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Just wanted to put my two cents in...
I am going to call a page number based on physical, rendered screenfuls of text physical pages. I am going to use virtual pages to mean those where the page number is calculated, stored etc. and do not have a link to the number of rendered screens.
I want the following things from page numbers:
1) Progress indication - how much of the current book have I read versus how much left to read?
- Tie
2) Navigation - skip ahead/back by a number of pages
- Tie; maybe slight edge to physical numbers
3) Book length comparison - how many pages does this book have compared to that book?
- Physical numbers win as long as I stay on the same device and font but I read on multiple devices in many fonts
4) Portability - I want the same page number to represent the same block of text regardless of the device I am reading on and regardless of the text size I am reading at.
- Virtual wins
So for me, its pretty close, but virtual pages win by a tiny margin for me.
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