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Old 02-08-2011, 11:17 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by sam.doran View Post
From reading on Amazon's site, it looks like the page numbers are linked to an ISBN. Since calibre already has ISBN info for most books (or can acquire it automagically), I imagine it should be fairly simple to implement. I'm far from a programmer, but it looks as though the pieces are all there, it's just a matter of putting an ISBN into the .mobi file.
How would the bibliographic data associated with an ISBN create links between pages in the print version and the points in the Kindle version where the page number should be incremented? The ISBN simply identifies the print version that the page numbering is based on.

One possibility is that Amazon might have introduced an implementation of some form of the NCX <pagelist> coding. But at the moment, that's just a guess.
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