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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Serious, non-trolling question here: If you accept that page numbers vary by format, exactly what is the "something" they mean to you? If being at page 50 out of 100 on format A = being at page 75 out of 150 on format B, what is the advantage of these arbitrary progress markers over percentages, which would be format-agnostic?
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ADE page numbers used 1024 compressed bytes to equal one page. The page numbers do not change if you change the font, font size, line height, margins, turn the headers/footers on/off, etc. So you get used to a good enough idea of how long he book will be.
Access (the KePub renderer) used a similar page number style to ADE. It just used a different number of compressed bytes to represent a page. So if you regularly read KePub, you got used to the page numbers.
Now Kobo have changed the page numbers to be 1 page = 1 screen. So that totally changes the page numbers and they don't mean much of anything.