Thread: Incorrect Page Numbers in Calibre's E-book Viewer?
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Old 03-19-2019, 09:29 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Darkenmal View Post
I would be referring to Goodreads, which I already used to port their page numbers in a custom column in Calibre. I thought there might be a method of somehow overwriting the page count in the viewer to a more official page count, but I guess not.
Which does come back to DNSB's question of which edition. There is a significant difference between paperback and hardcover editions. And even between different paperback editions.

But, there is no way to do it in the viewer. And even if you did, the page numbering would probably be wrong. At the best, the viewer could count something (probably words or characters) in the book and divide that by your page number and then declaring a new page at every count of those things. Apart from the start of the first and end of the last pages, they probably won't line up with the paper book.

Note: The viewers page calculation is "number of significant characters/1000". And a significant character is a non-whitespace character. It is very simple, and just as likely to be "right" as any of the other calculations I have seen.
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