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[FredK]

I wouldn’t recommend pagination (neither will others), especially not for an ebook, as it doesn’t make much sense.

That said, it would be interesting to see it used. What would the standard be, cut it after a x amount of paragraphs?

In my view it all depends on how you use pagination. Used the way described in the article you link to, as well as sources cited in it, I completely agree. This scenario is different though, it's not about "juicing page views", it's about keeping a natural page rhythm. To emulate the feel of a printed book. If you've seen inkpattern.com you know I'm all for emulating print matter on the web...

Anywho, the plugin: no per-paragraph cut. The user should decide page length. A page is a page no matter how long you make it. But at some point you want a new page rather than a new paragraph. Because it affects the reading rythm. So the idea is that having a paginator you can emulate the natural reading mode of a paper book, which is flipping pages. Next page; next page, wait ... go back, re-read, ok, next page. Or, you can try and find a specific page by its number. Try, I think it was page 132. Yeah, there, last three lines. Bookmarked.

Parent page = set pagination('sub-pages, all')
So that's what I'd like. In my opinion, it's a good use of pagination.
I'll put up what I have right now in a bit, including the manual pagination. Will put a link in this post when it's up. So it's clearer, what I'm after.

/* Edit */
The first throes of the book are here: http://frdk.com/untitled
You can follow the arrows, they're the current manual "pagination". The pagination I really want to do looks nothing like this of course, but it requires an automated paginator, because it should be placed in the theme file.
However, If I'm the only one that thinks this is a good idea then I wouldn't waste time on it...