I don't see anything "irrational and illusionary" about this discussion. Not
my side of it, that is.
Yes, I'm mystified as to why you, Jon, Kris or others would insist to call a "page" something that (for non-geeks) clearly is
not a page... but that is really something for you folks to consider.
I'm not trying to monopolize the term "page" for my interpretation of it. Nope – if Marvin gives us various page-numbering options, and ADE is one of them, so that Jon can select it, I'm perfectly fine with that. But Marvin should also offer us the
logical and natural page-numbering option such as that available in iBooks. There is no getting around
that.
Before you give us arbitrary numbering schemes, give us the
natural stuff first, please.
You've got to admit that the situation is pretty bad for Marvin if I need to introduce iBooks (!) as a shining example to follow.