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I like to know my progress in a book. If I'm on page 75 of 450 and am bored, I know it is time to stop reading and delete the book (this happens much too frequently) because there is too much left to struggle through. OTOH, if I'm on page 380 of 450 and I'm only now starting to get bored, I know that either I will continue to be bored or the story will pick up but that to this point the book has been at least interesting, and thus I'll finish reading it.
In addition, like others whio have commented this way, knowing where I am in relation to the "end" helps me decide whether I want to try to continue reading now or put it down and continue later.
Perhaps it is because I'm old, but I like the replication of the pbook reading experience when reading ebooks. It's probably just familiarity but it certainly has made my transition from p to e much quicker and easier.
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