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Old 10-26-2014, 02:44 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Geralt View Post
So new books without paper version use estimated book count at least on amazon page.
Now I have a paperwhite 2, and the Age of Witches on my kindle has 423 pages. On amazon it has 330 pages. So why does my kindle lie? I am in an offline mode.

If this is too off topic, I apologize, you can ignore this question if I'm steering the topic away from OP too much.
In my experience, books that don't have an hb/pb copy do not get ANY page numbers, at least, when viewing the book from your actual Kindle.

And if you have transferred the book via calibre's send-to-device, then by default it will create a pseudo-page-numbers APNX based on an arbitrary guess.
(I always turn this off, I prefer no page numbers to fake ones.)

The Kindle does not display page numbers unless it was sent an APNX (calibre or Amazon servers makes no difference).

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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
I don't know. Maybe it adjusts to your font settings? If you've set your style/size/line-height rather different from what Amazon estimates as their standard paper page equivalent, it seems like you could be easily be getting more/less quantity of actual page turns when you read.
Page numbers are based off file offsets, not the current font size. For pretty much that exact reason, I'd assume.
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