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Old 01-19-2011, 04:37 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Of course they do. "Locations 840-47 of 14780" gives you precisely the same amount of information as would "Page 23 of 472".
I wouldn't say its the same information. The Location information does not appear to reflect what you see as you read. If I flip through a book and try to guess how many locations will pass as you move through the text I can't do it intuitively. But a page number on a physical book maps exactly to what you see. Move one page and you expect the number to go up by one.

I've no problem using a byte count to identify the exact location to use for reference - and its great that Kindle includes it. But I'd like showing it to be configurable so that I'm not distracted by it.
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