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Originally Posted by JJ Johnson
I've yet to use ePub files, having always use the conversion to kepub since I've had my Kobo Libra. How do epub files have stable page numbers when you can still (I assume) change font size? Do pages get split across screens?
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The Adobe synthetic page numbers have nothing to do with the screen and more to do with the number of compressed bytes. At large font sizes, a page may be 5 screens, at a small font size, a page may be less than half the screen. The only use I've found for page numbers in epubs is to allow me to go to the same page on different devices. And even there, searching is faster since Kobo does not have a goto page number implemented for use when reading.
One recent book my wife was reading had a pagelist in the nav.xhtml. The page numbers there were based on the hard cover first edition and you could use them to go to a page matching the page in that hard cover edition. Other than the first page of a chapter, you would end up at some random point in the screen. Sadly, it turned out to be useless since her book club had some people reading on Kobo and Kindle ereaders while others had paperback and hardcover pbooks which had half their virtual meeting wasted on locating what one person called page 179 and two others referred to as page 204 for example.