This is indeed a shame. I will need to look at Read2Go more carefully to find out whether that app can render this information, at least with textbooks and magazine articles that come directly from the publisher. Perhaps, if we are fortunate, any Kindle updates might give us this information, too.
Best regards, Mike On 28,May,2013, at 4:12 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I believe Kindle does provide this information (hardcopy page numbering), at > least for people who can see. Not sure how to access it, if it's even > possible, with VoiceOver. > > I believe iBooks does not provide hardcopy page numbers, not even for people > who can see. > > This is a real shame as you mention because it really undermines the utility > of e-books for academic or similar professional use. E-books are such a > brilliant format in all other respects for this kind of use, so it's really > sad there's no way to provide a proper pinpoint reference. > > Nic > > On 28/05/2013, at 10:56 PM, Mike Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Like many people on this list, I have truly enjoyed increasing accessibility > to books through places like Bookshare, Nook, Amazon/Kindle, Blio and iBooks > from Apple. > > I am wondering if there is a way, in any of the aforementioned platforms to > gain accurate information about print-page numbers when using their > respective apps on the iPhone. On more than one occasion, I have very much > wished to draw someone's attention to a passage by pointing out specific > print-page numbers, but I haven't been able to determine what print page I am > actually on. If you decrease or increase the font size, the values in the > page selector change and in any case, they don't reflect the hardcopy page > numbering. > > I would appreciate any ideas on how to tackle this issue and which of the > apps you use for eBook reading give you this information. > > Thanks in advance, > > Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
