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I regard "real" page numbers in ebooks as a skeuomorphism. Page numbers are an artifact of a physical book, which has a fixed number of pages of a fixed size and can be numbered for reference. Re-flowable ebooks clearly don't share this physical property and there are other ways to provide reference points. For me personally some method of finding my place and knowing how far through I am is desirable (but not essential). Lots of ways to achieve that, I don't get hung up on one in particular.
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