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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
So what printed page is Sony's page number based on? Hardcover? Trade Paperback? Mass Market Paperback? US version or UK?
I just don't get people's beef with locations at all. They give you a quick and easy way to determine exactly where you are in a book. What good would it do to give you the corresponding "page number" of a version of the book that you're NOT currently reading?
A page number is a reference point in the book you are reading. A location number is a reference point in the book you are reading. Is the main beef really all about terminology?
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Because I know what a 300 page feels like. And I know what being 200 pages into a 300 page feels like. I have no idea what a 10438 location book feels like. And I didn't get used to it after years of reading on the Kindle.
The page numbers on the Sony don't vary when you change font size. How much of one page is on one screen varies. Page 54 is page 54 is page 54.
I don't know what the pages correspond to because I don't own any ebooks and dead tree versions of the same book. I don't really care either. I just read for enjoyment, so I don't have to cite anything. But pages seem to go by at approximately the same rate as when I'm reading a paperback.
If you don't mind locations, then that's cool. I just find them distracting and disorienting from the reading experience I had for the past 30 years.