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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Since no one even knows what precisely the Digital Editions system is (it's certainly not file size based), this argument is moot.
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I assumed the algorithm described in the ePub Best Practices document, published by Adobe, was correct. Since I haven't finished implementing it, I can't say whether or not it is correct, but it should be easy to verify. Your comment implies that someone else has already done this, though, and it turned out to not be the case.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
The real motivation for the ADE page based system is the digitisation of paper books that refer to content via page numbers. In fact, ADE supports a system whereby the creator of an EPUB file can specify an arbitrary page map (you can see this in action in calibre. calibre has conversion options to let you create the page map based on XPath expressions for detecting page boundaries).
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I knew about the page mapping (it's also documented in the Best Practices document), but I wasn't aware that Calibre supported it. Neat!
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
In any case, this is my last post on this subject,
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Thanks for your time (I'm actually surprised that you posted as much as you did).
I was actually kind of hoping that other people would chime in with an opinion, but maybe I was stretching my hope too far in thinking that others would have an opinion on this subject.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
there have already been 3 previous discussions on page numbers in e-books
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Maybe that is why the others have been so silent. I will try to track them down before going any further down this path.
Thank you, Kovid.