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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
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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You just need to read a few more ebooks and you will start to get your frame of reference - as I said before, I like to just drop the last digit on the location and say that is the number of pages.
So a book with an ending location of 6841, I would read as 684 pages. While this no way represents a true printed page number - it brings the number down to something reasonable and easily comparable between other kindle books.
What you have to keep in mind is that even if there were page numbers instead of locations, the 'pages' would still not be equivalent to the pages in a printed book. So, I don't see how that would give you any better frame of reference.
I find locations really can be used like page numbers in a printed book (granted with much higher numbers) - perhaps even more so than ebook pages which change when font size changes.