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Originally Posted by DNSB
I've played with reformatting an epub and changes in font size, line spacing and margins using a stylesheet don't seem to have much of an effect on the page numbers displayed. Recompressing the epub using an external archiver does have an effect as does changing the contents of the chapter files to modify the styles.
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I would argue that even small differences somehow invalidate the 'fixed reference' argument. What's the use of a 'not really fixed but probably pretty close' (pseudo-) page reference?
Additionally, from my experience, the html formatting styles used in books from different sources make a rather significant difference (+/- 30%) with regards to the amount of actually displayed characters per ADE 'page'. This weakens the argument that these page counts can be used to compare the length of books.
Thus the ADE page convention looks, to me, like a rather weak standard that is anyway restricted to a specific file format and used on a small number of devices.
... and I personally do not like it anyway since I prefer my e-reader to simulate paper books as close as possible and expect the page number to increase whenever I 'turn a page' :-)