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Originally Posted by foghat
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.
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Thank you for the advice. Yes, I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually. I'm just going to have to shift my thinking. I still like my Kindle regardless!
I think it's the large quantity that throws me off. Why not have a tenth of the locations? Most people are used to paperbooks with page quantities of hundreds and not thousands. It doesn't bother me that the number of ebook pages would not be the exact same as a paperbook. After all paperbooks come in many sizes and font formatting too. Yet people still have a general sense of a "page". I am also used to reading ebooks in the EPUB format. And, EPUBs can adjust font size without affecting the total number of pages. Also if I open an EPUB on my 6" reader and then also on my 7" reader, Page 97 is Page 97 on both devices regardless of screen size or font size. Since the Kindle is not my only ereader, it's just more difficult to convert my brain to thinking of locations only.