Breaking Dynamic Content into Pages...

I'm trying to determine the best way to break dynamic content into pages before flowing into a template (with "1|2|3" type paging icons at the bottom of the page). I considered using a user-defined type code like "[pagebreak]" that would allow content contributors to determine the page breaks themselves when entering the article into the database. A parsing function would grab the chunk of text/html between the appropriate [pagebreak] codes for each page. But this just doesn't seem a very elegant solution. Anyone know of a better way to do this? Thanks! Monty