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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
Also, of course, you can glance at the page number in the page footer before and after changing the page. Unlike Kindle, Kobo page numbers are really screen numbers (for most books), so if the page number has gone up by one, you're all set, and don't have to page back.
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Originally Posted by kwokhin
The page number doesn't change for every few pages. Though I have never accidentally skipped a page so I don't know where this phobia comes out from. Thanks for the insight  |
You will need to be reading kepubs rather than epubs to see the page number per screen behaviour. If you are reading epubs, unless the epub has embedded page numbers (either Adobe's page-map or the NCX pagelist), synthesized page numbers will be used. Synthetic page numbers have the advantage that they are not affected by screen resolution, font size, etc. You can now skip the rest of this message unless you are interested in how Adobe software calculates synthetic page numbers.
Calculating synthetic page numbers from the Adobe EPUB Best Practices guide:
- When page map is not available in the document, Adobe Digital Editions will synthesize a page-map based on the document content. The approach used is the following:
- Determine a compressed byte length of each resource which is referenced in the spine, subtracting any known encryption overhead (IV size).
- Assume that there is a page for each 1024 bytes in each resource, rounding up to the nearest whole number of pages for each resource.
- To map page breaks into a resource, use the number of pages for the resource as determined in step 2, count the number of Unicode characters in the resource; distribute synthetic page breaks in the resource evenly between the characters by dividing the number of characters by the number of pages; if the number of characters don't divide evenly among the pages, round the number of characters per page up and let the last page contain less characters than the rest.