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In the thread that inspired this, one person mentioned more than once that his desire for page numbers had a lot to do with reading short stories in a compilation. Without page numbers (and a table of contents that reflects them, I assume), he couldn't tell how far along he was in a short story.
One approach to solving a problem like that might be a change to the file format to store chapter bookmarks, then a change to the reader to display progress within a chapter in place of/in addition to the progress display for the document as a whole. That would involve less work on the reader device's part than pagination, anyway. Since I haven't seen a format that provides a dynamic table of contents with page numbers (just with hyperlinks), accurate page numbers in a list of chapters/stories would involve a change to reader software anyway. It seems like right now the best approach is to select a chapter in the table of contents, note the page it takes you to, then go back and select the following chapter, so you can compare the page numbers.
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