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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It could be that enough people complained about page numbers and wanted them for KePub to be one page = one screen. Just like iBooks and other programs that don't do page numbers correctly. ADe page numbers are quite good and you do get used to them based on your settings.
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FSVO "correctly".
As I noted previously a few times, ebooks don't have pages which means that the technically most correct way to paginate ebooks is not to paginate them at all.
Adobe page numbers is just another misguided attempt at applying physical book skeuomorphism to things that don't behave like physical books. And they have no correspondance with actual pages anyway. They're just counts of 1000 characters (IIRC) which makes them a lousy way to display percentages because you have to divide by the total "page" count to get something meaningful.
The progress bar shows you useful information in an unobtrusive and more accurate fashion, and percentage displays provide increased accuracy if you really need it.
While I generally dislike change for the sake of change, and I really don't like it when things I come to rely on disappear, I think the new UI is a significant improvement. Remove the faux page numbers entirely and it'll be close to perfect.