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Originally Posted by HarryT
It certainly can have page numbers, but I think that what Derek is saying is that on a machine such as the Gen3, which allows you to view the text in a limitless range of different fonts and text sizes, those page numbers cannot be sensibly used to refer to a particular point in the text, which is what tompe was suggesting. It's different on the Sony Reader where the user can't change the font, and there are only three text sizes available.
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I was suggesting two things. The easy way to just display the page number would be useful and it does not matter that it changes when I changes font size. If I would like to read one tenth of a book I can easily do that having the current page number and the total number of pages. Now it is not so easy to read a specific amount of the book.
The other thing was to have real page numbers (displayed for example in the margin) corresponding to the printed version. That is not only useful in academic situations as discussed in the thread about this but useful when discussing the book with friends.