I don't have this problem with long chapters, but I do have this problem with eBooks. I don't have any way to easily gauge how much I have left to read.
I had that problem with my old (very old) nook, but I recently had to replace that, and now I'm using a Kobo Aura. One of the nice things it does is tell you the percentage of the novel you've read. And it's not intrusive, you have to tap the page to get all those options to come up, then wait a second and the time will flip over to percentage read.
It still isn't quite the same as holding a physical book in your hand and seeing those pages melt away, but it's the best digital alternative I've seen so far.
Lee Child is one of my favorite authors, and one thing he taught me (even though I choose to write YA and not adult) is to end the scene with something the reader desperately wants answered. He's very good at pulling this off, so even if you pause and set the book down to go cook dinner, you're thinking about coming back to his story the whole time.
Heh. This little trick is exactly why I now make it
habit to stop mid-chapter. I have a rule, especially at bedtime, never to read to a chapter's end.
I have also been known to stop in the middle fighting or action scenes. The reason is essentially the same for both--the rise of tension, of wanting to see where a plot thread is going is what keeps my eyes glued to the page, even long after I should have stopped. So I cut off either in a calm plateau, or during an action scene. The calm plateau is self explanatory as to why. The action scene also makes it easy because it's the
payoff. Now I
know where the plot was headed and no longer have to wonder, so it's easier to walk away. Plus coming back to such scenes is always a pleasure.
I remember when I was a kid, chapters were playful things. 20-30 pages wasn't uncommon, but they could be interspersed with shorter chapters, 15 pages, or 10, or 5...or one lonely page all by itself. What always enthralled me was how the varied lengths did a lot to both set and carry the mood of the book, the formatting acting much like cinematic background music does in a movie. It's a trick I don't see used that often anymore, and even then mostly from authors who were active way back when. I kind of miss it.
I don't think there's a proper length for a chapter, honestly; it's whatever works best for the book. Section breaks offer logical places to stop for those who can't bring themselves to walk away mid-sentence, and those tend to be much, much shorter than the average chapter. Honestly, if the writing is engaging enough chances are the reader won't even notice those chapter headings.