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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's not an actual bug. The way the chapter names are gotten is from the ToC. The second file of the split chapters don't have a ToC entry. So the software doesn't know it's a continuation of the chapter. It doesn't know what that file is other than an XML file for display. You cannot expect that sort of thing to work as you want. Combining the split chapters back into one chapter is the only way there is to fix this.
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it is reasonable that the firmware does not know what name to display in the footer for split chapters.
it is not reasonable software design to create a situation where turning from last page of (split) chapter x to 1st page of chapter x+1 causes a 300+ page count jump. I found that I could go FORWARD one page and according to kobo I'd gone from page 1200+ back to page 900+
and in one case for sure, this is how the retail epub was published, it's not that calibre has introduced the splits in order to maintain some 260k or whatever limit. I've a feeling I have an Anne Rice book somewhere that also was published with splits in very long chapters. If an author wants a 200 page chapter, they should be able to have one without the publisher's screwing up
it seems to me that Kobo, in typical Kobo fashion, have added a feature (all of book page numbers) which they have not tested against a large enough sample of retail books. I'm guessing that depending on direction of page turn, kobo sometimes counts back from end of book and sometimes counts forwards from start. but miscounts the splits as it goes.
that is just crass programming, and ADE for example is perfectly able to maintain a sensible page count throughout & not get confused.
I bet the page numbering is also well behaved in epic kindle books, even if some chapters have been split .
as it maybe affects <0.1% of books, I doubt Kobo will ever fix it though
perhaps others can check their longest books for other examples.