Automatic Hyperlinking of a 30,000 page InDesign Document

Hello,
I am trying to figure out how to best develop a system of automatic hyperlinking in an InDesign document (I know this is usually done small-scale and manually). This document will eventually be exported as an e-book or interactive PDF. Ideally, users would be able to click a link within the document and it would lead them to another link internally, further down in the document. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to best incorporate a more technical program into InDesign, or how to go about this? Any help would be much appreciated. Also, is anyone aware of how to create this document so that updates that are added to the 30,000 pages can be automatically 'pushed' to the subscribers or readers Desktop?
Thank you very much,
Ali
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You have facing pages, so you should set up your document as document with facing pages.
You should have done it with New document but you can change it with File > Document Setup.
You will have to change your master to 2 pages and to allow to shuffle the pages.
Shifting pages are shifted when you use the page tool. It can happen more easily with non facing pages.
Was there a specific reason, why you choose not to use facing pages at the first place?
With the page tool you can shift pages.

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