And if you page backward, the page does show. It has something to do with exactly where on the screen the page break would happen. For kepubs, some of the page calculation is done when the book is added to the device, some is done the first time it is opened and the rest as the book is read. I have an idea that the problem is something to do with the relative size of the internal files in the book. There is also an issue with what is in the ToC. In the past, when there was not a one-to-one relationship between the ToC and the internal files, there were some interesting problems. Most have been fixed, but, I think there are still some problems. Unfortunately, without seeing the book, it is hard to work out what is actually happening. |
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The current kepub I’m reading is doing the same thing, except with only two pages skipped per chapter. It is a side loaded omnibus I converted from the kindle format. I could describe the behavior as ‘consistently erratic’. The only thing that slightly annoys me is obviously the page discrepancy becomes gigantic when reading the omnibus editions. I need to have the zoomable images and stats though, I need my stats. I live in hope maybe one day kobo will fix their kepubs. |
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05-10-2021, 04:47 PM | #9 |
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The whole book page numbers are, be necessity, an estimate. (Otherwise, the entire book would have be rendered to re-calculate them every time the users adjusts any of the page layout options.) Most books are, internally, formatted such as 1 internal file in the epub makes up 1 chapter, so chapter breaks are where the Kobo's page count estimate is more likely to meet reality.
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