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I am a new Kindle owner and currently reading my first Kindle book. Locations has been the least intuitive Kindle feature for me compared to my experiences on other ereader brands. It bothers me that I have no sense of how big my 6841 location-sized book is. I had to look up how many pages are in the print version for a comparison. Therefore, I agree it's all about the frame of reference. To me the ereader should immerse the reader in the text of the ebook without missing the feel or smell of a paperbook. So why not use a frame of reference like pages that is universally recognized by most people? I don't want to have to stop and calculate in my head that location 4542 is like 252 pages. That breaks the fluidity of the reading experience. If I am overseas, I don't walk outside and think it's a brisk 12C morning. I look at the weather forecast and relate it back to the temperature in degrees F that I am accustomed to.
On the other hand, I really like how the Kindle has the status bar at the bottom of the screen that shows chapter/section markings and the percentage of the book that you have read thus far. I am sure after several books I'll have a better sense of locations, but I'll also still probably be trying to relate back to my reference frame of pages.
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