Page Count about pyshelf HOT 3 CLOSED

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40561575

reflowable means that there is no pre-determined pagination, hence the text "flows" to adapt to the reading device screen size and to the font height/margin/line spread choices of the user. It is basically like a Web site (= set of Web pages), packaged into a single ZIP file. This is by far the most common flavor of EPUB.

If you have reflowable EPUBs, there is no intrinsic concept of page. Some reading applications compute the "number of pages" by counting the number of characters in the text, and then dividing this number by some constant (e.g., 1024 characters/page). But of course this is just a rough estimate and it does not necessarily correspond to the number of "screens" needed to display the text, which, again, depends on the typographical choices of the reading application and the user (font size, margin, line spread, etc.). Some other reading applications just display a % progress, computed using the number of characters of the text seen so far divided by the total number of characters in the text.

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Thanks for the link I think this may be exactly what I was looking for!
Already having access to the individual pages i can scrape the contents and do the division to return a generalized representation of pages.

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For the time being im going to let page count be handled by the reader exclusively

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