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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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".
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The difference, of course, is when you have a printed book you can
SEE the size of it. You can feel the heft of it. An eBook, on the other hand, is just a screen of text, now with a meaningless "page" count. You haven't got a clue what the length of the book is. My 9 books series (mentioned in another post) was 2,744 "pages" in the old scheme (which was close to the printed series), the same sized font produces about 7,000 "pages." in the new firmware. I'm not asking for exact correlation with printed books, I'm asking for relative correlation, which is what we
did have in the old firmware.