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AppendixA:PageNumberingandFileFormats
WhenyoureadabookorperiodicalonyourNOOK,you’rereadingthesame
wordsthatappearinthepapereditionofthebookorperiodical.Inmostbooks,
thepagenumberthatappearsatthebottomofthescreenisthepagenumberyou
wouldseeifyouwereread-ingtheprintedversionofthesamebook.
BecauseprintedpagescanbelargerthanthescreenofyourNOOK,andbecause
manyprintedbooksusetypethatissmallerthanwouldbepleasanttoreadonan
eReader,yourNOOKmayenlargethetypeonapageandspreadaphysicalpage
oftextacrosstwoormoredigitalpages.
Becausedigitalpagesmightbesmallerthanthephysicalpagesofabook,you
mightturnthepageafewtimesonyourNOOKandstillseethesamephysical
pagenumberintheupperrighthandcorner.Forexample,youmightfindthree
screensoftextinyourbookalllabeledpage47.
Therelationbetweendigitalpagesandphysicalpagescanvary,becauseyour
NOOKgivesyouagreatdealoffreedominchoosingthesizeoffonts,the
amountofspacingbetweenlines,andotherfactorsthataffecthowtextflows
ontoapage.
Inmostbooks,you’llalwaysknowwhichphysicalpageyou’reonfromthe
numberintheupperright.Soifyou’rediscussingabookinabookclub,
everyonecanrefertopage295andbetalkingaboutthesamepage,evenif
you’veconfiguredyourNOOKtousesmalltypeandsingle-spacingand
everyoneelseinthegroupisusinglargetypeanddouble-spacing.
PageNumberingandFileFormats
ThereareseveraldifferentformatsforeBooks,andthesedifferentformatstreat
pagenumbersdifferently.Barnes&NobleeBooksarepublishedintheEPUB
format,butyoucanloadothertypesofdocuments,suchasPDFs,ontoyour
NOOK.
Here’saquicksummaryofwhatyouneedtoknowaboutfileformatsandpage
numbering: