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The problem with the page count in Goodreads statistics is that for those of us who read a lot of ebooks, it's quite likely that some of the editions in the database don't have a page count attached to them (not to mention it can vary wildly, ADE page counts in particular often being considerably lower than any paper edition page counts, but that's the case also with various paper editions) - so it's not at all impossible that some books read don't show under the page count at all.
I usually do try to pick an ebook edition that has a page count attached to it, even if it's not the exact same edition I'm reading, but it's not always possible (and I don't always feel up to trying to hunt down some kind of "official" page count for that edition and add a new entry or edit the existing entry, even though I have Librarian status there).
So this is one reason why I'm doing challenges by number of books, not number of pages - the other reason is that with reading on the Kindle, counting number of separately existing items just seems to make more sense (for me, that is). And another reason is to cut down on the TBR list / not acquire more books than I read this year, so for that, both challenging myself to a specific number of titles as well as marking individually released items as individual reads, even if it's a short story, also seems to work better in my case.
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