a few months back, amazon began pushing out support
in its kindle e-books for "real" page numbers, namely
the page numbers taken from a print version of the book.

>   http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/amazon-adds-real-page-numbers-to-kindle/

it ends up that humans don't like the idea of a book as
a formless blob of text.  who knew?  well, i did, for one...

-bowerbird

p.s.  um, and no, i won't entertain your arguments once again.
if you feel you must preach the doctrine of the formless blob,
go yabber at amazon.  thank you.  have a nice day.  peace out.