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Originally Posted by shalym
...And this line of reasoning only holds true for books that have a large number of images. Whitespace and margins shouldn't matter, really--if there is 2400 characters on a typical page in a paperback, then it should be the same, since there are margins and whitespace in a paperback, too. A large number of images would make a difference, of course.
Shari
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Whitespace and margins do matter a lot.
If one chapter ends halfway down the left page, and the next starts halfway down the right page, a paper book will have "lost" an entire page. If the book is printed with a lot of margin (my paper version of Lord of the Rings is huge, as it has about 4/5th of an inch of margins all around the text), it will use more pages.
The Count Pages plugin cannot take this into account. It just counts characters, and that's it. Therefore it behaves as if the book is printed as a wall of text with zero margins, no whitespace between chapters; not even indentations for paragraphs.