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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
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.
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Give it a while. It took a week or so for "locations" to become second nature to me. Now I've gotten to only care about the percentage and where the mark is on the position indicator. I don't care how many pages an ebook has. It's a different paradigm. Locations are, to the best of my knowledge, in increments of 128 bytes, which includes any formatting codes (italic, bold, etc.).
As has been discussed a number of times, the rationale for locations is that they don't change when the font size changes or when the Kindle is put in landscape mode. You always have a dead certain reference point, which you don't have with pages, which vary with the edition of a book, whether it's hardcover or paperback, etc. It can even vary with the country where it's published.