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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
*Anything* is better than the "Kindle location" system
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People are used to reading pages in books, so "page" is a comfortable metaphor for text quantity and placement within a document. But it's an imperfect term for measuring ebook content. I think that Kindle locations, coupled with its display of percentage complete, are an excellent system. After all, a location remains constant no matter the text size or screen orientation.
Of course, I also think that we, in the US, should have switched to the Metric System back in the 70's (or before), so I'm accustomed to holding an unpopular, minority opinion when it comes to systems of measurement.
That said, the ePub method or Kindle's method are both better than the old .lit method of repaginating every time the text display is adjusted. It was confusing to be on "page" 1177 on my Axim and 88 on my computer.