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Old 09-30-2010, 09:50 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Leep View Post
Unfortunately, what everyone is saying is that it's one big guess unless you want to sit with your calculator. I just make an approximation based on how far through the book I think I am. Than I guess again, and again. Ha! reminds me of structural engineering calculations in the old days.

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Exactly. It's not even something you can calculate, because locations count bytes you can't see.

One heavily formatted page (screen) of text can have many times more locations than the next page of text, even if they have the same number of words.

Read a book that was converted from something like Word, and you'll have a big mess of ugly code that proves the main reason why locations are so cryptic and why they won't ever become a standard.
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