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Originally Posted by baccilus
Having Percentage with 2-3 places of decimals will solve all the Page number problems.
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Not really.
People who want page numbers want them for a variety of reasons (some more reasonable than others), and these requirements are in some conflict with each other.
- some people want the 'familiarity' of page numbers, don't care about whether these are absolute references, just want to know how many times they need to click Next to get to the end of a book.
- some people want page numbers that correspond with a particular print edition (for citation purposes)
- some people can't get used to Location numbers and need something else (like your high precision percentage) to measure reading progress
- some people like things the way the are and don't want anything to change
So in addressing these requirements, Amazon needs to be careful.