CC page numbers for EPUB?

[kunkel321]

Hi Folks.
Does anyone know if it's possible to generate page numbers for .EPUB files in my Custom Columns? I have a mixed column setup that reads from the following for Word Docs and PDFs.


I'd like it to also show page numbers for EPUBs. MOBI files would be nice too.

[kunkel321]

Upon doing a bit of research, I'm thinking that ebook formats like EPUB or MOBI probably don't even have a "page number" property that can be read. The number of times a person has to "turn the page" to complete the book is relative to how many words fit on each page. And this depends upon things like font size and margin width and screen size.

I experimented and discovered that you can take an EPUB file and change the .epub to .zip, by renaming the file. Then you can unzip it and see its components. There are a couple of .css files that have info about font and margins, but that still doesn't get us closer to a solution. No big deal... I don't view EPUB files in XYplorer often anyway. They get imported to Calibre, where a third party plugin checks the page number by finding the book's metadata online via it's book title.