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Originally Posted by Faterson
Keep your day job, because you fail miserably in that regard.
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If that is all you have to say to my last two posts...
But I beg you to keep in mind this thing called a "joke".
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Of course – that's the common-sense, everyday reader's use of pages, not for the outlandish, geeky purpose of cross-referencing them to other layout settings, devices, apps, or platforms. But don't you dare use common sense here in MobileRead forums – it's the geeks' playground here, scratching each other's backs, and common sense is decidedly frowned upon here.
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Nothing outlandish or geeky about it. You have completely misunderstood my position it seems.
"Pages" are inconsistent enough that I want to see them disappear entirely. And for cross-reference purposes, there are better ways introduced by the electronic age (cf. EPUB CFI).
Those new methods also provide ways to reference your current location in a standards-based manner which can be (but unfortunately isn't) implemented in
any reading system.
With hyperlinks!
I will grudgingly admit that for the purpose of legacy compatibility with pre-existing paper-based cross-referencing instances, a Real Page Numbers mapping possesses some use, and therefore we might as well standardize on that as much as any other legacy "pages" concept.
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Exactly. I have nothing against the current pseudo-"page" count method in Marvin, as long as it's not the only one, because if it's the only available page-count option, it constitutes an in-your-face internal conflict within Marvin itself, in that it calls pages in chapters and pages in books the same thing, but calculates them in radically different manners, on the same reading device, using the same layout settings, within a single footer (!) on the same screen. Really, what could be more glaringly unacceptable, from the point of view of software consistency? 
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I happen to agree that Marvin should consistently call the same thing the same thing.
But you seem to spend more of your time arguing about other aspects of your "pages" crusade.