Thread: Do e-reader formats not have any record of the page numbers?
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Old 03-16-2014, 11:49 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by AIDM2 View Post
No, it's just little numbers.
But it will come in the middle of paragraphs and be represented as an ugly gap in the middle of the text flow.

Page numbers are really only needed for legacy compatibility with referencing the print edition.

If the book has multiple print editions, like the public-domain stuff that Tex2002ans does (right?) then there really is no way to match multiple print editions. (Maybe that's why you dislike them so much?) But even without that, it isn't really useful. I have basically never looked at the page numbers in any of my ebooks, because what do I need it for anyway? To tell how far I've gotten? I have a percentage indicator as well as a calculation of how long it will take to finish (choice of chapter or whole book) at my current reading rate.
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