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Originally Posted by Jellby
Well, here is a test book (The Picture of Dorian Gray) modified with a simple page-map. I just make each chapter a page, and named them: (empty) the cover, i-iii the title, contents and preface, and 1-20 the chapters. So there are 24 pages; in ADE the Preface is "iii (4/24)" and Chapter 10 is "10 (14/24)" (you can edit the "iii" and the "10").
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This basic approach, making each chapter (each item in the spine?) a "page" seems to me the best approach for those who want to get rid of the annoying page numbers over text. This is because a page number at the start of a chapter will rarely, if ever, cover up anything important.
If you don't want numbers over text at all, then exactly the same approach with all the names blank does this (see that attached version). On a mobile ADE device, this still allows you to use "goto page 14" to get chapter 10, but under Desktop ADE page numbers are then inactive (the page is always 1/24).
Like frabjous, I tried leaving some entries out of the page-map but this seems to be a bad idea in practice.
In a program like Calibre, it would be possible to produce an explicit synthetic page map that would be more consistent than the one used by Adobe. Adobe bases its synthetic page count on the
compressed file size, so pages are not equal size. FBReader, for example, uses a similar scheme but based on uncompressed letter counts. In any case, if Calibre (say) produced a page-map of any kind it could have the option of either including the page number or a blank. In the latter case, the count would still be available to mobile ADE but there would be no page numbers overlaying the text on the screen.