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Originally Posted by sirmaru
If one places a paper bookmark in a pBook, one has TWO PAGES bookmarked, the left and right of the paper marker. If one folds the corner of a page in a pBook, one again has two pages marked, the front and back pages. One still does NOT know what paragraph he ended and where to begin.
Using Amazon locations. one marks the EXACT WORD of where one left off reading an eBook.
If one uses pages in Sony eBooks, one's page bookmark can cover from two to ten SCREENS of information. Its pure luck or memory for one to find out there where one left off reading.
For avid readers the Amazon Kindle location beats pages hands down.
After using locations on my Kindle WiFi I could never go back to using pages again. They are OBSOLETE.
If schools used Kindles as mandatory eReaders to save on the cost of paper textbooks, LOCATIONS would be an EXACT way of directing students where to read for their assignments. Chapters and pages would then become irrelevant.
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Unfortunately, this is not the case. Schools do not use kindles. The many schools that tried have all given kindles an F. And yes, pages may be obsolete, but hey, everybody has used them for decades. Giving people a comfort zone is not a bad thing. And for me, a college student, it may actually make the kindle the return-on-investment that was advertised. (Though of course I will never be able to use the kindle for my engineering or computer science textbooks- too many poorly formatted graphics.) It's just an easy fix that Amazon has neglected to implement- kind of like the screensavers. I might also put epub format into this category.