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Originally Posted by Panurge
Current scholarly journal databases such as Project Muse give the page numbers in square brackets within the text--an "ugly" solution, I suppose, but a simple one. JSTOR, the dominant archive of scholarly journals takes a different tack. It uses searchable PDF files and presents a scanned graphic representation of the original journal page, so the pagination problem is not an issue. However, the downloaded PDFs don't look all that great on the Sony Reader, though they are usable.
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Although neither is ideal, both methods could easily be done in an epub ebook. The first would be very simple, but "ugly" as you say. Including a scanned image of each page (PDF, PNG, JPG, etc.) that is linked from the XHTML text is also possible. This would of course make the epub much larger and more work to construct.
I haven't had the time to think about other ways to do this, but there is probably a good way to do this strictly in XHTML, without having to include scans or put visible page numbers in the text. Perhaps someone else can suggest something?
BTW, this may be a good topic to split out into its own thread.
Edit: Nevermind. I'll create a new topic for it myself.