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Old 06-14-2020, 12:15 PM   #3
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by 93terp View Post
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere along the way or is there a patch I need to enable?
You're not missing an existing setting/patch.

I know such a feature is technically feasible because I like messin' around and cobbled something together last year using my own copy of KoboTouchExtended calibre driver to update the TOC on-the-fly during send-to-device.

For my own experiments, when deciding what page number each chapter started at, I used the ADE page numbers for epubs and for kepubs the old Kobo concept of (x words = 1 page), where I get to choose x.

Given the sound & fury unleashed every time the question of the 'right way to do page numbers' comes up, it's not surprising no-one has come up with a communal offering. It's all so much easier when your user base of one always agrees with you.

Here's a couple of screenshots of a typical kepub as proof of concept. Start "page" of chapter shown in TOC and book heading. Total "pages" (using x words/page) shown in brackets in book footer.

Even I'm not sure how worthwhile this is but it was a fun project which kept me amused whilst the aforementioned arguments were raging.
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