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Originally Posted by n1ch0las

When reading a mobi formatted book or an epub, page numbers are not accurate, the amount of page numbers may be 1119, when the book may stop at 950 or so, which was starting to annoy me

I have never run into that for epubs. The book *always* ends as predicated.

Originally Posted by n1ch0las

And i have tried every option on and off methodically when converting books, the insert line and each line as a paragraph function were both tested

Have you tried checking both settings at the same time? Also changing global conversion settings doesn't automatically translate to conversion setting being changed for books that had been previously converted, read this post and view attachments to it.

Originally Posted by ldolse

Adobe DE based epub engines do something weird with page calculation. They create some sort of canonical version of a 'page' when the file is opened and stick with that page count no matter how you change the display. Depending on the font size you're using you could page across several user perceived pages and the ADE engine will tell you you are still on the same original page number. It's weird and I just ignore it. I think this is what the users are complaining about.

I don't find this weird. No matter what font size you use page 124 is page 124. When the font size is larger you might need to page through 8-9 screens to get past one page. But the page doesn't change based on what font size you're using.

Basically, unless told other wise via a page map ADE creates page numbers by breaking up the data into chunks based on the following format.

From the EPUB Best Practices Guide found on Adobe's site here.

Synthetic page names
When page map is not available in the document, Adobe Digital Editions will synthesize a page-map based on the document content. The approach used is the following:

• Determine a compressed byte length of each resource which is referenced in the spine, subtracting any known encryption overhead (IV size)
• Assume that there is a page for each 1024 bytes in each resource, rounding up to the nearest whole number of pages for each resource
• To map page breaks into a resource, use the number of pages for the resource as determined in step 2, count the number of Unicode characters in the resource; distribute synthetic page breaks in the resource evenly between the characters by dividing the number of characters by the number of pages; if the number of characters don’t divide evenly among the pages, round the number of characters per page up and let the last “page” contain less characters than the rest.

I like having a relatively constant set of page numbers no matter what epub I'm reading or what font size I choose. Calibre's viewer does something similar.