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Originally Posted by DNSB
Are we trying to revive the page number wars?
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I've never experienced these page number wars you speak of,
but I shouldn't think what I said to be terribly controversial. It still allows for the obvious best of both worlds approach of including it in the flow of the text as well as at the bottom of the page, for example. Not to mention making it a simple toggle switch.
If the page numbers are different anyway, then naturally there's no value to trying to make "paper" numbers display at the bottom on a digital screen. But that sounds like a case of a bad paperback and a bad reissue, hardly as a problem with page numbers per se. I have encountered an odd reissue myself,[1] but never a bad paperback. (Assuming we're talking about academic publications.) I've also encountered a few academic EPUB publications that use the paper page in the flow of the text method. I liked those.
[1] Perhaps not precisely a reissue, but the content was exactly the same except that it was
missing the references at the end of each chapter. Absolutely stupefying.