[Ripplinger]

I don't see anything in the html files that any of the above posts mentions, and there's definitely not a page-map.xml file included. There is a LOT of unnecessary <span blah blah> coding where it's apparent they used some crappy generator or converter and didn't spend much time proof-reading, let alone cleaning up the code. But the total file size is still only 560kb.

I would upload the book for anyone to tell me what I'm missing, but it's a purchased book, so copy-righted, etc.

How can one change the compression used to make such a change? I've opened the book in Sigil and resaved normally, I've used Calibre to convert epub to epub, and it still has the inflated page numbering. I would think if some special compression was used, that those steps would have at least changed it to what I commonly transfer to my readers.

Edit: Just in case anyone else maybe has the book, it's "Ghost Light" by Rick Hautala that I purchased from Smashwords.