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Originally Posted by 4691mls
For me, the main use of having some kind of consistent page numbering is being able to quickly judge comparative length of books. If most of the books I read were between, say, 300 - 400 ADE pages and I opened a new book and saw it was only 150, or over 500, then I would know the book was shorter or longer than my usual.
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I agree with this. I don't really care what algorithm is used, but I want to know approximately how many pages (or screens or whatever) the book has so that I can compare it with other books, as well as to gauge my own daily reading average. Percentage is next to useless for me. I am currently reading a 2500+ "page" book. 1% of 2500 pages is far different than 1% of a 150-"page" book. I am not looking for absolute accuracy to some rigidly defined standard--I just want to compare different books' lengths and also have some idea of how much I read each day. Page numbers (even "faux" page numbers) are the easiest, most intuitive way I've found to do this.