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It's crazy to duplicate the look and feel of a paper book. Especially if it's fancy.
Also depending on print size on paper, you might want to use a slightly fancier font than an ebook.
We do the ebook first, make a copy of the wordprocessor file and then add extra page styles, headers, footers, page numbers on contents and body pages. Probably different margins on pages and headings. Different resolution and formatting for images. Perhaps add blank pages.
A large print edition, Trade size edition (hardback and paperback can be the same), medium bookshelf size and pocket aka mass market size paper may even use different fonts. The smallest size font on the smallest size paperback is challenging as legibility is important, because print runs or POD may be less good than some 1930s typesetting.
Also the book is only proofed and annotated on epub2 before it's finalised.
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