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Originally Posted by darryl
But look on the bright side. You've managed to take the opportunity to engage in some evangelism for EPub and even ADE. Impressive.
Having said that, it appears that the vast majority like to have some indication of progress at least available to them if not visible. Some do prefer that indication to be page numbers. Only the OP seems to want page numbers identical with the page numbers in some edition of a print book.
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What surprises me is that I almost never use page numbers in a print (fiction) book, either. Sure, if I am setting a "mental" bookmark, I want to know a page number; but I'm more likely to simply slap a physical bookmark in it than I am to stare at the page number, pondering the imponderable mysteries of how long it will take me to read the rest, or, that MUCH bigger question--how many pages left in the chapter?
I don't get the obsession with "real" page numbers. Other than non-fic bookmarking/footnotes/reference indicia, what difference does it make? The idea of a page, in an eBook, is so far beyond illusory that it's absurd. Hell, you wouldn't even likely get the same page counts for the same book on a Voyage and a PPW, and those two are 1st-degree cousins.
{shrug}
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