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Originally Posted by andavane
I was also confused by locations in the beginning, until I learned to look at it another way:
If I have a book with a certain paragraph I like on say page 58, that para will only be on the same page in another book in the same edition. When they bring out a new edition, my favourite para will, like as not, be on a different page. This has led to confusions. In one case when I was moderator on another forum I had to make frequent requests to members kindly to refer to which edition they were referring. Editions which were out of print never had the same page numbers as the newer editions, and this caused confusion galore.
You could use the word 'page' if you wanted to. Example:
In this copy of Tale of Two Cities, my location (page) is:
3548-56 / 6053.
Let's expand this to: 3548-3556 / 6053.
So you could think of the book as having 6053 little pages, and the page I'm on contains all the pages between 3,548-3,556.
You could if you want take a mean point and say you're on page 3,552 / 6053.
We could divide both sides by ten if we wanted, so if the book was 605 pages long, I'd be on page 355, or just over half way. 59% of the way through.
At least, that's the way I see it  |
Yeah, after I read your post I figured out how I can convert the 4727 locations in my book to the page number I need. It was not hard to figure out at the end. Still page numbers would be better for my use.
I think the next Kindle should be with folder support, Wacom touch screen and support more formats (c'mon, at least Epub). Other than that I like the device.