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I like the way the Tolinos work here (if only you could get rid of the bookmark icon at the top of the page it would be perfect). No header and a very simple footer. Just the page you're on and the total number of pages... My current book (for example) reads "198 / 254" and that's it. |
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Agree. (edit) But I like the progess bar. Quote:
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10-06-2019, 09:15 PM | #18 | |
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10-06-2019, 09:15 PM | #19 | |
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Unless it's just to have a cleaner display of course. |
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10-06-2019, 09:22 PM | #20 | |
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So if something is on page 435 of a physical book, but your settings on your ereader have it so it's displayed on screen with page 434 the ereader would display 434. It'll still eventually flip to 435, and you'd not have to page back more than one page to find the quote. Still imprecise compared to physical books, but a large step closer than either ADE or Kobo's current or prior methods. As I said earlier, it's making a broken system work as much as possible, since creating a truly universal system is going to be impossible without limiting screen size, text size, line spacing, margins, font, kerning, etc. etc. |
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10-06-2019, 09:29 PM | #21 |
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The next, and apparently much more challenging, hurdle for such a system to overcome is the remarkably devout and passionate attachment many have to "page numbers".
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10-06-2019, 09:47 PM | #22 |
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For me, the main use of having some kind of consistent page numbering is being able to quickly judge comparative length of books. If most of the books I read were between, say, 300 - 400 ADE pages and I opened a new book and saw it was only 150, or over 500, then I would know the book was shorter or longer than my usual.
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10-06-2019, 10:23 PM | #23 | |
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10-06-2019, 11:26 PM | #26 | |
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I really don't care about book page numbers, percentages or anything else. Seeing I'm on chapter 17 in a book that has 37 chapters is enough for me. I just want to know what the chapter has, which is why I prefer 'pages' to be the equivalent of one screen. |
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10-07-2019, 01:25 AM | #28 | |
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As for your example, do you have—at hand—an example of two pbooks where the page numbers in the text only version lined up with the page numbers in the illustrated edition with 16 full page illustrations in the first 32 pages? Preferably two editions with the same font/font size/line and/or paragraph spacing, margins/etc and a page number assigned to each of the full page illustrations. For those who haven't stopped reading by now, here's the quote from the Adobe EPUB Best Practices ebook (version 1.0, March, 2008): Synthetic page names When page map is not available in the document, Adobe Digital Editions will synthesize a page-map based on the document content. The approach used is the following:
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I'd rather just read the Dralm-damned book. |
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10-07-2019, 01:38 AM | #30 |
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I really like the new options. I use page in chapter and pages in book with no progress bar, added to this is the wonderful miniclock add-on (which I have now positioned bottom right). I have switched from pubs using Koreader (which gave me all these things) to Kepubs on Nickel.
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