I've always found the page number debate rather confusing. I'm definitely one who likes to know where they are in a book and the page number just seems to make the most sense. It's what has been built into our perspective since we first learned to read.
I understand that font sizes will change the number of pages in a book, but can't we just recalculate the number of pages in respects to the larger font size? This is how the Sony does it and it works very well. You can easily see where you are relative to the total length of the book. This just seems to be one of those paradigms that doesn't need to change just because we are now using an electronic medium. I know there are different perspectives on this, but I guess I just don't understand the point.
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