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Re:Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels by dendriti on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:16AM (#31420381)
Some Amazon Kindle books DO have "real" page numbers. It's an additional feature that must be supported. The problem of page numbers on reflowable text is much more difficult than it may appear.
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Re:Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels by alanbernstein on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @05:58AM (#31420895)
Not totally trivial, sure, but I have a hard time believing that it's difficult. Maybe for complex documents, but just plain text? Not really. I use Moonreader on Android, it shows page numbers with no trouble.
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