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Old 12-06-2021, 01:53 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Joliet Jake View Post
Straight from Kobo is a Kepub. In my experience, an Epub doesn't display pages "properly" anyway. A 400 page book might say it has 270 pages, and I might need to advance 10 "pages" to move forward a page. Ironically I find a good Epub to be more accurate, since the Kepub is more "interested" in dividing the book by "page forwards". If I change the font size, an Epub's page count will not change, but a Kepub's page count will.
Sorry but I find worrying about "pages" in a reflowable format with variable page and font sizes humourous. Even a page map listing has to relate to a specific paper book edition and you can have multiple pages on a screen or take multiple screens to show a single page. Adobe's synthetic page algorithm has only one advantage in that the page numbers are consistent across devices and are not affected by page or font sizing.
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