05-02-2016, 01:54 PM | #16 | |
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I thought it would come pre-registered (it's a loaner review unit) but apparently not. I never connected it to Wifi, so it is technically unregistered. Edit: And Thanks! |
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05-02-2016, 02:00 PM | #17 |
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That would certainly explain it! A lot of the menu items on the Kindle only appear when it's registered. Sorry, it didn't occur to me that your device might not be registered.
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05-02-2016, 02:02 PM | #18 |
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05-02-2016, 06:41 PM | #19 |
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I hope they keep the percentage counter too. I find that much more useful! (I know this makes me a heretic and lower than the lowest beast.)
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05-02-2016, 11:15 PM | #20 | |
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Still, % is also not great, I'm no heretic about that opinion. I assume (having checked a few of my books) it is computed something very much like this: (currentLocation/totalLocations)*100, rounded to nearest whole number But to make sense of the % you would also need to know total number of locations (not to mention knowing what a location is), which is what the dots attempted to convey, but fail to do so (because it is not a linear scale, and seems to be a 'dynamic' scale at that, seems to depend on the biggest book you happen to have on the device). Moreover, the dots don't work so well on Grid View, because they must obscure some significant portion of the precious cover images, even as the dot scale gets even cruder.So I would propose displaying the 'missing piece of data' by mapping Reading Progress Preference to something like the following (with List View): "Book A: 74%, 72 pages remaining" (if RPP=Page in book) -or- "Book A: 74%, 45m remaining" (if RPP=Time left in chapter or in book) -or- "Book A: 74% of 3667 locations" (if RPP=Location in book) -or- "Book A: 74%" (if RPP=None) For both List and Grid view, have the '⋮' button that brings up the book options display this same reading progress text in the heading under Title/Author. Last edited by tomsem; 05-02-2016 at 11:24 PM. |
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05-02-2016, 11:23 PM | #21 |
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05-03-2016, 06:30 AM | #23 | |
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05-03-2016, 12:45 PM | #24 |
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A little off topic but,
I don't like novellas or short stories so I tend to stay away from books less than 200 pages. One pet peeve of mine is when authors pad the page count on short books by adding multiple "sneak peeks" at the end. I have seen books where 75% is the end of the book and the rest is filler. |
05-03-2016, 01:14 PM | #25 |
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I have a couple of ideas for the dots and % thing but because it's all actually quite sensible, I can't see Amazon implementing either
1) add an option to have a choice of dots, %, or nothing displayed; or 2) if a book hasn't been started, show the dots to give people a feel of how big a book is - you know like when you look at a pbook - but switch to display % once a book has been started |
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05-03-2016, 01:47 PM | #28 |
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Publishers, including the big 5, have been adding padding like that long before KU was a thing, but yes it does seem to be prolific among some KU authors.
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I don't mind a teaser like what will the protagonist get into next but at least resolve something. The worst one had to be when not only did the author not resolve anything but threw in a second problem at the end. The author had heard leave your book on a cliffhanger so the reader will have to buy the next one. |
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