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Originally Posted by rcentros
I wouldn't say silly. Even if each page is four or five screens, at least with the old style page numbering you have a general idea of the length of the book.
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I have no issues with using a page count utility to get an idea of how long it will take to read the book. If the algorithm used to generate the page counts is moderately reliable, the results are useful enough.
What I find silly is the people who expect to find meaningful page numbers in an ebook. You can find some ebooks that have pagelists, one example being a recent purchases by my wife which has the pagelist entries to match the original hardcover release of the book. An idea that sounds great but sadly since her book club is mostly reading various paperback or ebook editions, those numbers are rather useless.