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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
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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Although publishers can create a page-map for their epubs, in many cases it's left to the epub renderer (when based on the Adobe engine ADE) to provide a 'fake estimate' pagecount. Unfortunately it's not based on anything so logical as wordcount, it uses an algorithm based on the compressed filesize of the HTML files in the epub.
It does have the benefit of being consistent across devices/apps but as a realistic estimate of how long to read the book I've always found it pretty useless. Any epub with bloated HTML markup (and there are many) can look like a long book. I clean up all my epubs before I read them (
sad, but true) and it's not unusual for the book's ADE pagecount to "lose" 50-60 pages after the excess markup was simplified. I think the biggest reduction I ever saw was 100+ pages.