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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
So what printed page is Sony's page number based on? Hardcover? Trade Paperback? Mass Market Paperback? US version or UK?
I just don't get people's beef with locations at all. They give you a quick and easy way to determine exactly where you are in a book. What good would it do to give you the corresponding "page number" of a version of the book that you're NOT currently reading?
A page number is a reference point in the book you are reading. A location number is a reference point in the book you are reading. Is the main beef really all about terminology?
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That's pretty much what I was thinking.
Clearly, the REAL solution is...Word Count. Each page should be "numbered" by the first word on the screen, as exhibited. The "number" would be that word's numerical position relative to the first word of the first sentence of the first paragraph of the book. Thus, the first screen of text would always be "1" since that would be the number of the first word in the book.
Of course, things could get a bit unwieldy halfway through the book. So after ten thousand words, we could start over, using the alphabet to indicate a ten thousand word cohort. So the first ten thousand words would be a1 through a9999, then we'd progress to b1 through b9999, c1 to c9999, and straight on till sunrise.
Or we could use locations...