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Originally Posted by EldRick
Then Kobo programmers can focus their limited attention on returning to the correct paragraph within the book, regardless of font changes and ignore page-numbers for all other purposes than that for which they are useful - displaying page-numbers that match the printed book.
There is no other reason for displaying the page-numbers than to allow readers to match up an e-book with the printed version (and that's only semi-sensible anyway, since publishers will often publish different versions, such as hardback and softback).
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There is no point in displaying page numbers the way you suggest. I have 4 copies of Stranger in a Strange Land. The hardcover first edition signed by RAH which I literally had to bleed for, a hard cover of the edition where some pages deleted from the earlier editions were added back in, a hard cover which is reset edition of the first printing and a paperback edition -- the latter two being gifts. The page numbers within the three hard cover editions do not agree so just which print edition should be used to match the page numbers displayed by the electronic edition?
At least if there was agreement that a page is 1024 visible characters would make the page numbering consistent across ereaders which is currently not the case.
Regards,
David