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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Page numbers are only useful, IMHO, if you want to reference the paper edition -- and in that case, you want verified page numbers, not autogenerated ones.
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If you use Count Pages, and set a specific number of characters per page (I use 2400, so approximately 400 words per page), the number is very useful in knowing how long a book will be. A book having 500 pages will be exactly twice as long as one having 250 pages.
If you know how fast you read, lets say, 30 'pages' per hour, you can determine almost exactly how long a book will take you to finish.
In paper books, this is not the case of course, as page numbers depend on font, font size, margins, whitespace, illustrations, and so on. Count pages ignores all that so page number counting is equal for all books.