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Originally Posted by rcentros
Except page counts have been the standard since printed books were printed and people know the relative length of a 500 page books when compared to a 200 page books (for example).
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Yes when books were printed. I don’t know about you but I don’t print my ebooks.
It’s not the same media. You wanting it to be the same doesn’t change that. It’s like insisting we use page counts for audiobooks. It makes no sense and it never will.
While I don’t think it’s perfect going off one screen to ‘page’ tells you exactly how many taps it’s going to take for you to get to the end. And sure that it’s adjusted based on font size, screen size, etc makes referencing it harder for academic usage it’s not like physical books are immune to the same issue with different formats.
And again you know exactly how many taps it’s going to take to get you to the end of a kepub. With ADE and the old kepub system you didn’t because a ‘page’ could end three lines into a new screen.
You’re neglecting to mention that in the current system in an x of y pages of you adjust settings while y goes up so to does x. It’s not like new pages are generated at the end of the book. So you still have the same relative position.