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Originally Posted by rcentros
Or, on the other hand, there's no real good reason to convert. People in the United States, for example, understand miles and Fahrenheit. Who cares if it matches the rest of the world? If the standard unit of measure was an average jack rabbit hop, times 221.7, and everyone was used to that, why should they change to some other standard? What's wrong with using what we're accustomed to? Why should we change for the sake of changing?
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Accuracy? There's a reason metric is used in the hard sciences even in the US, to get everyone on the same page, if you'll pardon the pun.
The aim on the thread was to create a system which is consistent, but it's doing that by establishing a false base as the setting (a physical book of a chosen edition), and inflicting the pages there to ebooks. Which of course falls apart if there's a different edition of the book in physical form say as a large print edition.
Meanwhile 500 words into a 'regular print', ebook, and large print of the same book will get you to the same spot regardless of typography, or page size.