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Originally Posted by tribble
I guess a decimal with high precision would suffice, but its not intuitive to a user.
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A 1-decimal percentage is good for over 99% of all books.
Also, I find percentage much more intuitive than page numbers for e-books, webpages, and in general everything that doesn't have a fixed page size.
If there is a "jump to"-command in an e-book reader, I want it to use percentage.
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Originally Posted by tribble
Pagenumbers should also give you some indication of the size of the book.
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For that I'd much rather have a word count. Not at the bottom of the reading page (I really don't need it, or even want it, when I'm reading the book), but by the title (e.g. at the beginning of the book and also beside the book titles in the "library").
A letter count might be even better, once you get used to it. A word count is somewhat dependent on the language (e.g., a book in finnish have far fewer words than the same book in swedish or english). Although a letter count is also somewhat dependent on the language, it'd still give a more precise picture of how long the book is.
Or you could combine them, e.g. "101k / 564k" to indicate that
Ender's Game has ~101,000 words and ~564,000 characters.