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Old 02-01-2024, 05:24 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Perhaps you might have noticed that (at least on Amazon.ca), the page count shows as Print length:274 pages and Page numbers source ISBN:1501767747 while the Kobo page count is basically what you would see when reading the ebook when synced from Kobo as a kepub so 448 pages. Downloading to ADE 4.51 as an epub says 332 pages and running Adobe's synthetic page number algorithm says 334 pages.

And people wonder why I break out in near hysterical laughter any time someone stands up and starts raving about true page numbers in a reflowable ebook.

OTOH, all 4 versions shows ~122K words and looking at the pagelist, all of them show 267 text pages and a variable # of pages labelled with iii,iv,...ix,x,xii.
Page numbers shown on the store's website are rubbish. Just ignore them as they are meaningless. The only external page numbers that make any sense are ADE page numbers that you can get from the Count Pages plugin. But for Kindle eBooks, you first have to convert to ePub to get the count.
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