[bookport] Re: Page Bug

  • From: Steve Cook <STCook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:56:33 -0400

Hi all

My name is Steve and I am new to this list and the book port.  I hope to
learn a lot from every one.  How can you tell what page you are currently
on? 


Thanks,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Wunder [mailto:gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:34 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Page Bug

I just resent the book and when I go to print page 290, which is some 50
percent through the book, in my newly transferred file it is reported as
page 4.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Page Bug


> I'm not at all sure that what the BP is calling a page really is, but I am

> sure that when it works correctly I can navigate by some modest amount of 
> material and quickly find my place if I've fallen asleep or had to take a 
> call and not been able to turn off the unit. In the file I mentioned, I 
> verified it had 300 pages at one time, and now shows five.
>
> Gary
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:18 PM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Page Bug
>
>
>> Are you sure that the number of pages that the BP recognizes really _are_
>> pages? That is, there's no relationship whatever between what you may 
>> _hear_
>> announced as pages as a result of the scanning and what the BP actually
>> _sees_ as pages. I have a book with, supposedly, over a thousand "pages" 
>> in
>> it, but the BP only sees slightly over 200 and I've verified that this is
>> the actual case. The BP determines what is a page based on the presence 
>> or
>> absence of a hex 0C character in the file, not on print page numbers.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:09 PM
>> Subject: [bookport] Page Bug
>>
>>
>> I have noticed several times recently that I lose the ability to go from
>> page to page and that a 200 or 300 page book will suddenly be reduced to 
>> a
>> book which shows only 4 or 5 pages. Book marks seem to be preserved, but
>> there is no jumping back or forward a page. Has anyone else seen this
>> behavior? Using most current Beta.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> Gary Wunder
>> gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> 



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