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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
calibre's ebook viewer actually uses a progress indicator based on the length of the actual content (number of words), independent of reader screen size and font size.
All that's needed is for reader software makers to agree on a couple of simple algorithms:
1) Calculate the "length" of a book based on its word count
2) Assign numbers to every "block" of text. The natural block being a paragraph.
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You say "word count", but you should not forget that there are languages like Japanese or Chinese, which don't use spaces (for delimiting words) and have pretty sparse punctuation.