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On 01/14/2016 08:07 AM, Don Y wrote:

How do ebook pages compare to print pages? E.g., can you provide a count
for some (popular) title that I could contrast with a print version?
And, does page count vary based on (chosen) font size?


Yes, if you choose a larger or smaller font the page is reflowed. There
is a percentage given but not a page count.

This is really apples and codfish since I don't have a book as small as
the Kindle screen, but a Per Wahloo detective story in a English
paperback has about 300 words on a full page. The paperback is 8x5 with
a fairly dense text format. A Asa Larsson mystery (in German) on the
Kindle has about 160 but the Kindle screen is 5x3.5. An English novel
with a little more dialog to break up the page was 150.

I'm not sure it's a meaningful metric. The percentage is equivalent to
looking at a paper book and gauging how far along you are. I believe the
newer models try to predict how long it will take you to finish based on
your reading rate.