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I think I hear what you're saying, SlowRain. I am like that with back cover copy: sometime I need it to decide if I want to read the book, but if I have already made up my mind, I try NOT to read the back cover copy, because it gives too much away and I like that disoriented feeling trying to figure out what is going on at the beginning of a book.
And definitely the page numbers help me orient myself with the narrative structure, just as the time does with tv shows and movies on tv (movies in the theater are different because I don't know exactly when the movie is going to end... so in that way it is a more immersive experience).
But I don't think I can try your experiment because I don't think my reader allows for turning off the page numbers.
Oh and unlike others here, chapters mean nothing to me. I might stop reader one page before the chapter ends, or after the first paragraph of a new chapter. I stop when I want to stop (usually when I'm falling asleep).
eP
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