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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Over the past year I have compared about a dozen paper books checked out from my local library with the same book purchased as an ebook from amazon. Most matched page numbers except that the first page of a chapter is frequently off by one on a kindle.
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If and only if the Kindle ebook has an associated .apnx file which matches the paper book. See either the MobileRead Wiki entry for
.apnx or the calibre
apnx documentation which is bit more in depth.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Kindles don't support pagelist or pagemap, but software to convert EPUB to a kindle format does. The HTML for most of the ebooks had obvious targets for pagelist/pagemap. I have to assume that the same book from the same publisher in EPUB format would have either pagelist or pagemap.
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However Kindles since firmware 3.1 support .apnx files which serves the same purpose as pagelist or pagemap.
Again, given that the page numbers can and will vary between different formats and editions of dead tree books and you can only match one edition, the utility of page numbers for ebooks is, IMNSHO, very limited.