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View Poll Results: How important are page numbers in Kindle Books? | |||
Very important - I tend to avoid those books and forget the author | 16 | 8.56% | |
Nice to have - I use them if they are there | 57 | 30.48% | |
Not important at all - get over yourself. | 114 | 60.96% | |
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03-28-2016, 03:07 PM | #61 | |
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03-28-2016, 03:38 PM | #62 |
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03-28-2016, 05:01 PM | #63 | |
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Same for references to other parts of the book. An example of this would be "see the section on widgets, page 27" in a paper book. In an ebook, it would say "see the section on widgets" and rather than list a page number (which might not mean the same thing across all readers) the word "widgets" is a link. Shari |
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03-28-2016, 05:02 PM | #64 | |
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03-28-2016, 08:07 PM | #65 |
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I did not realize that. It seems kind of silly to me.
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03-28-2016, 11:00 PM | #66 | |
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You've written an all-encompassing book about dogs. Right? You have a lovely article about Irish Setters. So, in the index, you will find these various entries: Under I: Irish Setters Under S: Setters, Irish Under Sporting Dogs: Setters, Irish AND, Under Sporting Dogs-->Setters, you'll have: Irish Setters However, you have ONE article or entry for Irish Setters, right? Jane comes along, and picks up the book. Curious, she starts thumbing through the Index. She clicks the entry for Sporting Dogs-->Irish Setters. So, now: how does she get BACK to where she was in the Index? You're thinking, "well, stupid, she hits the BACK button." But not all readers have back buttons. If you've created the Article, with now 4 inbound links TO it, how does the reader get back where they WERE, before they clicked the outbound link? This causes issues in both directions. This happens with any type of reference information in a book that may have multiple inbound links. There's no good way to get your reader, reliably, back to where she inended to go. After all, you can't put return links in the single word, right? So, what do you do? The only realistic choice is to put something like this: [Back to Irish Setters][Back to Setters, Irish][Back to Sporting Dogs-->Setters, Irish][Back to Sporting Dogs-->Setters-->Irish Setters] ...in the body of the book, for each and every piece of text (word, sentence, section, etc.) that has these types of a) inbound links or b) has multiple inbound links from an index or some other resource elsewhere in the book. I think we can all agree that that would be a bit annoying, after a while--right? More importantly--since arguably, it wouldn't be that hard for the reader to tap TOC, go to the Index entry, and get back to where s/he was--this is ALSO true for cross-referencing inside the body of the book, as well. If you have multiple spots in the book cross-linked to another entry, you have the same exact problem. If you don't make eBooks for a living, or don't indulge in logic puzzles, or create indices, the "proper way to create indices in eBooks" sounds simple. It's easy to do poorly. It's not remotely simple to do correctly. Hitch |
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03-29-2016, 02:02 AM | #67 |
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There are page numbers in ebooks!?!?! My ereader doesn't have pages, so, why should I want to show page numbers?
I can understand pagenumbers in PDF files, but not in reflowing electronic books... |
03-29-2016, 08:02 AM | #68 | |
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If there was an electronic manual that wasn't an unsearchable pdf then searching would beat an index anyway. Or at least would if car manufacturers didn't make up words or use one manual to cover every model - Apparently my sunroof (that I don't have) has an anti-pinch function. |
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03-29-2016, 08:22 AM | #69 |
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My primary use for page numbers is for referencing. If I'm writing an academic paper, I need to reference my sources, and the Kindle's ability to match the page numbers of a paper edition of the book is absolutely critical for that. Of course, that's probably not something that's relevant to many people.
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03-29-2016, 08:34 AM | #70 |
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Does anyone remember the Beverly Hillbillies show? I feel about pages like Jethro Bodine felt about his cereal bowl. "How many bowls you had?" "Just the one. I've filled it 3 times, but I've only had the one bowl."
I just have the one page, I just happen to keep getting new words on that page. And thank goodness I'm past needing to make references for footnotes and bibliographies. |
03-29-2016, 08:48 AM | #71 |
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Jethro Bodine was born with a full set of choppers.
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03-29-2016, 10:09 AM | #72 | |
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03-29-2016, 10:28 AM | #74 |
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03-29-2016, 10:30 AM | #75 |
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What is with all the permutations still being indexed??
All my readers include a search (I do wish there was a scope: section or all ) Setters Breeds Sporting |
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