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Old 10-01-2010, 12:57 PM   #80
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Originally Posted by sirmaru View Post
Percentages beat pages and locations and Kindle WiFi gives that information directly.
Depends what you are looking for. I can think of a few cases where percentages are pretty much useless.

1. What if I want to get a sense for how 'big' a book is compared to the last one(s) I read.
2. What if I want to know about how much longer the book is?

Knowing that I am 17% into a book does not give me a great sense of how long the book is or how much more time it will take to read the remaining 83%. Unless, of course, I have been keeping accurate time of how long it took to read the first 17% and then break out my calculator.
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