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Originally Posted by bfollowell
I agree with you guys. It's just that I'm trying to recreate a book as close to the original as the ebook medium will allow.
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Thats not possible or does not really makes sense. We had that in the beginning of the WWW where everyone tried to be as close as possible to flyers or catalogs. The results where "best viewed with..." banner, "your browser does not support frames" and so one.
In epubs you dont have pagenumbers (well, readers sometimes show them, but they will vary from reader to reader and have nothing to with the real books page numbering), you dont have headers nor footers, footnotes are not at the end of a page but are clickable right in the text. For a good navigation the table of content should not be in the book itself as text but in the meta data, you do not have control over the font size and often not over the font itself.
So why insist in a continuous flow over chapters?