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Originally Posted by The Terminator
That would be nice, but I don't know if it's possible. I might be wrong, but I heard that each chapter is stored as an individual file. If it's important to you, you could download the ePub version from the Kobo site.
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From my looking, that isn't correct. The kepub ebooks I have seen, look a lot like the epub ebooks. They are both a container file with files inside for the text (usually one xml or html file per chapter), styles, images and several other files to indicate how the other files connect together. The difference for the kepub is that the text appears to be encrypted and some have some javascript in them.
From this, the decision to do page numbers within chapters is design choice from Kobo. I suspect it has come about so that they don't have to decrypt the whole book at the start. This way they can decrypt one chapter file at a time, which will be faster to open the book and use less memory. For epubs, they have to be reading and formatting the whole book to be able to do the page numbering.