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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I don't know if you can create one "location index" that would harmonize across the existing file formats. If you can, that will reduce the complexities significantly.
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You can't, because locations measure the file's underlying code. Those will be different between formats and between editions.
The location system seems all cool and cutting edge, but it is not the future. The future in ebooks is in more academic use and enhancements. That means more and more hidden code.
Even now, you can see location counts repeatedly jumping all over the place in some books, from 8 locations on one screen to 40 locations on the next, even when the visible text on the screens looks about the same.
That's an indisputable UI 101 fail. Like a browser scroll bar that minutely registered the page source instead of the page itself.
Whatever issues there are with any implementation of pagination, Locations never were the future some people think they are. The future is in improving UI and in more highly formatted ebooks, neither of which are consistent with the location system.
Amazon knows this. Jeff Bezos said it almost a year ago. The only thing that surprises me about this update is how fast they managed to do it.