Thread: Paged number data in ebooks and which ereaders support them.
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Old 10-20-2024, 06:01 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
Page numbers supplied by amazon correspond to a specific printed edition specified by ISBN. Some of these books have those page numbers encoded into the EPUB submitted to amazon by the publisher. Some retail EPUB books have the same encodings. So not complettely meaningless. Whether they are useful, useless, or somewhere in between depends on whoever is reading the book on which reading platform.
Well, my thinking here is, if you're in a book club, and people are reading a mix of Kindle, paperback, trade paperback and hardback, they're all going to have different page numbers.

So trying to reference things by page number is going to be hard. I know trade paperbacks and hardbacks are supposed to have the same page numbers, but they don't have to.
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