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Originally Posted by BobLenx
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But lets face it, in a digital reading environment like the Kindle, the ONLY thing that makes sense is SCREENS - what screen am I on out of how many screens in the entire ebook (based up my current font settings). How obvious can that be? After all that is how a physical book works. Certainly this is true for over 90% of what most of us are reading on our Kindles - novels. If Amazon truly wants to make reading on the Kindle as close to reading a physical book as possible, then it is a no brainer - SCREENS should be the standard - not locations not ISBN pages and not percentage.
Yes I know changing the font settings will alter the screen count, but big deal, you simply have new screen numbers to track your progress. I don't know about anyone else, but I have been using ereaders for nearly four years now and I have NEVER EVER EVER changed the font size. I found what is comfortable for me and leave it there. And in those four years I have never had to get someone else to go to the same "page" or "location" I was on to discuss a book we are both reading - we simply discuss the book.
So lets put in a settings option that lets you select what the user wants displayed at the bottom of each screen - and please make SCREENS one of those options. And make the MENU button show us the other figures available - location, ISBN page, percentage.
UPDATE: I sent Amazon feedback on the 3.1 upgrade expressing my feelings on having a screen count added to 3.1 or to a future upgrade or if not possible then to the next generation Kindle. If you feel the same way, let them know.
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I too want to have screens. That seems logical and meaningful for an ereader. This may be computationally too expensive to calculate. To accurately determine the number of screens, you have to pretty much parse and format the entire book out. But hey, that's why you pay them programmers.