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Originally Posted by Zero9
The page numbers in ePubs tend to be pretty close to at least one edition of a given book; not close enough to switch between eBook and paper book without scanning a few pages to find where you are, but close enough to say "I'm half way through my 300 page book" and know you'd be saying the same thing if you were reading paper.
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What ePub does - or at least, ADE implementations of ePub - is to count pages in 1k "blocks", so a 300k book will have 300 pages (slightly complicated by the fact that a hard page break will force a new page start). As you rightly say, this does seem to correspond reasonably well to the amount of text on the page of the typical paperback.
The ADE method also has the benefit of being independent of font size and screen size, so that "page x" will be the same point in the book for anyone reading using a device with ADE.