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Originally Posted by rcentros
Ridicule always helps in any argument, doesn't it? In the old scheme the original hardback might be 450 pages and the eBook might be 530 pages (numbers pulled out of a hat). No, not the same, but something that at least "correlates," a general idea of book length. With the screen-per-page scheme, change the font size and the page count can be anything, 200 pages to 4,000 pages. It's totally meaningless.
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Page numbers in physical books are also totally meaningless.
My hardcover version of Shogun is 920 pages.
My girlfriend's paperback version is 1100-something pages.
My ebook version, when counting with my own scheme of 2100 characters (350 words per page), is 1276 "pages".
I don't even really care what the e-reader says. To me, the ebook is 1276 pages, and if the ereader makes 1400 or 1531 out of that because of the one page per screen scenario, I'm fine with that.
The only thing I need to know, is that if I'm at 10%, I'll be at
MY page 127 out of 1276.
Using your own count also means that a book of 600 "pages" actually is about twice the length of a book that has 300 "pages".