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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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Thanks to the many discussions about different page numbering systems used on e-readers, I am actually already comfortably familiar with the differences between Adobe and Kobo numbering. Neither format was specified in either my post or the one to which I replied. The person I was replying to said they were aware page numbers, quote, " vary over different formats". This is an age-old truth of
paper books, and so my question did not specify ebook formats, nor was it restricted to them.
People who are VERY vocal in insisting on a carved-in-stone, immutable system of "page numbers" for ebooks and object with (to me) rather bewildering vehemence at the idea that factors such as font size and line spacing can alter the number of "pages" displayed therein seem to have absolutely no such complaints or or difficulties with the long-established reality that factors such as physical page size and book format can alter the number of "pages" listed for differing editions of a book printed on paper. Hence my question: If page numbers are acknowledged as arbitrary, what is the
something they mean to the person whom I asked. Their response may not be the same as anyone else's, and it is their response I'm particularly interested in.