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Originally Posted by DNSB
Don't forget that the CSS can and does mess with font sizes. Even if you assign a numerical point size unless you want that point size to override the CSS, the font size can vary both inside a book and from book to book. Let's not get into the can of worms that comes up when you notice that different fonts will not be exactly the same size on screen if your ebook has multiple embedded fonts such as one recent horrible example which had 6 embedded fonts with a total of 12 font files.
And I may be misunderstanding you but if I am using Adobe's synthetic page numbers or Kobo's page per screen, I would still see xxx of yyy for the page number. So 139 pages of 158 or 248 of 282 or 88% give me pretty much the same information. if I change the font size in a kepub, I might see the display change from 248 of 282 to 211 of 239 but unless you are only paying attention to the first number and not the ratio between the two, it's still the same amount left.
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My frustration is with not being able to compare the length of one book to another. With ADE numbers all books are based on the same standard. With the screen numbers, unless you can manage to set your font exactly the same size every time it's harder to compare.
Some people in the long Kobo thread pointed out that word count would be a better, more consistent system. I expect I'd be OK with that once I got used to it.
I hope somewhere in the middle of all our sidetracks about registration privacy and page numbering swimon got some useful info......