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Originally Posted by Bob Doyle
I attach a draft and would appreciate critical feedback. I will submit this to InDesign Magazine.
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That looks, frankly, entirely terrible. The last time I saw a book formatted like this it was a really, really bad scan-and-OCR and the people doing the OCRing hadn't realised that they had to strip page numbers out.
Page numbers embedded in the text look horrendous in reflowable books for exactly the same reason that a page number stuck in the middle of the running text of a page would look horrendous in a paper book: page numbers (and other header/footer information) must stay out of the way, at the top or bottom of the visible page area, and the Kindle has no way to implement floats like that (indeed, it's hard to see what it could even mean, when the user can change font size or move any multiple of 128 chars back or forward at any time).
There is already a mechanism for out-of-line page numbers. Smuggling them in like this does nothing but make your book unreadable.