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Originally Posted by brainycat
I wish the PRS-600 firmware would give up on page numbers. There's the page count at the bottom of the screen, then those mildly annoying page numbers to the right of the text. I feel they're irrelevant to digital formats. I wish they'd replace them with a percentage of the file size, and even if they count the CSS towards the total, it'd be more meaningful to me than page numbers.
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The text on the side is going away it looks like. Who knows if the 600 will get a firmware update, but the 900 doesn't use the page index numbers on the right side anymore, and leaves it simply to the page number on the bottom (which will also now say things like: 280-281 of 505, if the displayed page crosses a page boundary).
Page numbers tend to be fairly arbitrary already (because the size of the print page and the font used is), so I don't see anything wrong in continuing the tradition, especially since an ePub should show up with the same page count on multiple devices for the most part. It at least lets me cite an ePub (much like the Kindle locations) and have good expectations that someone trying to find the cited material won't go nuts trying to find the text.