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By coincidence, I am simul-reading two ebooks that have page numbers. The first is a public domain translation of The Dawn of Day by Herr Nietzsche, the other an advance proof copy of In the Cauldron, a biography of Joseph Grew, US ambassador to Japan at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Both have page numbers inserted.
The first inserts the page number in brackets wherever the new page begins, in the form [pg 047]. That is scarcely any interruption at all, and would be even less so if reduced to [047], with equal clarity if the first instance were spelled out [page 002].
The second appears to be a PDF from the uncorrected print edition, and the page number is rather randomly inserted with a space above and below it. Often, therefore, the text line above it is a short line. I don't mind it, but I am accustomed to reading uncorrected proofs, so if I were going to do this, I would follow the Nietzschian example, apparently done by the Gutenberg Project volunteers.
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