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Originally Posted by EricGagne
Ooopppss ! Sorry, I didn't realize I posted in French in an English forum.
What I said is one thing I noticed and don't like is that informations about the books don't include the number of pages.
Just 2 days ago I bought a book on Mobipocket only to realize after that I paid way too much for a book of only 75 pages.
I think ebook stores should include that information, I think it's reasonable to know how much reading time a book will give you before paying 25$ for it.
Everyone who buys ebooks online should complain to their stores if the number of pages isn't specified.
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Page count is a poor measure for eBooks. How do you count? eBook pages?, paper book pages? Which edition? What size screen? What font size? mobipocket does not even know the number of pages but counts as it goes. While I think it is reasonable to know the size of the book I do not agree that page count is the way to go. Character count, word count or something based on these values can be useful. For example FBreader uses 2048 bytes as a page and computes values based on that. ADE ePUB computes pages based on 1024 characters (which may be multibyte).
Dale