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Originally Posted by astra_lestat
Could you clarify this please?
1. the Kindle gives you "location" and a progress bar
What do you mean "location"? The way Sony is doing it page 117 of 967 seems to be the most natural way of representing "location". Before reading reviews on CyBook I could not even imagine it might be different.
2. page turns on the Kindle are slightly faster
even faster than on 505, correct? I suspected it would be the case though.
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It looks like every 2-3 lines in a book is considered a location. So a book is divided into thousands of locations. On any given "page", instead of a page number, a "location" is displayed. Early in the book, the location might be: 112-120, which means that the page you are viewing contains those locations. The total number of locations is NOT displayed. So you don't get "location 112 out of 2450". Instead there is a progress bar along the bottom of the page, which allows you to gauge relative progress through the book.
Page turns do feel slightly faster on the Kindle, although when I've done side-by-side comparisons I get inconsistent results. Neither device turns the page at the same speed every time. However, my unscientific tests have them very close, with the Kindle occasionally, but not always faster.
p.s. I'm back to being restonreader instead of bluemoon. again, sorry about that.