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After searching around it does seem that yes, the general belief is that Kobo generates these page numbers itself and that no one has ever questioned how it calculates these numbers. Seems to me that it is based on an A4 page with 12 point text as that is what my book is written in to create the exact same page count. Seems like an odd choice seeing as I've never read a novel on A4 paper and as I've said, I feel page numbers being shown in this way just seem a little mad on an e-reader.
I discovered I could turn off the sporadic margin numbers in the Kobo settings which curiously it gives the following explanation for:
"For some Adobe EPUBs, these page numbers serve as a consistent reference across all eReaders and devices."
Which I personally would say confirms my suspicion that the page numbers are stored within the EPUB that Calibre is producing but I suppose the software's Creator knows best so I shan't argue.
BobC, thanks for the tip. I don't believe a page-map.xml file was involved at any stage of the EPUBs creation process, certainly not through my own action. I simply provided the .docx file that my Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac produced, added a cover image and hit convert. Could it be that there is a page map integrated into my docx file?
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