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Originally Posted by Pushka
OK, so if you have spent say, three hours and the kindle says you have read 25%, then surely this gives you exactly the info you need to know how much more of the book there is to read?
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You are misquoting or misunderstanding what I wrote - I said I find the % numbers useful in the absence of traditional page numbers. It isn't quite "useful enough" as a few people have said in terms of knowing exactly how far until the end of the book, but I'll happily take it in the absence of anything else to at least have a rough idea.
However it is the byte value ranges known as "locations" that we object to always being visible.
If someone finds them useful out there for "reference" purposes, well you are obviously in luck. For the rest of us who just read fiction books (surely the biggest Kindle market given the small screen/unsuitability for PDFs etc) I just don't want it visible.
The suggestion made by Starko above was a great one one of hiding ALL of that location/% information until it is asked for, and letting us have an extra line or two visible on the screen. Put it on the shift key or whatever and have it pop up like a dictionary does.
A simple option to get rid of it is all we are asking for. That way the people here justifying why they find it useful can continue happily on, and likewise the rest of use who have no desire to ever tell anyone else about some byte value of a Kindle book we were reading can happily live without it
