Hi Don, You are not really serious here. You have a paper copy of all books you read on your phone??????????????? C'mon. This is ridiculous. Just like the remarks that academics need cite page numbers, so pages numbers have to be in the etext. Please do not get me wrong. I believe original page numbers have their value in the master format and are useful for some formats for display devices/agents, yet not all and for all reasons. We simply can not serve everybodies pet whims. Furthermore, as others have stated, the display of page numbers on ereaders Agents is problematic and vary from device to device. PG tries tries to serve as many devices as possible, yet it has to make compromises, inorder not to have a format for every device in the wild. Agrred, the texts will not look perfectly on every device yet look good enough on most devices. I refer your to an upcomming thred by me "A New Approach" regards Keith. Am 04.02.2012 um 05:43 schrieb don kretz:
No, it's so if I tell you that the passage I'm reading is on page 54, you can go to page 54 and find it. Or if you switch from your phone on the train to the paper copy at home, you can tell where to pick up. Or if you go to the library to look at the real illustrations, or maps, or drawings, you'll be able to find them.