Re: Documentation epub format

On 02/05/13 15:23, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 18:27 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> I must admit that there is a bit of a disappointement as far as the
>> user experience is concerned: the generated file is barely usable on
>> an iPad2 with the default iBooks reader, which was clearly not
>> designed for handling a "4592" pages book (from its point of view).
> Well, clearly there are mainstream books that have 1000 pages, so it
> ought to be designed for that. It's not clear to me then why it
> necessarily must fail at 4000 pages. I think you might want to run some
> experiments to see what the reader can handle before we start doing
> anything.
>
>
There might be something silly in some eReaders, like reserving 12 bits
for page numbers internally - as 'no one will ever want a book with more
than 4095 pages!'?

Cheers,
Gavin