Thread: What do you say when asked what page you're on?
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Old 07-24-2010, 11:08 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite View Post
Thank you I was a bit confused as my current location read 156-61 but I guess that means the page starts with paragraph 156 and displays up to 161. The range changed as I changed fonts. I wasn't sure why they didn't display the final digit so I went to paragraph 199 and it showed 199-203 so they obviously hide this digit on purpose. At least I now know what to type into the "go to location" field!
No, that's incorrect. Location numbers on the Kindle are not "paragraph numbers"; they are units of 128 bytes in the file, so you have 8 locations per 1k, 8192 locations per MB.
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