[ratinox]

Let's take a book. Two different physical versions will have different page numbers. But the same ePub on different Readers using the ADE page numbers will be the same. That's consistent.

I'll reiterate:

Assume we both have the same reader with the same settings such that the same text on both is identical. Assume we also have the same edition of an illustrated ebook. Since it's the same ebook we see the same ADE faux pagination.

I take my copy of this book and remove the images; you leave the images in yours. Call mine my private edition. We now both read through 32 screens of our respective books. Your position in your edition is different from my position in my private edition even though they are the same faux page.

You open a different ebook and read 32 screens. Your reading position in this new book might have a correspondance with my reading position in my private edition but it has none with your illustrated copy of the book.

ADE pages are only consistent with a specific edition of a specific book. They are inconsistent across different editions of the same book and they are even less consistent across different books.

If you have a 6" Reader and you buy an 8" Reader and you know the page number you were on, you can go to that page on your new larger Reader. So you can pick up where you left off. Can't do that with 1 page = 1 screen.

I never said you could, and I happen to think that the 1 screen = 1 page idea is an even worse idea than ADE and Kepub faux pages. I'm only using screen flips in my example here because it's a consistency in our actions: same number of flips yielding different numbers of faux pages read.