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Originally Posted by GHRuffo
Since I have created the epub file myself, and no other eBook I have ever bought so far has presented this problem, I would really like to have correct page numbers for each screen that shows up. Is the page list the only way to solve it, besides not caring at all about the way the pages are currently presented?
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Every Most ebooks on the planet shows this "problem".
Page numbers are a
paper book concept.
- Kindles do not use page numbers, except when an APNX is in play,
- other readers will often lie outright and make up random fake page numbers based on different metrics.
- Most commonly Adobe Digital Editions' lets-just-assume-1024-(compressed)-characters-is-the-average-page-length,
- but sometimes it is based on how many screens worth of text there are at the current font/line/margin settings. This is the worst of every world, because it confuses the hell out of everyone who sees it, and makes NO sense whatsoever.
The reason
any reader does page numbers at all, is usually as a crutch for people who irrationally want them, but they also have an actual use, limited though it is... it allows people to cite content in a professional/college setting.
Obviously, the fact that it is often a blatant lie obviates the usefulness of such a thing...
If you care to bother at all about what the Kindle terms "Contains real page numbers based on the print edition _______", then you can go ahead and create a
Page-map and
PageList.
Being as they are designed for the sole and specific purpose of defining-a-page-number-as-opposed-to-letting-the-ereader-make-one-up, then
YES, it is the only way...
(Sorry if I come across as overly harsh. Page numbers on an ereader just hit allmany of my buttons. 
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