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Old 09-12-2010, 09:46 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
They are equally no help for that. Suppose you're talking about a book like, say, "Pride and Prejudice" with 100 different paper editions, each of which is going to be paginated differently. What use is a page number for that? All that's meaningful to give if you want to direct someone to a particular location in the book is a chapter reference.
I agree! Chapters --and sections-- definitely help and I'm for using them whenever possible. I was just comparing the relative merits of "Locations Vs. Screen counts."

On that question, I don't think they're equally no help, for the reason I gave:

A ratio of screens views to paper pages can be calculated. A ratio of bytes to paper pages cannot be calculated.

It isn't a deal breaker; I'm very happy with my Kindle

I just wish they'd give me the page option, like I wish they'd give directories and epub support.

I understand no epub, but the only thing I can see locations being better at is locating a word or sentence inside an exact matching file version of title. It's not like the 100 editions of Pride and Prejudice will have consistent locations.
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