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Originally Posted by stumped
moon reader (epub) app does show pages in chapter, and reaclulates on the fly if you change a setting, but does not show pages left in book, probably because it only holds the current chapter in ram, and thus could not easily re-compute it.
a kindle - with its puny cpu, would struggle to recalculate the pages left in some war and peace length tome in an acceptable number of minutes ( and it probably would be minutes, not seconds)
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I use KOReader and no, it does not take minutes to recompute page count on a 600K word EPUB.
It takes KOReader ~30s to open the EPUB and cache render info (in storage) which includes total page count. After that, page turns are practically instantaneous (at least as fast as they can be on e-ink). I've set the status bar on mine to display Current Page / Total # of Pages so easy enough to subtract (and quite trivial for the Kindle's puny CPU to calculate although I don't know if Page Left in Book is an option to show in KOReader's status bar). Yes, the page count changes when you change font size and unfortunately, that takes 30s as well since it re-renders the entire book all at once at the new font size.
Still, 30s probably feels like forever just for changing font size so I expect the Kindle native renderer just renders on a chunk by chunk basis.