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Originally Posted by HolyAura
Some people also like the ePub page numbers more because the page numbers are the same as a printed book so if they want to refer to a certain part of the book, they can just say the page number and it would be the same part of the book on a printed book. However, I don't usually need to refer to a certain part of a book. Even if I do, I would just say for example 'the part where blah blah blah...' And, doesn't each printed book also have several sizes of it? Some books are small and therefore contain more pages, while there is another version of the same book that is bigger and therefore contains lesser pages. So, which version of the printed book is the ePub page numbers following? It can get confusing. Therefore, it's hard to refer to the exact part of the book using page numbers, no matter ePub, KePub or printed.
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You can either match the page numbers in an epub to a specific printed book edition using either Adobe's page-map or the epub3 epub:type="page-list". Alternatively, you can use Adobe's synthetic page numbers. All of which have the advantage that they will be the same on any epub renderer using the same epub file regardless of screen size, resolution, font size, margins, or whatever other factors might come into play.
Personally, I'm not all that fond of any of the above page numbering scheme but neither do I like the page per screen page numbering which is sensitive to the factors listed above. For the most part, a simple percentage is my preference.
One other disadvantage to page-map and page-list is that they can make the table of contents horrendously long. One book I was recently reading had 6 sections and 118 chapters plus 2309 entries from i,ii,iii,iiii,1....2305 for the page numbers. On my Forma, that made the TOC at 15 entries per page a mere 163 pages long. It took me about 3 seconds to decide to excise the page numbers from the nav.xhtml document.