How to start page numbering, at the first page, in arabic, and continue till the end of the document?

Question

I'm using the book class to write a thesis.
I would like the page numbering to start at the first page.
So the TOC looks like

1,3,5

wheter than

i, 1, 3

I have from

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass[12pt]{book}

\usepackage{tocbibind}
\usepackage[toc]{appendix}
\usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

    \frontmatter  

        \tableofcontents

    \mainmatter  

        \chapter{main}

    \begin{appendices}

        \chapter{appendix}

    \end{appendices}

\end{document}

Answer 1

Just don't issue \frontmatter at all, since it's technically not needed if you want to start with \arabic numbering. As such, \mainmatter also become superfluous. Your document would therefore have the following structure:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{tocbibind}
\usepackage[toc]{appendix}
\usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{main}

\begin{appendices}

\chapter{appendix}

\end{appendices}

\end{document}