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Old 09-30-2010, 05:10 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by gca3020 View Post
Anyway, I think my greatest takeaway from these locations vs. pages threads is that for a quick conversion, just divide by 10. E.g. location 2046-52 is really page ~204.6. Why Amazon couldn't just do this from the get-go, I don't know, since it would probably save hundreds of virtual trees worth of message board posts.
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Originally Posted by foghat View Post
Yep. Divide by 10. Even easier, just drop the last digit.
just felt i needed to add a caveat: this shortcut refers solely to the ebook "pages" without any connection to its dead tree version.
for instance i have a kindle book with 5870 locations but amazon says the print version only has 384 pages so we can safely say you can't equate one with the other.
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