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On the new Paperwhites and Voyages you can set it to show the reading time left in the chapter. The device monitors your reading speed to keep this as accurate as it can. I've never done any serious tests of it's accuracy and I'd be surprised if it was anymore than a ballpark guess but for me it usually seems about right.
By the way, the Kindle can also use locations. It can show you at the bottom of the screen how many locations you've read in the book. Each page is likely to have more than one location, depending on the font size, so you can gauge your progress through the book.
As I understand it a location is 128 characters, which includes non-printable characters. My current book, a fairly long one, has 10,482 locations and I'm currently at location 5131. This doesn't give you more information than page numbers but it is finer grained and, I think, a little more intuitive.
Kobos, using epubs I make from my Kindle books with Calibre, doesn't give me much useful progress information. It's one of the few things I dislike about my Kobos. However, if at the start of each chapter I navigate to the next chapter and make a mental note of it's page number and then go back, remembering that number, I can sort of gauge my own progress through the chapter. It's not as satisfying as what the Kindle does but it's okay.
On my Nook Glowlight Plus I can always see my current page number and always see the page number of the next chapter in the table of contents so that gives me something to go by. Again, not particularly satisfying but it's better than nothing. It gives me no progress information other than the bar graph at the bottom of the page.
The best solution is Moon+ Reader on my phone and tablet. It gives me two numbers in parentheses following the chapter number at the bottom of every page of text. The second number is, I think, the number of pages in the chapter. The first number is the number of pages I've read in the chapter so far. That gives me an idea of the length of the chapter and my progress in it.
Barry
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