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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
When I read an ePub on my Nook (that's where I read ePubs), I tap the screen and a slider comes up telling me how many pages are in a chapter. If it says a chapter is 15 pages, I will have to tap the screen anywhere between 18 and 35 times. When it says there are 2 pages left I may have to read 2, 3 or 4 screens. Possibly five. So yeah, it can vary by 100% (or more).
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What you are discussing is the screen page/ratio. What was being discussed was the total number of pages shown by using the Adobe synthetic page algorithm. jackie-w commented how by removing unused and complex CSS which does reduce the size of the text files, the number of pages shown by that algorithm would also reduce. She mentioned losing 50-60 pages and on one occasion, 100 pages. Which a nameless one choose to read as 100%.
As has been made clear in past wars, my opinion is that pages and reflowable text on different screen sizes, font sizes, margins, etc. are at best humourous. The only good thing with the Adobe algorithm is that it is independent of those. Page 348 in an epub will be page 348 no matter what device/screen size/font/font size/etc. the epub is being read on as long as the exact same epub is being read.