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Originally Posted by SlowRain
I agree with that sentiment, as it currently stands, because we're used to it. But it gives rise to another issue: How many people are replying based on actual experience after trying this with a couple of books, and how many are just making assumptions based on how they think they would feel? I started this thread in the hope of getting people to try an experiment, albeit one that introduces a disorienting, restless, insane element. I'd hate to think people are critical of it based on a gut reaction rather than based on the actual effects.
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The thing I totally hated with my Gen 3 with the old firmware was that it was not possible to know how long a text was. That was especially true for short stories and it destroyed a lot of short stories for me.
I think that short stories and books currently are written with the assumption that the reader know how much is left of the story. Without that knowledge I think that authors will start to signal in another way in the text were the reader in the story are so you can properly appreciate the text.