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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
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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Where do you see chapter/section markings? I have a Kindle WiFi LG 3 and only see percent read, location number and total locations in the book.
If I was going to cite references, I would start with Amazon Kindle Location 408 and then just use 1002, 2009, etc. One could also use AKL 5006 as well if many books including pBooks were referenced.
For comparisons one could always get the number of pages in a pBook from the Amazon site. I use that number combined with the price to sort books on my wish list to maximize the number of pBook pages / dollar cost to choose my eBook purchase from my Wish List which could include hundreds of equally valuable eBooks for me to read.
So far as the value of printed pages while reading, I always used to divide my current page number by the total pages to get the percent read at the moment. That number is already calculated and shown at the bottom of each eBook location which makes it a lot more convenient than doing the calculation in my head.
I used to use the Sony PRS 900 and their page numbers each encompassed many screens which made them really unusable to find where I was located specifically.