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Originally Posted by tompe
Because I do not like to stop reading the final part of a book so I want to know that I can finish the book before I have to sleep. If i cannot finish it I will read something else or do something else than reading.
But you also need the total length like you have in a paper book.
As I have said repeatedly. Total length plus current position (might be given in percentage but a position is better).
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And, with both ebooks & pbooks I've been confounded in estimating this due to a significant amount of 'advertising' at the end. (Sometimes it's appendices, but sometimes I want to read those. What's fooled me, most often, are the 20-page 'intros' to another book. I've often (well, maybe not *often* but more frequently than occasionally) put a book down because I estimated I had another hour's worth of reading to finish it-and discovered when I picked it up that I finished the actual book in 5 minutes.
So, whatever method is used it should relate, IMO, to the 'story' rather than the entire book. (I tend to think percentage is best as it covers, in a single statistic, both where you are & how much is left. But it fails to give you an idea of how long a book is before you start it-and the mention that it doesn't correlate well to time is also apropos, except for those who keep track of their time & therefore realize that it took them, for example, 2 hours to reach the 40% mark so they should have another 3 hours to go to finish the book.)