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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
The only purpose I can think of is to help people who are familiar with reading paper books to estimate how long the chapters are via the number of pages in them. Since the library EPUBs I've read have had page numbers, I (erroneously) assumed this is what the page numbers represented. If the EPUB page numbers are in fact not based on a paper book, then I guess they are based on some arbitary metric of how many words "should" fit on a single page.
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How is that more arbitrary than the page numbers based on a paper edition? If anything, it's less so, as the page numbers of various paper editions vary wildly. You must know exactly which edition to estimate the length. The difference between a hardcover and a mass market paperback can be a couple of hundred pages, if not more.