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Originally Posted by Ortep
So that means I will not touch this 'downgrade' with a stick. Page numbers are in my opinion something left from the late middle ages when we went from scroll to book. They are arteficial and useless in eBooks. But locations can come in handy to find the exact positon in a book. The Kindle crashes every now and then and than it usefull that I know that I was reading somewere arround position 1234.
But now they are gone from my view and I have to look them up.
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I see ... it is
not useful to remember one was on page 123 and go there once the book is open?
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Originally Posted by Exer
I'll add my voice to yours as well, that has always bugged me. But then again it was the same with many paper books that liked to throw in a huge glossary and/or previews of upcoming books at the back. I always try to read a little slower when the end is approaching, so I can enjoy it longer, but some books sneak the ending towards me like a ninja.
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Do Kindle books have Tables of Content (by location)?
I once had a book "end" abruptly several hundred pages early (the rest was notes and such), so now I check the T of C for the end of the actual text.
Disclaimer: I came to this thread as I've just gotten a K3 for my folks, not in a "I'm a Sony person ... so there!" manner.