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Originally Posted by sydneycat1999
The actual pagination also really helps especially in a book discussion. Usually have to just wing it " As mentioned in Chapter so and so not sure which page it is in the hard copy..." so with this not anymore.
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Well, I hate to disappoint, but the page numbers don't line up with the physical book except for 'first page of the chapter' and 'last page of the chapter'. What the page number represents is the number of physical pages
on the Kobo device that are in the current chapter. If you change your display settings (font size, margins) so the device can put more data on the screen, eventually that 'Chapter 1 - Page 1 of 10' will become 'Chapter 1 - Page 1 of 9' (or page 1 of 11 if you go for less data on the screen). Even with the standard ePub renderer and it's 'Page 1 of 427' display has no bearing on the numer of pages in the physical book; it's actually technically the number of 1024 word chunks of text across all files, which means that you may be on page 237, turn the page, and still be on page 237.
Technically, as far as I've seen (but never bothered to fully verify yet) I believe the KePub page numbering is actually the number of physical pages on the Kobo device in the current content file, and there's typically one content file per chapter.
And really, even if you and I both have physical copies, there's no guarantee that we can reference pages like that anyway. Let's say you buy The Lord of the Rings trilogy in trade paperback and I go buy it as a single-volume hardcover. Tell me on which page, or even on which page of which chapter, does Smeagol throw the group's Lembas bread off the ledge they're sleeping on
Similarly, if we both buy the same eBook and read on the same model Kobo (Glo, Aura, Mini, whatever), my page numbering is possibly legitimately different from yours.