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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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What I mean is that while there is
some variation between paper books and eBooks — and even ePub eBooks between one seller and another, there is relative correlation. A Western (for example) is going to be about 200 pages. A novel will be somewhere between 300 and 700 pages, etc. And the Adobe ePub page numbering scheme is designed to show this. Then comes this new KePub system where page numbers can vary from 200 to 20,000 (depending on size of font, etc.) and that just makes page numbering useless.
If I convert Kindle azw3 books (for example) to ePub in Calibre, the page number will be the same whether I read the book on one of my Tolinos, one of my Nooks, one of my Sonys or even my old Jetbook Lite or my EZReader. This is what I mean when I say page numbers mean something to me. There should be some kind of relative consistency — not necessarily one-to-one but to something close.