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Originally Posted by tomsem
People who want page numbers want them for a variety of reasons (some more reasonable than others), and these requirements are in some conflict with each other.
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from my perspective the main hassle with page numbers is when a book references itself (very common in some material) and says things like 'see the note on page xyz for more info on this' or 'see page yyy for an example' etc.
I think that either these 'see page xyz' should be dynamically recalculated (would be more difficult to do) or there should be a way to say 'send me approximately to page xyz of the print edition of the book' which wouldn't be very hard to do since Amazon would know how many pages the pbook had, so you could do a % based guess of where you should be
For reading fiction I agree page numbers are fairly useless, but some books cross-reference themselves a lot in a way that makes them difficult to follow on a kindle.