Page # wackiness (epub on Kobo)

[Medieval Guy]

I have a book whose page numbering is unright. It starts out 1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, 4 of 4, then for a while alternates between 3 of 4 and 4 of 4, then starts counting up 5 of 4, 6 of 4, etc. When it gets to a new chapter, it resets to 3 of 4 then starts counting up again. The correct pages show up in the margin.

I looked inside the file with Sigil, but I don't know enough about how it's supposed to be structured to see what might be causing this. Any notions?

Thanks!

[davidfor]

Yes, that is wacky. At first I thought you might have been using the extended driver to send the book as a kepub, but then you wouldn't have the page number in the margin.

The only thing I can think of is that the book has a page map in it that is broken. Have you tried opening it with ADE? It would be interesting to see if it shows the same problems.

Is there any chance we can see the book? If it is somewhere legal to download, that would be good. Even looking at a preview might help.

Also, which Kobo device and firmware are you using?

[Medieval Guy]

Well, that's interesting. Same behavior in ADE. I opened it up again in Sigil, dug around until I found the page map...and of course, I didn't really understand what I was looking at. So I decided to compare it to the page map in another book I've read to see if there are any obvious differences...and none of the books I've read recently even HAVE page maps. So I made a copy of the problem book, deleted the page map, and voila! It functions as it should.

Weird, but I guess whatever works!

Thanks!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Medieval Guy

Well, that's interesting. Same behavior in ADE. I opened it up again in Sigil, dug around until I found the page map...and of course, I didn't really understand what I was looking at. So I decided to compare it to the page map in another book I've read to see if there are any obvious differences...and none of the books I've read recently even HAVE page maps. So I made a copy of the problem book, deleted the page map, and voila! It functions as it should.

Weird, but I guess whatever works!

Thanks!

MG
What you may have found is a book created/modified by someone that has no clue!

A CSS or Pagemap is not a generic file. Each is custom to the book and can not simply be copied across from another book

A series may use a common CSS for a common Look , but the book must be coded to use the same stylesheet


Some publishers use a huge corporate 'Kitchen sink' CSS. That is: A set of styles for any occasion . This is not terrible if the book coder would clean up after the book has settled (Calibre Editor
and Sigil both include a tool that deletes unused styles from the CSS )