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Now I track page counts, I do find it mildly annoying when a book doesn't have them, but it never bothered me at all before they did that. As a reader I really only care about two things: the overall scale of the project, and how far through it I am. Both of those were handled reasonably well by my kindle before they added page number support. The dot trail told me if a book was long, and the percentage told me where I was. I guess by adding real page numbers they've actually stopped people from becoming familiar with Locations.
At the moment, it's slightly more annoying to me when a book does have page numbers but they are hopelessly inaccurate. I've just finished a "622-page" ePub whose shortest paper equivalent is 719 pages. It means I need to decide whether to correct for the inaccuracy or just go with the lower count. I've done the latter this time, but the former with other recent examples.
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