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Originally Posted by kevinp
Imagine reading the book on my Android phone... turn the page 10 times and still be on the same page (at least my Sony's only on the same page for two page turns). I'll take the % complete any day!
People talk about being on the same page as their teacher or whatever. Is the majority of ereader users students? I would've guessed the majority to be casual readers like me.
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You can be on a % for far more than 10 page turns, so I don't see how that's better..?
Regarding your question about students, you're probably right that most users are casual readers right now.
But Amazon clearly sees benefit in making the Kindle appeal to more than just their current plain fiction-reading market, or they wouldn't be adding features and doing pilot studies seeking feedback in schools. (See my earlier post.)
How many people need the top 3 font sizes? Or facebook, or twitter...
Everyone has features they care more or less about, and it's awesome when people are so happy with the current models they need nothing more. But I think it's a smart of Amazon to invite and heed the more prevalent customer requests when they can, rather than just coasting and letting the competition provide features that can draw sales away.
I've even seen them change their positions pretty radically, e.g., remember when they said WiFi wasn't going to be added - not needed, etc.
The only thing I don't get is why they haven't gotten rid of the screensavers so many complain about. Can't be that hard to remove or change Emily Dickenson's pic.