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1. View page number on kindle for mac how to#
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While this blog entry was about the Kindle device itself, I'm interested to know how it works for any of the Kindle apps. Don, Thanks much for the added info for the PC's Kindle app. The Send to Kindle button works well only on Firefox currently. Below are ways to Share this post if you'd like others to see it. UK-Only:, or ones Also, UK customers should see the UK store's bestsellers. ' (UK: ), Check often: Temporarily-free or Guide to and Sources. We want you to lose yourself in the reading, so page numbers are only displayed when you push the menu button. ' [ Andrys' note here: Sony and iBook page numbers don't map to print-book pages. Some other e-bookstores have added virtual “page numbers” to e-books, but we’ve found that these approaches can be confusing and often inconsistent – they don’t map to the page numbers in physical books, and in some cases they don’t account for title pages, blank pages, and other nuances that we see in print books. We even found a way to deliver page numbers to books that customers had already purchased – without altering those books in any way, so customers’ highlights, notes, and reading location are preserved exactly as they were. The results of this work are stored in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, where we track the complete history of every page matching file we’ve produced. ' We created algorithms to match the text of print books to Kindle books and organized all of this in the cloud, using our own AWS platform. Amazon wrote the following in a Kindle Post Daily over a month ago. NON-Amazon books definitely won't have them, as Amazon can't calculate page numbers on books they don't have on their servers.

In their original announcement, they said they've ' “added real page numbers to tens of thousands of Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions and thousands more of the most popular books.”' They've continued adding them at a fast pace, from what I read a couple of weeks ago, and they include the usual publishers and also university press books. If a book has been processed by Amazon to add real-page numbers, this information will show up in the product page's Product Detail (you need to scroll down a bit to see that). The books must be matched to a specific printed edition and its ISBN #. Amazon is adding page numbers to books and they definitely prioritize them. Most Kindle books don't have page numbers yet. Press Menu and you'll see the page number *IF* Amazon has added them to that book. Amazon decided to keep the location and real-page numbers out of the way and showing only the percentage of the book you've read so far. If you have Kindle 3 with v3.1 software, have you tried pressing Menu button? That is the only way to see the real page numbers.

View page number on kindle for mac how to#

If you're comfortable with using your Kindle's USB cable (that is part of your power cord), to download an update and put it on your Kindle, see for information on how to do that. Sometimes, they can send one to your Kindle, if the update should have been sent earlier.

View page number on kindle for mac manual#

Ask them to help you with it, if a manual download (rather than automated) is required at this point. If by now, you don't have v3.1, I'd call Customer Support at 86 but if you're outside the U.S., try, which is able to call back people in several countries but provides an email form if your country is not on the Call-me list.

View page number on kindle for mac software#

Is your Kindle 3 using Update v3.1? Press Menu button, then Settings, and your software version no. The Kindle 1 with its different type of screen probably would not be updated, as the added calculations could slow down more that slower model. I would think they'd be included eventually.Īmazon often takes 6 months to get to the old Kindles with updated software and it's been longer than that for some changes that should have been added to the DX Graphite at least.

View page number on kindle for mac upgrade#

I have no idea whether Amazon will upgrade older Kindle software for Kindle 2 and DX's to have these. In their original announcement, they said they've '“added real page numbers to tens of thousands of Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions and thousands more of the most popular books. Shouldn't they be there now?Ī: That depends on several things: 1. Q: I don't see real page numbers in my Kindle books. I'd like to start a Question Bag in any case. QUESTIONS: DO YOU HAVE ANY? If so, add them to Comments area and I'll either reply with an answer or do blog entries on some.