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Originally Posted by GeoffR
EPUBs can have page numbers in the form of a <pageList> section in the ncx that maps page numbers to html locations. Not all ereaders support it, but there is no harm in including it.
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@SigilBear:
Shameless plug: I created a simple
Sigil plugin for generating pageList sections and Sigil has a built-in index generator (
Tools > Index > Index Generator).
However, AFAIK, I don't know of any epub2 app that actually displays pageList page numbers. (ADE displays page numbers, but they need to be defined as
page maps, and if you include a page map the book will no longer pass epubcheck.)
If you decide to embed page number targets, you might want to convert your epub2 book to an epub3 book, because then at least iBooks and
Azardi users will be able to enable the display of printed page numbers.
If you decide to convert your epub2 book to an epub3 with the
Sigil epub3 output plugin, remember to update the NCX TOC via
Tools > Epub3 Tools > Generate NCX from Nav once you've finalized the book.