Probably not the place to ask but how does everyone record their page count?
Ebook and physical versions of books sometimes have huge page number discrepancies.
Do you count your pages based on the physical book or the ebook?
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If I have both digital and physical, I match it towards the phsyical book, otherwise I update in %s instead.
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I typically will just use the page count on my iPad. It does lower my page number because my iPad shows more characters per page than most physical books, but I’m not really concerned with page counts so long as I hit my yearly minimum.
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For manga or anything that I’m pausing at chapters (like reading with an audiobook) I’ll probably look up pg numbers (manga usually lists them)
For LNs I’d just use the digital (and adjust the total pgs) - I don’t care about page numbers as a metric anyway, except maybe for tracking reading speed
I noticed with 最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました。 | L24 in the Kindle app that the digital pages are synced to the physical periodically anyway
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Where I read manga, the displayed page numbers are the original manga page numbers plus two. They always add two pages at the start. You can also see the original page numbers in the scanned pages to check if in doubt.
Novels I only read physically, so also no problem.
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Surprised to see it this way, and not the opposite (manga physical, novel digital)… Why the difference?
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For me manga are like a newspaper: read and forget, so nothing that I would want to have lying around clogging book space. And scanned manga I can usually magnify, which helps to identify the one or other obscure character.
Novels I might actually read a second time, when in some (far) time in the future I might be able to read them without look-ups. Then I would want to read them without digital requirements.
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I input percentage on Natively and get the approximate physical book page number.
I can’t rely on iPad pages as I tend to change font size sometimes, which affects the page number by a lot. Of course there is the “official” ebook page number, which is always shorter than the physical book, but since Natively automatically converts to physical book pages I don’t see a good enough reason to go out of my way to track by ebook “pages” instead. It’s all approximate anyway. If I wanted to be extra accurate I’d have to discount title pages and 解説 pages (I almost never read those), but again, I think it’s not worth the trouble.
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Interesting. The thought of rereading a novel in JP has almost not occurred to me (I’ve done it once), whereas rereading a good manga series is relatively common for me.
Also manga are a lot nicer physically (esp the larger ones), and sometimes it’s nice to flip through to admire the artwork. Tho the ability to easily magnify is certainly missed. Otoh the visual difference btwn a physical vs digital novel isn’t that significant.
I am slowly buying more physical novels tho
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How do you get natively to do percent in the first place?
Edit: I found the answer… Seems to be limited to progress update?
So I gave koreader a try. While it’s amazing what can do with a 7 year old kobo, I think I’ll stay with my Surface 3 setup. My reading speed tanked with the ebook.
I can see it throwing it on my work bag and using it between shifts though instead of carrying the big ass Surface. Might eventually try a newer generation kobo, or go for a inkpad color 3. But they are a bit pricy for something I don’t know if it will work for me for sure.
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If you’re interested, this is koreader on a newer device:
But this is not on a kobo, it’s a tolino. Tolino is based on android while Kobo is based on Linux, but they have the same shell. Not sure which of those would perform better speed-wise.
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To be honest, doesn’t look much faster than my 7 year old Kobo. At what response speed you have the hold? 200ms?
I probably could benefit from a bigger device, but that leaves out the Kobo Clara 2Es.
I was mildly interested in the Inkpad Color 3 but it’s pricy, and doing that investment without trying it first is a hard pill to swallow.
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I have no idea how I would measure that 
It’s not an issue for me, that’s all I can say. I wouldn’t read a book I have to do a ton of look ups for on my e-ink reader anyway. I bought it 2nd hand, so it’s not that new either. (Came out in 2021) But the dictionary lookup (first thing I did in the video) is way faster than the sentence translation feature (2nd thing you see in the video).
I’m not sure if it could be faster with different refresh rates etc, I didn’t really tinker with it. 
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Ah so you are running at default speed. I was wondering if you changed the response time in KOReader.
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I might check these out in a store before purchasing one and potentially replacing my old kobo.
Probably koreader works on it without much trouble too, since it seems like it runs on the same software
Koreader doesn’t even work on the newest clara, so wouldn’t keep my hopes up.
Also, uuf, I wonder how the hardware will handle this, since the previous version already has an excruciatingly slow UI and word pickup. Even gets stuck often and misses inputs. I kind of wish I’d just went back to a Kindle. Even my 10 year old kindle was a better experience 
I’m reading more and more on paper since it’s just faster to lookup new words on my phone than struggle with the selection… Ipad has peak support, but sadly it’s not e-ink.
Supposedly the software is the same as the non-color version. At least most of it, except the display drivers.
I kind of want to have a hands on the device before committing to it but I have to commute to a shop that has it on display, which is nowhere near where I live.
As for the speed, they have updated the CPU, so in theory it should be more snappy, but we will see.
And while I don’t mind Kindle, I’m trying to stay in a more friendly ecosystem, as the Kindle is a bit too Amazoony for my taste.
