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Originally Posted by JSWolf
As part of the processing of ePub, Sony would add page numbers to the NCX ToC and because Sony used RMSDK, the page number were accurate. The same cannot be said about Access unless they get rid of the inaccurate 1/1 page numbering.
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Putting aside the tired old dead horse that is "accurate" page numbering in a media where there's clearly multiple ways to determine page numbers.
There's likely a way for Kobo to have their current page numbering system for kepub and to update the ToC. We already know they can, and do, update the pages of a book and pages in a chapter. They'd just have to make it so the displayed ToC called for the first page of the chapter whenever the ToC was brought up. It wouldn't matter what the page was as long as the number was being refreshed upon calling of the ToC.
Note I say "just", I don't know how easy this would be for them to do. I suspect, given Jackie's response, that they would likely not want to modify the actual ToC etc of the kepub file, but as they have full control of the UI it's entirely possible they can do something like displaying information in the displayed ToC on the Kobo device which isn't strictly speaking in the ToC.
Now how important this is to Kobo, and how likely it is that someone else would be so passionate about this issue, and have the time and skills to implement it without having full access to all the inner workings of the software is probably the same odds: low to none.
I seem to recall Nook offering page numbers at one point, and then dropping them. I'm not sure if it was that, or nested ToC, or possibly some combo of the two. Sadly the Nook forums where this was discussed have long since been shuttered and abandoned. It's possible google's waaaaay back machine might have them, but as that's a different brand, with a different OS, and different hardware, I'm not particularly fussed to try and find it. I only mention it as a case of the feature once existing, and then not and folks moving on. Because there is no such thing as a page in an ebook.