10-07-2019, 12:56 PM | #46 |
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I don’t believe so, there’s a patch that swaps header and footer but I think it’s a 1:1 swap rather than allowing you to choose which bits go where. It might be possible to do what you want with a not yet made patch but I’d be slightly skeptical.
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10-07-2019, 01:01 PM | #47 |
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I used percentages as they are more accurate then anything else, until 4,18. Now i'm using progress bar.
As all can see everything is matter of self preference. |
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10-07-2019, 01:05 PM | #48 | |
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I don’t think anyone has belittled anyone else for their preference. We’ve all pointed out flaws in the various existing means of estimating the information presented. And as you say it’s up to us which flaw is more acceptable than the rest. That and trying to think tank a method without the flaws which have been pointed out. Which I will grant is likely to be tedious bordering on pointless for most folks here. But for some it’s a fun mental exercise or so I like to think. |
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10-07-2019, 01:50 PM | #49 | |
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PS. I just now see at kobopatch request thread there will be a new patch named "Swap reading header/footer " in v54. Good news! Last edited by adamslast; 10-07-2019 at 01:59 PM. |
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10-07-2019, 02:26 PM | #51 |
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Thankfully with Kobo you can have page number, percent, time left (if you read KePub), or nothing at all. So you can have what you want. Same goes with the header that displays the chapter progress.
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10-07-2019, 02:31 PM | #52 |
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I use everything.
I have a fixed page count put in by the Count Pages plugin. The Kindle shows this. It also shows percentage and time to read. The Kobo shows time to read, a screens_read / total_screens count, it has the page count put into the title of the book, and it shows the percentage. And the progress bar. |
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I was thinking about mapping a pBooks page numbers to an ePub. A lot of ePub come with page numbers in the code such as <a id="pg_125">. If someone would come up with a plugin to take those page numbers and create a page map then you'd get page numbers that match some pBook version.
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10-07-2019, 03:03 PM | #55 |
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10-07-2019, 03:10 PM | #56 |
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Count me as one of those who prefer fixed page numbers. Previously, epubs, kepubs, and even Pocket articles had roughly similar fixed "page" lengths. Now only the epubs still have fixed pages. Would love it if it were possible to patch things to show fixed pages for all again.
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10-07-2019, 04:15 PM | #57 | |
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10-07-2019, 04:44 PM | #58 |
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That patch moves the book title and book page count from the bottom of the screen to the top. Then the bottom will show chapter and chapter page count. So it still may not be what you are looking for.
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10-07-2019, 05:02 PM | #59 |
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I like fixed page numbers as well. If I convert a book in Calibre to ePub I can "sync" the book on a Kobo and a Tolino and a Sony (for example) just by going to the page number.
Does the KePub in 4.18 change page count depending on font size? (Testing... I see that it does — that's kind of weird.) |
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Assume we both have the same reader with the same settings such that the same text on both is identical. Assume we also have the same edition of an illustrated ebook. Since it's the same ebook we see the same ADE faux pagination. I take my copy of this book and remove the images; you leave the images in yours. Call mine my private edition. We now both read through 32 screens of our respective books. Your position in your edition is different from my position in my private edition even though they are the same faux page. You open a different ebook and read 32 screens. Your reading position in this new book might have a correspondance with my reading position in my private edition but it has none with your illustrated copy of the book. ADE pages are only consistent with a specific edition of a specific book. They are inconsistent across different editions of the same book and they are even less consistent across different books. Quote:
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