I suppose it depends on the size of the font: if you increase the font size, the book occupies more pages. Harry - who likes his fonts BIG!
> On 12 Mar 2014, at 13:43, Wayne Merritt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings all. This question has been on my mind for awhile. Is there > a difference between the length of a book in iBooks, or another ebook > reader, and the regular print book? I have several books that are much > longer in iBooks than their print versions. For instance, one book I > am reading is around 300 pages in print, but over 500 pages in iBooks. > A second book I bought is 410 print pages, but nearly 1,000 pages in > iBooks. Is it the way the book pages are formatted in iBooks? I am > reading these books with my Braille display, but I don't think it has > to do with how the book is presented in Braille, since these books are > being read within a mainstream app. It could have to do with the > number of lines displayed since it seems like it doesn't take me any > time at all to get through a few pages in iBooks. Are books that > people have read in Kindle like this, where the ebook version is twice > as long, or longer, than the regular printed version? For what it's > worth, I am reading them on an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.0.6. > > Just curious, > Wayne > > -- > Follow me on Twitter at: > www.twitter.com/wcmerritt > My websites: > www.wayneism.com > www.whitecaneday.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
